Jodie Ponto Photography

This is 97th Street in Taylor, BC.  Also known as the street I grew up on.

Supposedly it’s the first day of Spring.

Personally, I see no signs of the elusive season … which can only mean I have returned to Canada, my home & native snowglobe.

However, this blizzard also means that in the following days my dear old neglected phlog should return to its former over-active glory and be filled with all sorts of photos from my recent adventures in Euroland. So keep warm & stay tuned!

I’m not going to lie, when I looked out the window this morning I screamed bloody murder.

That’s because Mother Nature was out there smothering the life out of everything with her snow blanket. On the verge of hysterically calling 911 to report the massacre I was witnessing,  Robert Plant convinced me otherwise.

As he sang, “Apple like a cherry, cherry like a rose”, I noticed some tiny red crab-apples glowing like roses and generally paying no attention to the white death coming from the sky. Seeing no reason to be upset about it if they weren’t, I put on my mittens and boots and went outside to photograph all the still living things I could find.

I keep swearing that I will no longer allow myself to be seduced by Fall’s philandering charms, because in the end that fleeting bastard always skips town and leaves my poor little heart in a frozen mess.  But every year, without fail, Fall comes rolling back into my life and whispers golden dreams in my ears until I crumble into its bed of colours and before I know it my heart’s re-lit on fire with its flaming beauty.

The lovely Miss Quincy and her Mother Hen have been kind enough to let me stay in their wee cabin whilst she (Miss Q) is off in the Yukon wilds destroying grizzlies with her bare hands, or whatever else it is folks do up there.

Tonight I invited Henry David Thoreau and Górecki over and we had a hot date next to the wood stove.

Photos from the Sweetwater 905 music & arts festival on the Mattson’s farm in Rolla, BC (Sept 3-5, 2010).

Mamaguroove

Naughtlia

Navaz

Party on High Street

Rachelle van Zanten

The Resurrect Christ Foundation

Miss Quincy and I recently got down at her little cabino for a liner notes photoshoot for her brand spankin’ new album, Your Mama Don’t Like Me.

The Miss Q in question spent two weeks in December holed up in the cabin in question to record the album in question.  I was fortunate enough to retreat with the recording crew, so until the album is unleashed in the spring enjoy the visuals in my Miss Quincy Recording Sessions entries:

Day One – Day Four – Day Five – Day Six – Day Seven – Farmhouse Concert

It’s no secret that Rolla, BC is one of my most favorite little hamlets in the galaxy. Here are some photos from a lazy and lovely Sunday jam following a Saturday night Bornday boogie-a-thon.