Between the worlds of the then, and the now, the veil thins and the true horrors are revealed. Some can make even a ghost scream. 

This old smithy in Snowflake, Arizona is a well-preserved and not replicated part of the frontier past. 

A jarring note of the modern world seems to make history even more striking in this photograph of the door of the old Snowflake Forge in Snowflake, Arizona. 

History comes alive in Snowflake, Arizona! Here the old Smithy sits in the foreground while one of the elegant houses of the founding father's rests behind. 

 

Workplace and residence often were delineated more by age than distance, as seen in these examples from the middle and later 1800's. 

The Snowflake Forge, a memory lives on. 

Bringing the Old West to life. 

A photographic, graphically enhanced collage of iconic images of San Francisco of the 1970's. This one will bring back memories. Especially appropriate for birthdays, anniversaries. 

This craggy Juniper tree, over a hundred years old, stands sentinel on the high desert plateau in the White Mountains of Arizona. 

Sometimes the view is enhanced when focusing not on the forest, not on the tree, but focusing on what trees think of, their shadows and their spaces. This is all that remains of a juniper tree that was a young sapling a couple of hundred years ago. A... 

My best friend, Sam. 

"Even in the darkest night, I feel you. Even in the deepest dark, You heal me. How is it you always sense When I need you most, My friend, Seek my sorrows and myself, And lead me to your door'"" This is a companion piece to Dark Walking, a... 

"Darkness, and the rain. I remember the rain. Walking away from you, my head down, Not turning when you called my name. My tears mingling with raindrops, Reflecting in the moonlight as I move on." This is a companion piece to "The Path.... 

This canvas is painted in the Fauvist manner, reminiscent of Matisse and Rousseau and yet giving itself over to neither. Fresh and original in style and scope, this work matches the untamed colors of the Fauves but then removes itself from the wild b...