We got to Tahoe about 1:30, with little idea of what to do next; we hadn’t booked anything in advance except the airbnb we stayed in. The rooms were nice, but they didn’t come with a chapel or courhouse, so we went to the internet in search of one. I found a chapel just up the way that would be able to do it for us, for something like $300, which was about what I expected. The lady on the phone sounded like she was used to dealing with the likes of me. Unprepared, not knowing what was going on. Fortunately, Sophie was there. She’d also been internetting in search of a solution, and found that the Nevada side of the lake had a weekend county recorders office open, and we could go there to get a license for $50. So, we all got in our cars and drove across the border. We got lucky, in that there was a officiant there; she was doing a ceremony up the hill or something, but she would come back for us in half an hour and do our ceremony for $40. So she did, and we did, and that was that. Here is where the subtitle comes in; I was a bit busy at the time, and so others in the party took pictures with mine and sophie’s cameras, to varying degrees of success. All of the photos of the ceremony were a bit blurry or cutting vital parts of our anatomies, so none of thse are here. The group shots after were great, as were a couple of the portraits of me and sophie. Then there’s the cake cutting picture from that night, where Sophie looks ready to kill, which is really one of my favorte pictures of her. I think someone implied that she was unabel to cut cake alone. At some point, later in the night, we decided to go down to the shore and look at the stars, which was pretty nice. Cold as all hell, but nice.
Posted on 2013-12-30T06:19:29Z GMT
So, me and Soph had to have two weddings… there was a snafu with the paperwork in oklahoma, all my fault. Anyway, it was a good excuse to go back to Tahoe. Everything about this weekend was pertty beautiful, so I’m cutting it into several posts. No deep thoughts today, because it’s sunday funday.
Posted on 2013-12-29T23:06:44Z GMT
the number of times I’ve started a post title with ‘fuck’ is, in fact, pretty large. I blame it on society. B&W is awesome, and I think it was a much needed break from what I was doing, in order to get a better idea of where I’m going as an artist. Strip down, simplify, and don’t fuck around with triviality for a while. But then today, I was editing these photos, and I clicked the one of the woman in the orange caot over to color for a second, just to see, and I realized that I was still seeing in color most of the time, and that may of these photos worked better in color. It would be a shame to hide something good for the sake of style. I can’t ignore the evidence of my eyes. So here, some fucking color:
Posted on 2013-12-28T20:01:38Z GMT
I may have talked about this, but with my new job, for some reason I find it harder to get up on time to take the ferry. So for a while there, I only had one form of commute, and it was boring, and my instageam likes fell way off. More recently, though, I’ve started ferry-ing again. It really is a lot nice way to start the day. much less crowded, never too hot, and as a result, a lot more civil. I brought this up to a fellow passenger, and they said, “Well, we’re all in the same boat.” I’ve been thinking lately about this idea that I got from N. Scott Momaday’s In the Bear’s House, where one of the characters says “All stories are true.” It’s a koan for me; there are a lot of way to approach the idea, and a lot of layers to it. Obviously not all stories are ture on their face, but they all tell us something. About the tellers, about ourselves, and hopefully, about the world. “Storyteller” isn’t far removed from “teacher”, after all. I wish I could remember a little more of the context around that statement from the book, but I loaned my copy of it out and never saw it again some years ago.
Posted on 2013-12-28T08:58:41Z GMT
after the pier, we went for a little hike. nothing strenuous, more of a nice coda to the day. there was this beautiful little stream at the halfway point. and then i took an accidental selfie, which came out ok.
Posted on 2013-12-25T22:05:21Z GMT
