Friday, June 12, 2009

I found my old tapes 88/365

I threw about 2/3 of them out. eliel took the Beatles and Black Sabbath, and I saved the Jethro Tull, Peter Gabriel and Bob Marley. I grabbed my only cassette player, I've had it for 22 years ever since walking through Kmart and spontaneously buying it. Popping in 'So', I hit play and waited through the pops, the hiss, the left and right channels fading in and out- til I noticed that the sound was not producing and one of the spindles wasn't turning. this is the tape owners nightmare, I knew exactly what to expect when I hit the eject button. spagetti string of tape wound up into the spindles. I was not as concerned as I might have been before cds. but I wanted it to work. I wanted to hear that old sound. so on to cds or to take a peek behind the aged plastic into the cogs wheels and frail rubberbanbs?

Friday, June 5, 2009

sharlean's mission call

samara, russia!

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

sharlean is 21!

...but she's still a kid at heart...!

Lion in the Tree

found this lion head in the overgrowth in the base of a tree...

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

watering hole

the parched desert animals gather round what little water remains...