Backcountry camping beside Lake Francis, Glacier Waterton International Peace Park. Pinhole sequence on 120 format film. #aRealPlace #Pinhole #Film #Glacier-Waterton

Buddha's enlightenment was witnessed by the water rising up; a massive historic flood, the waters bearing witness. 'Map of the Waters Bearing Witness' is a five-stone lithograph, edition of 12, 25x37in. depicting the Mudra “touching the earth” as a map of this significant event. #aRealPlace #toMake

'Again, a Real Place'. [Missoula, Mont.] Limited Edition of 1/18 - 18/18. #StoneLithograph three matrix #LimitedEdition print on Somerset Velvet in hand mixed inks using raw pigments. #toMake Press YA) #aRealPlace a real #map . #Missoula #KellyIsland #ClarkFork

Limited Edition 'Derby Street'. [Berkeley, Calif.] #StoneLithograph matrix #LimitedEdition print on Somerset Velvet in two inkings of a single stone matrix in hand mixed black ink. #toMake Press YA) #aRealPlace a real #map

Had some errands & despite the rain took the bike the long way along the river because, well ... it's so beautiful, slow & deLightful. Between the bridges on the other side white tails bounding up & back in playful joy; stop me to enJOY. YA) #deer #Missoula #aRealPlace #ClarkFork #BearingWitness

Stop Experience Observe & Respond #toMake Press in #Missoula Montana a #RealPlace

3:October 2025 Days are noticeably shorter, darker at night, damp & chilly in the garden. Some mornings, like this . . . I have to strike the bell twice or more to hear it. But I do. #toMake #Missoula #aRealPlace #Practice #theMorningPoem

SILENCE IS NOT AN OPTION ACT NOW #WoodType #Letterpress #toMake

Beside Baring Creek on Saint Mary Lake, Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park. 4X5 b&w film pinhole sequence. #aRealPlace #Pinhole #Film #GlacierNP

Last of the September #MorningPieces ... at #toMake in #Missoula ... YA) #aRealPlace Every morning in between the dream world and the waking world.

A good day for a walk. #Beartracks bridge #Missoula #Montana over the west flowing downstream into the Pacific #ClarkFork River. #aRealPlace YA).

How I feel today. #Meena the #Cat at #toMake ... #aRealPlace in #Missoula #Montana

Today in Missoula Climate Smart Missoula .... YA) #ANTIFA ... the newly declared terrorist presence was awesome. All aboard toward a sustainable and diverse future. This cannot & will not be stopped. #ClimateSmartMissoula #aRealPlace #Missoula www.missoulaclimate.org

GENEROSITY a hand carved wood relief matrix printed on kozo with flocking powders. #relief #print #toMake #aRealPlace #Missoula

Then feet touching, heart pounding YA) to bear witness Now :: the present moment feet touching, heart pounding #BearingWitness #aRealPlace Summer along the Idaho-Montana continental divide #Beaverhead #UltraMarathon #55K

Modified Slinky Print Drying Rack. Things that work ... without upgrades, rebooting, new parts, internet wi-fi cables & power. Imagination & effort necessary [not a lot however]. YA) #BearingWitness in #toMake studio #Missoula #Mont #aRealPlace. #PostModernLuddite, #Printer, #Letterpress #Maker.

Choices ... then again maybe I'll grind in some raw #pigment s in linseed oil and go forward from there. #ActNow #toMake Press #Missoula #Montana #aRealPlace #Lithography

I should say something, something significant, profound :: attention grabbing, like these flower_ing_s &&& it being the Autumnal #Equinox today YA) Bearing Witness in #toMake studio today #aRealPlace #Missoula #BearingWitness

Only a few flowers are left for the bees &&& the night moths only a few. But there are millions of seeds ! millions ... the garden and I Are extremely wealthy this autumn day. #aRealPlace #Missoula #toMake #Seeds #Millionaires #Wealth #Garden

It's #TypeHigh Day toDAY: .918 that's how high ... This stuff is still working just fine. Things that work ... without upgrades, rebooting, new parts [well sometimes], internet wi-fi cables & power. #Education necessary. #toMake #Letterpress 10L #WoodType #Missoula a #RealPlace. #PostModernLuddite

Making Black Ink Things that work ... without upgrades, rebooting, new parts, internet wi-fi cables and power. #Education necessary [not a lot however just effort]. YA) in #toMake studio #Missoula #Montana a #RealPlace. #PostModernLuddite, #Printer, #Geographer & #Maker.

