Memories and Giveaway Winner Announced!

I know you all have been anticipating this for a week now, but the April giveaway winner is...

Bill Delano. He's a fantastic filmmaker out of New Orleans who I met in a small mountain town in the Dominican Republic and traveled with and even photographed a while back, you should check out his site. And as for the next giveaway, it will have to wait until I come back from my summer travels.

In other news, it's snowed the last two days. Yes, snowed. Thanks, end of April snow storm. I found these pictures from Christmas this last year in San Antonio. The first from my favorite record store back home, Hogwild Records off of N. Main and the second in New Braunfels in the Texas Hill Country. It's a sign for the river, explaining how it's closed for the season, but don't worry, the season reopens Feb 2. I wish Utah winters would end by Feb 2, I'd even take mid-March.

The Parking Lot

My work shares a parking lot with some interesting places. There is a beautiful old building with symmetrical staircases leading up to the doors. There is also a Chinese restaurant that has a sign that says "closed" on one side and "now open" on the other. It has been closed since I moved to Provo four years ago. There is also a Greyhound station right behind us, giving us a lot trouble at work, but I think eventually I will do a photo series of portraits of people who ride the Greyhound. Could be exciting.

Tommy's (the best Mexican food in San Antonio)

Signs painted on the walls of Tommy's where I ate with my father yesterday, my first day back in San Antonio.

Reno

Reno should be renamed "The Weirdest Little City in the World", because if you want to get approached by guys showing you their colonoscopy bags and have waiters tell you they're having a hard time speaking because they recently got stabbed--you're in the right place. Granted, it was 1am while all this happened, but there are still weird vibes here. Got to love this place, though.