THIS Rhett Butler Will Never Die

Woke up EARLY this morning to take my mom to San Francisco to meet her friend Ellen. It was an experience different for me than any I've had in a long time. We went to a museum; The Legion of Honor to see the display of paintings by female impressionists. It's probably been over 30 years since I've been inside the LoH, and if I had thought about it better, I would have taken more photographs of the day than I have to show you here. I'm just so out of practice taking photos with my phone, or of thinking in a documentary way of mind. Rodin display room in Legion of Honor. Green Apple Book Store on Clement Street Irish Pub on Clement Street with a great deal on Pabst & Jamesons!

My photo shoot with Niki was much earlier this year, in March. She was the first model that I had found and made contact with at Model Mayhem . She lives in Stockton and at the time we first started talking about doing a shoot together, Stockton didn't seem that far away. I think it was actually February when we first made contact. She had made a comment on one of my photos. We had planned on doing a shoot on pretty short notice, like in March... but as some of you loyal readers will remember I fell into a pretty black depression during March and April. I contacted her again in early May and we had our shoot scheduled by the end of the month. It was a sunny day, temp in the low 80's and I was doing a dog walking job at the time. I remember that the timing was a bit critical in that I could only leave the dog alone in its house in San Ramon for 4-5 hours. I had to jet out to Stockton, do the shoot and then be back in San Ramon in time to take the dog for another walk. ANYWAY.....