done

Hmmm, my server is maxed out so I can't post any more pics for the time being. The trip ended abruptly and less than 6 hours later I was on my feet for 3 - 11 hour days on photo shoots and I am beat, still haven't unpacked completely, the words are slipping away, the smile fading, today I could be found gazing out at the grey rain falling without stirring even slightly. I hear them calling my name but I tune it out and focus on the dry Arizona sun and cacti popping up around my shoulders, the friendly strangers telling me their secret locations and directions for me to drive there so that I can shoot these sacred places. Photographs with Vegas magicians and Tombstone cowboys as I clutch them tightly waiting for Hubby to focus and snap....the painful digital delay. Mineral baths warm, warmer and scalding hot we walk around in our robes all day with feet dangling in the steamy mineral brew, European breakfast plates on our laps. Everyone mingling in the quiet buzz of desert. Long sighs and shooting smiles across the dusty plains to your gaze. The Crand Canyon was burning in controlled flames and I shot it in the freezing cold, hands going numb and limbs convulsing. 26 rolls of film in total which I am about to scan.

Last night I went to bed with three (yes 3 really) milky grey tear stains on my right cheek. I watched them fall from the bathroom mirror as I got ready for bed and chose not to wash that part of my face, little did I know that I would awake to find that the city stole them while I slept and spent the entire day pouring that grey water on me all damn day long, socks soaking and cold around my little toes.