I’ve been a big ball of stress lately. My dayjob won’t pay us on time, and I’m still sick from having quit smoking. (It’s been a week — the longest I’ve gone in a while). I’ve been trying to spread smiles throughout town by putting stickers up at random. It’s fun to see, days later, which ones have survived.*Spent tonight catching up on paperwork and “to-do” Internet stuff. Was delighted to see that the message is spreading. Check out the green sticky towards the middle of the monitor.

(You can post a sticky too, if you want).

*Wish the morons over at Mack Camera could get their shit together. They’ve had my digicam in the shop for over a month. Fighting with them now, as they say it is not covered under warranty. Would love to start documenting my sticker installations and posting them on Flickr, as I started to when I did my first stencil project in town (with spray-chalk!)

 

(Then the camera stopped taking pictures)

Lets get something straight. Papyrus is not an acceptable font anymore than Comic Sans is. Got it? I don’t want to have to say it again.

The Blue Moon, a bar where I ate upon my return from Glacier.

Waterfall near McDonald Creek

At Avalanche Lake

Going to the Sun Road is under construction.

Good food to be had near Baab, Montana.

Sunrise near Many Glacier.

View from hike to Grinnell Glacier

Grinnell Glacier

Red Algae near Grinnell Glacier

Evidence of bacteria colonies near Grinnell Glacier

brand ‘em.

Out here in Montana, we do things the old fashioned way. Like take film pictures. Here’s one of the branding about which I posted a while back.

So, el Jefe sent me a beautiful, albeit beat up, manual camera recently. It had a strange “quick load” feature to it that I could not figure out. Took it to the camera shop, he showed me how to load the film. And the shutter isn’t firing. To have it fixed will be more than it’s worth, and I haven’t had a chance to pull it apart yet and figure out what’s wrong with it.

BUT.

I did the math. My camera phone costs $0.25/image to use, which, multiply that by 24 is about the cost of having a roll of film developed. Ever since I acquired then camera phone, I have avoided using it because I figured I would go overboard and it would cost me more than I wanted to spend.

But, after I had a look at the real cost involved, I decided, what the hell.

So, the image quality is less than great, but here are few recent adventures.

Before I climbed the fence and ignored the NO TRESPASSING sign, I noticed a wall of steel painted like a subway in NYC. At the end of the wall, was a posting placed there by the owner of the wall, granting permission to those who paint the wall.

So I meant to hang out at the river this weekend and decided to use a different access (or, what I thought was an access) than I usually use. Needless to say, there was no access. What I found instead was the old Prescot Lumber Mill, closed down in the 1970’s. Abandoned buildings. Heaven.

“Toy” was a switchbox on the ground in a building meant to house flatbed trucks as they loaded and unloaded lumber for the mills.

More photos forthcoming.