Or: Just Can’t Wait to Get on the Road Again
Photos by jkh_22: T.; J.; Le chemin.
The fourth (and perhaps fifth and sixth, if you’re into word counts) Guest Blogger post is from Jenni Holder (jkh_22), who loves (really) the regular road trips through France she takes with Tallulah (3 1/2), Jasper (13 months), and the baby daddy, fgcwjh (MD). I hope you enjoy her travelogue from this weekend—I couldn’t put it down. —along
It’s Thursday. We’re in the car on our way to Strasbourg, and I have 48 hours to finish one of my “blogger-wanna-be” posts. The kids are sleeping in their car seats, my batteries are running low—and so are the laptop’s. Ha ha. I know sometimes I can be long-winded, but ever since along asked me last week to write on command, I’ve had a sudden case of blogger-block. I don’t wanna-be anything except asleep right now. It’s been a long week in quarantine avec Tallulah à la Chicken Pox, and I’m already dreading Jasper’s strike (protest would be my normal word of choice, except I live in France now) against sleeping in the portable Pack ’n’ Play. I can’t just let him cry it out, either, because it would wake my sister-in-law’s entire family, with whom we’ll be staying for three nights.
I surprise myself when I actually ask fgcwjh, who’s driving, what he thinks I should blog about. He surprises me even more when he suggests “road trips.” Surprising since at this moment I can’t imagine that subject would be, shall we say, in his interest. Why? Because we’ve been bickering in the car since we left Lyon… that’s nearly three solid hours, and we have at least two to go. What’s more, we do this EVERY time we go on a road trip. Is he really prepared for me to air that dirty laundry out the car windows? As tempting as this idea seems, I benevolently resolve to search elsewhere for inspiration.
T.; J.
I look back at Tallulah, whose neck is bent at such an angle that her chin is touching her belly button.
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Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, from dangerpaws
From Annie Sollinger (dangerpaws) comes the third in our Guest Blogger series: Dioramas! Enjoy. —along
Fotologgers, by and large being cultural types, love museums. The group log museum_world is testament to this: clicking through the archives offers myriad windows on the collections of museums around the world—
showcasing art, science, religious artifacts, ethnic histories, you name it. One appeal of shooting in galleries like this (sometimes even against the rules!) is that museum lighting is so perfect—a welcome respite for those of us who are used to making do with whatever light is available. Of all the museum exhibits I’ve seen, the ones I love most are the habitat dioramas you can find in hundreds of institutions worldwide—though the ones nearest and dearest to me live at the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City. They all photograph so well!
American Museum of Natural History, New York, from gardengal
From nihilist
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Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, from ribena
We’re very lucky to publish the second in our Guest Blogger series, this fantastic overview by Robin Dennis (ribena) of what we here in the U.S. can do next month—and from here on out—to combat global warming. —along
Right now, we are at a critical moment in changing U.S. environmental and energy policy in order to curtail climate change. NASA’s top climate scientist, James E. Hansen, tells us we have ten years before it is too late to make the necessary shifts, and the public is persuaded of the scientific truth: my Republican mother reported that she cried while watching An Inconvenient Truth and hopes Americans can find a way to push for these changes, for the planet’s and our own sake.
Two days ago, Al Gore testified before Congress regarding global warming, but politicians answer first and foremost to their constituents. There are the usual emails and phone calls and letters that will demonstrate that our leaders must take real action. There is also a national day of action, on April 14: Step It Up.
An Alaskan glacier, from glaciergirl1
Currently, more than a thousand Step It Up events, in all fifty states, are lined up, and it’s easy to find one near you on the site. (You can search by zip code or by state for existing events—or organize a new one.) An essential ingredient of the action day is documentation—photos and videos of events, small and large—something Fotologgers are really good at.
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Please welcome Heather Maxwell-Hall (beebs), who brings us the first post in a series by guest bloggers this week. —along
From New York to London to Cardiff to Austin, Texas, fleabilly, aka Ray Lewis, has an incredible talent for shooting dreamlike images that capture the mystery and eccentricities of everyday life. The beautiful, haunting photograph above is from last summer, and it’s been swimming around in the back of mind my ever since. Ray’s been a fave since I saw this gritty yet elegant shot on his Fotolog, way back in August 2003:
Here are just a handful of other fleabilly images that rock my world. Check out his archive and his personal site—there’s so much more wonder. —beebs
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