Well, we made it through the first check in of summer here at Mount Hermon pretty much without a hitch.  I’m hoping things go really well this summer now that I’ve got one summer under my belt.

We did have a bit of an eventful last week though because of a large fire that was burning just about five miles from the camp.  I’ve already blogged about that and the photos are still up over on Flickr.

The last little bit of this update is in some ways the most exciting.  Tomorrow I’m going down to Vintage to put up photos for a show we are having for the next 6 weeks in the coffeehouse.  I’m excited about that since it will be the first ever public show of my photos in large numbers.  I had two photos in a show back at Christmas but this one is going to be just Matt and I.  We both have about 20 shots to put up.

So this was a little bit of a disjointed and scatterbrained update but Coffee Cat closes soon and, frankly, I’m having a little bit of trouble concentrating right now.  Well, on that note, later!

So I got up this morning and decided to do a little exploring.  I’ve been wanting to go over the hill to a place called Holy City for a while to see what is there.  Holy City is a utopian community that reached its height in the 1920′s and 30′s and is now largely abandoned.  I was hoping maybe to find a place that would make a good site for a future photo walk with Vintage.  Unfortunately, the only building that is really accessible to the public is an old garage.  The rest of the development is hidden behind a gate that says “NO TRESPASSING” in big bold letters.  If I was the more adventurous sort, I might press my luck and try to find a way in anyway, but I generally like to obey the law so it kind of nixed that plan.  Since I now found myself with not much else to do, I decided to drive back on the Old Santa Cruz-San Jose Highway.  It was a really nice drive on a bunch of windy two lane roads through the mountains.

After getting back over to this side of the mountains I headed over to Atlantis Fantasyworld and picked up some comics.  Between watching iFanboy and The Totally Rad Show I’ve decided my comic book collection and knowledge is the most neglected aspect of my geekness (ouch, Firefox spell check wants to change “geekness” to “meekness”).  I already picked up Volume 1 of Powers there last summer so today I added volume 1 of Preacher, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Invincible.  I’ve heard good things about all three so I’m excited to get home and start going through those.  I think if I had to choose between Marvel and DC I would side with Marvel but there is such a huge pile of back catalogue to go through it would take years to really get a grasp on it.  Instead I’ve decided to start out with some of the shorter run more independent type comics that I can actually get through.  They also seem to have a more adult nature to them, exploring morality and human nature in ways some more mainstream comics stay away from.

Anyway, I’m just waisting time at Coffee Cat right now.  I woke up at 9am this morning which left me with a lot more time than I’m used to on a Saturday.  So now it’s 3pm and I’ve run out of things to do.  I’ll probably go buy some girl scout cookies at Safeway and then head home to do some reading.  Anyway, later!

I’ve got the first 50 pics up on flickr.  I have 311 total to upload which is about 10% of the 3000 or so that I took.  That puts me right about where I thought I would be.  I still have a few to go through so the 311 number may grow a little but it will be right around there.  I’ve got a few pics to edit in Gimp before they are completely finished and I’m running everything through neat image (which only handles batches of 50 photos at a time) so it might be Tuesday or Wednesday before I’ve got them all up there but they’ll be there for sure by mid-week.  Hope you enjoy!

While it may be one of the more pointless adventures to be undertaken in public transportation, one thing is for sure. The SLUT has developed a cult following already, see here. . .

So I’ve got photos on display at two locations tomorrow.  I have one photo in the Santa Cruz Young Life auction and two photos in the Advent Conspiracy Art Show at Vintage Faith.  I’ll update with photos of both tomorrow.  Photos of photos, yeah!