JanieM
A year and a half ago, OTR brought Steve from Mendocino into my life as a photography mentor and picture editor. Over time we became friends, and out of that friendship came an invitation from Steve and his wife for me to visit them in California.
The trip was long postponed, partly because of Covid, but it finally happened in April. So I’m writing this post from a quiet room amongst the redwoods, where I’ve been welcomed like family. It’s my first trip out of Maine in more than two years and my first visit to California since the early nineties.
It was a spooky moment when I first walked into the house and saw a slideshow of my neighborhood in Maine on the monitor in the kitchen. Exhausted from two long bus rides, a night in a Boston hotel room, a cross-country flight, and a two-hour drive through wine country, I couldn’t quite take in the juxtaposition of where I was with where I had come from.
A lot of OTR posts, including some of mine, are about traveling far away from home. Seeing pictures of home while traveling far away threw me for such a loop that Steve changed the slideshow for the first couple of days until I could get my bearings.
Get my bearings I did, and I took a few pictures, too.
Those will come next, but in the meantime, here’s more Maine.
(This is a re-post after “the unpleasantness.” It’s nice to be getting back to normal.)
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