

Look at that sky. Is it the apocalypse for real this time?
Look at that sky. Is it the apocalypse for real this time?
I took a little walk through the town today to look at the old Victorian buildings. It only took about 20 minutes – this is a very small town! A drunk homeless man shouted at me from across the street and then asked me about the weather. I snuck a shot of a farmer driving his mower down the road. Otherwise, there is not much going on here… It feels like time is moving in ultra-slow motion.
I am happy to report that Wallowa Food City has toilet paper! Get it while you still can!
My “real” camera has been put away for a couple of years. I dug it out and found there were some photos still on there. I remember this trip and my photography at the time. I remember feeling creatively frustrated. I had this desperate pent-up need to express something intangible through my photography, but nothing would translate the way I envisioned it inside my head. So I released the pressure by stepping away from my camera for a while.
How good it feels to hold its heavy weight in my hand again. Let’s see what happens now.
We are in the wild and wonderful Wallowas… If we must be stuck somewhere for a while, I love that it is here.
There isn’t as much space and privacy here as there was at Hot Lake, but we are really close to the mountains for hiking and skiing which makes it worth our while. We’ve set ourselves up to be here for a month. A month seems like such a long time to be in one place when you’re living life on the road, but “sheltering in place” means we can’t just pick up and leave any time we want to. There is a certain security and safeness in being able to call this place our home for the next four weeks.