rDay Twelve-Hundred-One: Part I

Roused from bed at 6am by Kim and Charlie, I submitted to the program and joined in for an early morning dash to Harris Park and the South Fork of the Walla Walla River.    This was new territory and we struck out through the country roads between WaWaWA and M-F.  My demeanor took an upward surge as we found ourselves in the middle of an almost surreal, desert-like landscape wonderfulness just a few miles out of town.  Windshield photography was invoked.   Part II, into the mountains and Harris Park itself, some twenty miles distant, will have to come later.

1969: Wilt Chamberlain and the Lakers

Further unpacking from our recent move revealed this (among many more) photograph — if you can call it that, given the horrendous lighting conditions, my slow and unsharp lens and the work I had to do to coax any detail to speak of out of the thing — taken during my attendance at a 1969 L.A. Lakers game.  I’m pretty sure it shows Wilt Chamberlain doing some damage against the Boston Celtics.  I saw some of these live games from time to time as one of my co-workers had season tickets.