We’ve driven the wheels off our rental Ford Fungus (as John calls the blue Focus) so far this trip. We spent the night with our friends John Eaton and Diane Kaye in Aptos. About fifteen minutes after we arrived Diane whisked me to her amazing darkroom where we conferred on the best way to prepare special photographic chemistry. I’ve not done wet photography for years and my chemistry is awfully rusty, but I can still prep solutions more easily than someone who didn’t grow up in a lab. She’s been printing using a specialized technique called lith printing. Her results are astonishing: she gets bold color tones and unusual grain patterns that give her work a quality missing in conventional silver prints - even with toning.
We ate like mad, hung out and talked, and did very little. On Sunday morning I pawed through Diane’s German books - she’s a German scholar, too. Then we headed to a brunch place. She wanted to surprise us - and we ended up at Shadowbrook in Capitola. My ex and I frequented the place during the early 1980s, and I always loved the long, easy brunches in glass paneled rooms overlooking the river.
John and I headed to San Mateo where my good friend Kathleen Jacoby hosted us for a mid-afternoon coffee with friends. These are good times where we can talk metaphysical notions and play with ideas. A really great time!
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