Jack Hietpas, Cee, Galicia, Spain: Yesterday (Monday, October 2) marked one week since I arrived in Galicia, Spain. I’m living in Cee [that is say], a town of 7,000 people situated at the tip of the Ría de Corcubión, one of the dozen or so estuaries that indent the region’s verdant and rocky Atlantic coast. I absolutely love it here! Despite its population, the town’s maze-like streets are filled with a truly astonishing array of cafés, bars, restaurants, bakeries, supermarkets, and stores selling everything from electronics to clothes to stationery to home goods, giving it all of the convenience and liveliness of a dense, urban center. At the same time, you can walk ten minutes and be immersed in the countryside, in the midst of fields and forests. And the ocean is never more than a stones throw away. For me, it’s a perfect combination of lifestyles.
In this photo, down the hill and across the bay, you can see the old part of Cee, where my apartment is located. (It’s a beautiful fully furnished two-bedroom that costs me 330 euros a month!!) This picture contains so many of the elements that make this place distinctive: the hills, the fog, the beach, the ocean, the greenery, the density of construction, and the conglomeration of crumbling, pre-modern stone structures with new, utilitarian buildings.
Sarah Luther, Walkers Point, Milwaukee, WI: Last Friday, I shared my new street sign project Un Paseo al Agua as part of a larger tour of the Harbor District that included the School of Freshwater Sciences building. This photo was taken in an old industrial part of the building where students access the school's research vessel that explores the Milwaukee rivers and Lake Michigan. It is also a pretty amazing spot to view the Milwaukee skyline.
Melanie Holterman, Governor Dodge State Park, WI: Dragon Portal brought us back to camp, then vanished.
Lydia Milano, Lauraville, Baltimore, MD: My photo is from the tiny graveyard in my neighborhood of Baltimore. It’s called the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, and it’s right next to a lesbian "pleasure club and bar.” I wanted to take a picture of the mushrooms growing everywhere, I threw up a “peace” sign, I snapped the photo, and realized - my shadow looks like a snail! How funny! So that’s why it’s my photo of the week.
I like going on walks to the cemetery. There’s some benches in the shade. There is also an incredibly cute chapel in the middle.
Summer weather is having its last laugh this week - it’s 15 degrees above “the average normal temperature.” I hope Cee is as brisk and breezy as it looks! I love a little ocean spray. [JH: Sadly it's not, it's been unseasonably hot and humid here too.]
Liyan Zhao, Plymouth, WI: I’ve been seeing a lot of cranes and herons recently. Mel told me that cranes observe quietly for a long time and strike when the opportunity is right. Maybe some life wisdom these recent sightings are trying to impart. On my way back from the farm the other day, I saw this big group of sandhill cranes performing some kind of play ritual, flapping their wings and taking turns hopping up into the air and descending. Despite or perhaps because of the dreary weather, many animals were out and about that morning.
(You also missed a surprising flamingo sighting in Port Washington recently…much exciting bird news from this part of Wisconsin!)
Karuna Vikram, Cambridge, UK: This was my first full week at Trinity! Loads of rules, lots of ceremony, but also lots of really warm, smart, and chatty people!
Julia Gunnison, New York, NY: This is the only picture I've taken in the past week. It was on Friday, Sep. 29, when there was massive amounts of rain and flooding in NYC. I was on my way home from a couple screenings and the trains were experiencing a lot of delays and disruptions. My journey wasn't too bad, it certainly could have been worse, but it did feel like I was sitting in that train car forever, and the only thing keeping me entertained was this sleepy duo sitting across from me. The guy who is literally doubled over just cracked me up so much, and then right next to him, this other dude zonked out, mouth agape. They were channeling the mood of a dreary Friday pretty well. I'm not a very good surreptitious photographer so I couldn't capture them in their full glory, but you get the idea. You can also see my reflection between the subway map and the window.
Jack Tetting, Baltimore, MD: Hello to Jack and others!
First, Cee sounds like the perfect place for our mutual friend and digital host, Mr. Hietpas himself, so congrats on settling in and exploring!
This picture is from the final day of Artscape, an outdoor art festival in Baltimore, MD. This is the first time I’ve went because the last Artscape was in 2019 pre-Covid, a few months before I moved here. This snapshot shows some modern day jesters on stilts that were dancing to some local drum n bass. When I took the picture it was only the stilt walkers, me, and my partner Mack (we just celebrated one year together). Smoking a joint in the rain with a loved one and dancing with a giant baby was definitely something everyone needs. The festival had a great turn out given it was during a hurricane warning. Besides this, my favorite part had to be Make Studio. I volunteer with them occasionally and work with adult artists with disabilities that make some pretty sick work. Check out their website if you want some fairly priced masterpieces.
Eva Haubrich, Madison, WI: I was visiting some friends in Madison, and we racked up quite the bill at this Nepalese place called Little Tibet. It had been raining all day, we needed something comforting and warm. I got lamb curry and a tingmo, a fluffy steamed bun laminated with butter. Next to us two women had been discussing their favorite Christian band. One of them got chastised for saying the lead singer was hot even though he was married. Sinfully, they left two momos uneaten, feeling sorry for these steamed dumplings, we saved them before the waiter could clear the plates. I paid for our meal minus the two momos gratis and took a quick pic of the check for my friends to send what they owed later.
Kate Miller, Portones, Colombia: Mid-circle singing, captured by Nee during a body percussion/improvisation workshop led by Phoebe in Portones, a nearby town, with a group of very brave, very fun local people.
Saying goodbye to dear friends threesomes cat love curled up together guitar songs and stars popping out while we sink into rocks enveloped by their permanence and UFOs or maaaaybe satellites and moonlight that makes shadows and olive oil cake weddings with sticky goopy yellow maracuya dripping out of the fruit like glitter on eyes and more dancing than I’ve done in my whole life combined to techno and disco and reggaeton and 80's pop and classic rock and watching the sunrise from the taxi and uncontrollable tears and so many plans and feeling displaced like swimming in my blocked sinuses with salt water dripping down my t-shirt. How is it already October? Living in a time-warp where everyone who’s been lingers behind until nobody but the rock remembers our secrets.
Andrew Swant, Silver City, Milwaukee, WI: The photo I'm sending is from the alley behind our house. Our neighbor, Don Hoyt, passed away two months ago and a new family recently moved into his house. He was a projectionist at the Fox Bay Cinema (and a few other local theaters) from the late 60s until things went digital about 10 years ago. The new owners of the house put 60 reels of 35mm film from his collection in the alley and they were about to take it to the dump. So I listed them on Facebook Marketplace and within hours they were all gone, snatched up by various film weirdos around Milwaukee.
Amy Hietpas, Fox Point, WI: Finally found the elusive footbridge over the ravine in Fox Point. Absolute fall weather perfection. It is high! You can just see the lake beyond the trees.
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