late december autumn

[hamilton ave between bryant & ramona]

believe it or not, this is not another 

photo from the archives: this is city hall 

on the 29th of december. 

not exactly a winter wonderland, is it?

guess how many millions

[near downtown]

forgive me: i'm experiencing something 

of a new-photo drought; here's one from 

the archives, taken in early october:

a fairly typical palo alto house

(i love the shapes and delicate colors on this one)

illuminated

[memorial church, stanford]

façade with a halo of sunlight

ice cubes

[gates bldg reflected on hewlett bldg, stanford]

normally at this time of year, i would
use "ice cubes" to refer to the weather
somehow. but it's not quite that cold here.
just an aesthetic reminiscence in this
building (do you sense a theme in the names
on this part of campus?)

sticks and stones

[main quad, stanford]

scarlet foliage glowing

on an autumn morning

meet me on the roof

[rooftop of green library viewed from hoover tower, stanford]

last week of classes: need a
break from studying? tiptoe
away from your carrel hidden
in the corner, slip between the
shelves past vonnegut, vollmer,
vizenor, vidal, then glide down
the aisle between udall through
updike and hemingway through
hinton, steinbeck through
stowe and faulkner through
fitzgerald, and sail up the spiral
staircase into the gazebo crown, out
through liquid french windows and a-
light on the sundeck. i'll be
there.

stay a while

[cowper inn bed & breakfast, cowper st at forest ave]

over a century old, elegant
craftsman style, exuding
cabin-in-the-woods and yet just
around the corner from
our bustling little downtown
(anyone want to come visit?)

is this place real?

[main quad, stanford]

i mentioned to a colleague that it is sort of
funny that i ended up at a university again
just when i thought that i would take a
break from that world, not set foot on
a college campus for at least a few
years. his reply: "sure, but stanford is
more like a country club than a university!" i mean,
just look at it.

we shall see that it is all matter

[first united methodist church, hamilton ave at webster st]

liquids and gases, i learned
in elementary school, expand
to fill their containers; how then
does spirit behave in such
a curiously defined space?

All spirit is matter, but it is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes; We cannot see it; but when our bodies are purified we shall see that it is all matter.

Doctrine & Covenants 131:7-8