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Less electronics, more classic technology feel, manual gear box, and was less than half of the price of the next generation - and this one looks really pretty in blue.
Less than two weeks to go, time to start taking pictures of all the stuff I noticed throughout the year that tickled my "Hmm, that might make a good picture someday" radar -- like these pinecones in the tree in my boys' schoolyard!
LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 14: (L-R) Peter Wasilewski, Buddy Schaub, Vinnie Fiorello, Chris DeMakes and Roger Manganelli of Less Than Jake perform on stage at Shepherds Bush Empire on February 14, 2014 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Marc Broussely/Redferns via Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Peter Wasilewski; Buddy Schaub; Vinnie Fiorello; Chris DeMakes; Roger Manganelli
Usually it deflates as the bird bows down then expands with the upward bow. I love the extended pinnae in this shot.
Hemphill County, TX
April 2012
History of the Stanford Inn Eco-Resort
A short review of the less obvious aspects of two decades of innkeeping. Steppin’ Out Magazine publisher Jeanne Francis asked us if we wanted to represent the “real” Mendocino for their “creative landscapes.” issue. We agreed to be featured and the following article was published. We are re-publishing it here, because the story is about what has become most important to us at Stanford Inn Eco-Resort. - Jeff & Joan Stanford
Nurturing Energies At Mendocino Stanford Inn
“When we came here twenty-three years ago we had no idea the twists and turns our lives would take,” recounted Jeff Stanford who with his wife and partner, Joan, are owner-innkeepers of the Stanford Inn by the Sea in Mendocino. “We had fallen in love with Mendocino as so many others,” Joan added, “but never expected to live here.”
The story of how they came to purchase Big River Lodge, now the Stanford Inn, is another story, however, their beginning was auspicious.
The sellers Art and Katherine Williams, who still live in the 1850s farmhouse in front of the inn, provided significant and decisive financial help.
The Stanfords started modestly moving into a 375 square foot guest room, doing most of the work themselves - from housekeeping to installing fireplaces. In just two years they had two children and were waking each morning to serve their guests breakfast
“We wanted to create something special and along the way the land began to influence us.” Jeff shares stories of experience with energy. “This is real stuff; not something I read about or sought out, but something experienced and then researched.”
“Transformation takes place here - physical, emotional and spiritual. While we were transforming the buildings and the landscaping, it was as if we had opened up a vein of co-creative potential. It is a manifesting process,” Joan explained. “We love living things and it seemed natural to solve landscaping problems with organic gardens.” Jeff and a close friend began digging double dug garden beds, following the work of John Jeavons. He urged those working in the gardens to become sensitive to the energies there.
Jeff is purposefully vague about working with earth energies. “I am not trying to make this mysterious. It isn’t,” he explains. “What I can tell you is how this ‘working’ manifests: When we adjusted the footprints of buildings we planned to build to save a Bishop pine, two smaller trees which were in the way of construction just fell down. There was no storm. It meant for us to go ahead.”
However, Jeff is not an ordinary environmentalist. He had mixed feelings regarding the creation of the new Big River State Park in spite of being involved in the effort. “It’s unfortunate that rather than insure healthy, sustainable logging practices, we are forced to remove land from forestry altogether to preserve it.” He argues that it is irresponsible to damage a forest’s biodiversity and over-log. “Taking land out of production here puts incredible pressure on other timber areas.”
Over the years, the Stanfords have worked to develop fulltime jobs rather than the part time jobs characteristic of a seasonal resort area. Catch A Canoe, the Inn’s canoe and kayak livery operated for only seven months of the year until Jeff added & Bicycles, too!, a bike shop, permitting the staff to become year around employees.
The creation of their California Certified Organic Farm created full time jobs and now supplies the Inn’s restaurant, The Ravens, the area’s only organic vegetarian/vegan restaurant, creating more jobs.
“We get a lot of people who come to work here because we are vegetarian, organic. They believe this is a Shangri La. It isn’t. It is hard work,” Jeff explained when asked why some people “don’t make it.” “When I began experiencing earth energies, I read a variety of books including Dorothy MacClean’s description of working with angels at Findhorn, Scotland. Our angels, if you want to call them that, are not etheric, they are hard workers: ‘buff,’ if you know what I mean. They’re tough and those who work with them need to be tough, too.
Staff often becomes part of the family and Jeff and Joan encourage them to develop interests and aptitudes and to finish school and go on to college. For years they have worked formally and informally with the schools. Joan works in the schools addressing issues of self esteem and peer counseling. The inn provides work experiences, training in everything from cooking to bike mechanics. Students have come to work to fulfill requirements for graduation or simply for money and some have stayed. One began working as a gardener when he was fifteen. Eventually, Jeff made him manager of the new & Bicycles, too! He helped grow the business, became an expert bike mechanic, and worked in the community to raise money for a skate park which unfortunately has yet to be constructed.
The Stanfords look at their operation as a garden or farm. They understand the energies they experience to be nurturing and they believe they must reciprocate by nurturing not only the gardens, but the people with whom they work and the community. They provide meeting rooms at no charge for local non profits and public agencies such as the school district; canoes for local schools’ recreational and educational programs; and their gardens for the local 4-H club where the kids learn propagation, planting, and composting from the staff.
Some teachers bring students who have difficulty in traditional schools to experience how the Stanfords work with nature with the idea that a return to nature is healthful.
This is life at the Stanford Inn.
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Took off the "SUZUKI" stickers since they don't pay me for advertising and also removed some graphics from the rear fairing. Looks much cleaner.
The idea of doing this came about completely by accident when I was setting up for a shot and accidentally hit the shutter button. I love how striking the simplicity is, and the slight blue hint at the bottom of the glass, it's almost like I've contained an ocean in a glass. I'm sure with the joys of photoshop you could make it look like that even more so. (SOOC)
Former Pay Less drugstore which was located at 1140 Blossom Hill Rd. in the Pueblo Plaza in San Jose, CA. This Pay Less opened February 1968, and there was originally a PW market next door. During its time as Rite Aid, all of the Pay Less decor and fixtures remained. Rite Aid closed this store in March 2008, and it was demolished that summer for a new Whole Foods market.
Original floor.
Robert Frost said to take the path less traveled. I found this Cool Car in Salado Texas on one of the back roads.
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I'm convinced this was &will be the only decent show to play in Daytona while I live here.
No photo pass, just worked my magic to get as close to the stage as possible. Eventually, I got to the barricades, but not until Reel Big Fish.
I have to say, for a Daytona show, this was perfect. Both bands I've been wanting to see for the past couple years, but I've never been able to because one reason or another. It was pretty sweet. If only I had a photo pass...
March 9, 2018 We had our second “NorEaster” in less than a week (On March 7, 2018), and this time there was some snow on the ground. What better of an excuse for taking a late winter walk down the High Line. Once again I was astounded by the amount of new construction work along the west side of Manhattan. It seems as though with each walking tour, the landscape is changed once again. Where there was empty space six months ago, there is now glass and steel rising to the sky. All of Manhattan’s west side is experiencing a rebirth as the once gritty pier lined, and industrial west side is being changed into office and apartment space for the rich. The High Line seems to be just as crowded during a late winter day as during the height of the summer tourist season. The Hudson River linear park as a favorite place for joggers, dog walkers, and simply getting out for a breath of fresh air, however on an early March day the winds can still be brisk. As one heads south the new World Trade Center complex, continues to rise from the ashes like a glistening Phoenix. This is a great walk to take, perhaps a good distance, but there is much to see along the way.