Professional Eater, Storyteller, and Wine Traveler
Buena Vista Park
San Francisco Solitary Trees
On consecutive walks in the city
I came upon separate solitary trees sharing their light and oxygen with me.
I found reflections of self in these lonesome trees
and knew no way to take them in my car or even across the street
So I shot them, not with cannon or laser but handy little phone
Edited them quickly and now they are never alone. [Read more...]
Here is The Blissful Adventurer 2012 Year in Review Haiku. Haiku was one of my most successful creative expressions here in the blog world in 2012 I want to share some of the best of the best with you all today for my final blog of 2012; easily the most successful year I have a had as a storyteller. [Read more...]
scratching away now
solid as before he looks
down upon us in awe
Montara State Beach sits just north of the town of Half Moon Bay, California along the historic Pacific Coast Highway 1. Today’s post is dedicated to a friend who I learned recently was severely injured in a fall and is fighting to regain the ability to walk. I hope the spirit imbues me with something cool today. This will not be strict Haiku so if you are a purist, you might want to leave now 
scratching at the surface now
trying hard to understand
how
so much that goes misunderstood
and why it leads to doubt
perhaps
that doubt is only in me
and I hope it is true [Read more...]
This week’s Haiku Sunday is a Hipstamatic Move across the West. It has been a bit since I featured this app and since documenting the journey from Colorado to California this week I felt it an appropriate time for the Haiku and Hipsta!
here he comes riding
lands that were once his now not
because he is now dead [Read more...]
Haiku Sunday – The Denver Adventure’s Final Days is a photo and poetic chronicle of our last two weeks living here in Colorado. Mixed emotions, joy, sadness, and the fear of the unknown all share in this largest HS of all time. (Roll over images with your mouse for the titles)
shining app sized bites
loving the views hating douche
morgue before-after [Read more...]
This week’s Haiku Sunday (Monday) features images taken from our visit to Sushi Den’s private garden and eco-friendly greenhouse in Brighton, CO. We visited for an amazing picnic hosted by the restaurant. I love clouds and sky they remind me of being someplace spiritual and untouchable. (All photos taken with the iPhone 4)
wrinkles in the sheets
lying next to the only thing
that makes my heart beat
[Read more...]
This week’s edition of Haiku Sunday – Italy iPhone Photography by Juliet Housewright celebrates the eye of my talented wife on our most recent Italy journey. Juliet’s work will have its own gallery on The Blissful Adventurer soon and these images will certainly be part of it. Enjoy today’s Haiku and stay tuned for a big announcement tomorrow!
Feet seem happiest
when dappled lights and warmth find
a place to alight [Read more...]
IMO Thursday is a weekly rundown from the bag of opinions that sheds light on greatness in food, writing, travel, and photography. This week, The Legend of Boomie Bol - one of the very best poet bloggers in America.
The Closest I got
To an Italian lifestyle
Teaming with Mike TBA - Boomie Bol [Read more...]
Technical difficulties and creative exhaustion led to the untimely demise of Haiku Sunday this week. To celebrate the 33 views of my blog that day (the lowest total since January) I am offering a glimpse into my last week. Haiku Tuesday is about my still life in Denver while enjoying the genius artworks of Clyfford Still, perhaps the most important Abstract Expressionist painter. Mr Still’s work along with Jackson Pollock and my favorite modern painter Mark Rothko changed the way we look at art today and possibly even our views of the world.
I cried on and off throughout my day in the Clyfford Still Museum on Sunday because the paintings reminded me why I am out here trying to create which to me is just the way I want to live and so frequently do not.
Texture is not false
it is what keeps us reaching
again for the touch [Read more...]
