Wednesday, October 04, 2006

I can't believe I'm doing this shit again

But I wrote this last Monday and that cracked open the gate, and here I am going through the six hundred twenty seven megabytes of pictures I took last weekend and suddenly I wondered: Damn, what am I going to do with all this crap?

Post it, that's what. Or some of it.


This is what Lake Oroville looked like after we hauled Boy Scouts and their baggage for seventy five miles through some of California's most unattractive terrain, up Highways 65 and 70, past undersized new subdivisions that look scummy and used up even before anyone has moved in thanks to all the dust and firesmoke. The sun set as we drove across the dam, a fiery red ball dropping behind the western foothills, laughing for unknown reasons; and the half moon being pulled after lent a silvery sheen to the unnaturally smooth waters. After loading a boat we headed east towards the shadows deepening in the coves ahead, steep rocky hillsides glowering, behind us the streetlamps at the boat ramp shrinking into the water's edge and, one by one, going out.

6 comments:

Paula said...

Cool photo. I'm assuming the Blogsource blog is the official writing one, and I asked over there if you'd like to be linked. Or I can link this one, or neither. :)

Anonymous said...

Hurrah! I'm glad you're back. Oh, and nice pic!

Don said...

Yeah, I dunno yet. And now Blogger Beta won't upload images. I wrote 'em a technical complaint about it but it worked yesterday and will probably randomly work again before they get aroud to doing anything.

Anonymous said...

yeah, what do we link?

Paula said...

When I first started Orange Frosting, BB wouldn't let me upload pics either. I was so bummed cuz the point was to have dessert pics (not that I've actually posted that many, but still this was my idea then). I also write, and they replied with some incomprehensible directions. I ignored them all, and a few days later it started to work.

Paula said...

"wrote"