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While in Basin Montana last fall I stayed in The Stone House.  My host was the musician M. J. Williams.  This is a photo of her in her home which is right next door to the Stone House. 

I’ve been working on moving the Photo of the Day archives over into this PHP database.  It’s turning out to be a slow, and labour intensive process—but I plan to do it a little bit at a time.  You’ll notice already that there are several entrees all the way back from November of 2000.  That was when the Photo of the Day first started.  There were many hundreds of entrees since then, and eventually all of them will be searchable in the new PHP format. 

Summer (my wife and designer) have been working on a whole new web site with all new content.  I’ve also started transferring the archived Photos of the Day into the new blog format.  That is a project that is going to take quite some time as each entry needs to be moved individually.  In the mean time I thought it was high time to start blogging regularly again.  I did it for so many years, it’s amazing how easy it is to get out of the habit. 

I’ve been very busy these past months, so while the new site is coming together I’ll start posting some of the images I’ve captured during my course of work. 

Pictured above is Montana Artist Nan Parsons.  She was photographed in Basin, Montana (pop. 300) sitting in her home.  It is a cabin without electricity she built with friends over 30 years ago on the outskirts of town.  I spent about a week in Basin last fall.  Nan is one of the founders of the Montana Artist Refuge.

On Friday I friend got us tickets to see Portland’s legendary drag show cabaret Darcelle XV MC’d by the 78 year old Darcelle herself.

While there our friend’s uncle Robert had a close encounter with another famous Portland drag queen, Poison Waters.

Last March when then Senator Obama he came through Portland fairly early in the primary season.  He appeared with New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson who used the opportunity to offer his endorsement. 

So now we are 22 days into a new year.  We have a new president, and I’ve got a new blog, and a whole new site in the works.  So this should mark the end of the long absence of the Photo of the Day.  I’ve been doing a lot of different thing these past few months and have a lot of images to post. 

I was recently working on a story about dogs and gentrification for my local paper, the Portland Sentinel (read it here http://www.portlandsentinel.com)

One of he people I met was Jamie, pictured above.  He works as a mail carrier in Northeast Portland.  Recently he was severely injured when he was mauled.  He says the dog that did it still lives on his route. 

Another man I met said that he never puts his dog on a leash just to prove that nothing is going to happen.

Not owning a dog myself, I’ve been pretty unaware of the tension and fear that dogs in the city can cause.

Sorry for missing posts last week—I’ve been sick, but am feeling much better now.