Now autumn comes... colder and darker the peppers dry ing no more melons or peaches the tomatoes are still ripening & the apples drop Orion in the night sky. #toMake #aRealPlace #Missoula #autumn #gardening

Once & awakened to see ... black is not black at all & every thing is really so much more YA) & everywhere everything #lithography #letterpress #toMakePress #aRealPlace #ink #Missoula #BlackInk

KEEP THE EARTH ROUND & ORBITING edition of forty in three hand mixed colours #Letterpress #aRealPlace #toMake #Missoula

SILENCE is not an Option ACT NOW #Letterpress #ActNow #toMake #aRealPlace

Every Event is a GIFT ... Every One; a GIFT. This Present Moment. toMake Press. Missoula, Montana. #toMake #letterpress #Gift #BearingWitness #Missoula #PresentMoment

Time to put the #Fluevogs on .... YA) & why not

Pinhole image on film. Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park. Upper Two Medicine Creek. Bearing witness ... counting heart beats ... .stopping ... getting wet. #Pinhole #film #TwoMedicine #Glacier-Waterton #aRealPlace

"Place where the rivers cum together." #Nashua, #Montana ... Milk Porcupine & Missouri rivers with Railroad & Highway. #aRealPlace #Monoprint with #Collage Snapped Ink String & Acrylic #print from #toMake in #Missoula Montana. 22x30in. on Somerset Velvet and Kozo.

Suite of Two Prints: 'Let me say this before all the water is censored and sold' [lines by Thomas Merton] && 'In times of was it becomes a necessity to hack the pavement.' Blind emboss & Stone Lithograph, Limited edition prints 22x30 in. #aRealPlace #toMakePress

'This Present Moment' relief print with wood type printed in a transparent base with powdered flocking. #toMake #aRealPlace #Missoula #ReliefPrint #WoodType #WorkingProof

Out & about. & an unexpected rain drops over the valley over the river. Over me and I am wet. I am in it & celebrate. "The time will come when they will sell you even your rain. At the moment it is still free, and I am in it. I celebrate its gratuity and its meaninglessness." #ThomasMerton

"The River, Again" Relief Matrix Rubbing. Clark Fork River in the Missoula, Montana Valley watershed. #toMake #aRealPlace #Missoula #AdultContent

ACT NOW Extinction Rebellion is a decentralized, international & politically non-partisan movement using non-violent direct action & civil disobedience to persuade governments to act justly on the Climate & Ecological Emergency. #ExtinctionRebellion rebellion.global #aRealPlace #ReliefPrint

Windy afternoon ... hot, dry & smokey ... fire weather.

& you stop to take a single pinhole image on film; asking what camera lens focal length f-stop film ... counting heartbeat seconds... taking a breath; in & out. The place itSelf is breathing with you. YA) #aRealPlace #GlacierWaterton #PitamakanPass 1.5 in 4x5 #Pinhole #Triptych RVP 100 film f/250

Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park. Two Medicine Dawson Pitamaken loop; midpoint "O My God" pause. #aRealPlace #GlacierNP #DawsonPitmaken #Montana #OMyGod

Pinhole exposures on film. Lake Pend Oreille Idaho. Stopping to Bear Witness. #pinhole #filmphotography #aRealPlace #LakePendOreille #BearingWitness

Sunrift Gorge, Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park. Extended exposure pinhole photo on film. #pinhole #film #aRealPlace #Montana #GlacierNP

Things that work ... without upgrades, rebooting, new parts, internet wi-fi cables and power. #Education necessary. Conte copying paper for #letterpress proofing. Alcohol saturated paper with red iron oxide powder rubbed in & dried.  #toMake #Missoula #aRealPlace. #PostModernLuddite

Flathead River, Highway 200, upstream of the confluence with Clark Fork River. Stopping while traveling east and west. #Montana #aRealPlace #FlatheadRiver #toMake

Using 4x5 Pinhole cameras; at McDonald Creek confluence with Avalanche Creek and along the Continental Divide backcountry ... Glacier N.P. #aRealPlace #Pinhole #Glacier

The Flamingos in the Garden The flamingos have gathered in the garden flowers rumor they will winter here. "Why here ?" I ask them. "Do you not know of the Great Sadness sweeping over the land? Do something friend Do something while there is still time." #aRealPlace #BearingWitness

The apple tree this morning bearing witness Again.

#Pinhole image on #film. Cascade River; north shore of Lake Superior Minnesota. #aRealPlace #toMake

#Reading from #GarySnyder’s Turtle Island (circa 1974) collection of #poetry tonight. From ‘For The Children’ “stay together learn the flowers go light”

STOP . . . a simple reminder in the shop at #toMake #aRealPlace in #Missoula #Montana Having a difficult day; bad dreams, sleepless night, a work gone off, way off.

"Counting to Seventy-Two." #Berkeley #CA east bay waterfront walking the #railroad tracks. #aRealPlace #toMake #edition #Missoula #Montana

Things that work ... without upgrades, rebooting, new parts, internet wi-fi cables and power. #Education necessary. YA) in #toMake studio #Missoula #Montana a #RealPlace. #PostModernLuddite, #Printer, #Geographer & #Maker. & yes ... I do know, can and have; living in SE Asia 1950s.

#Pinhole image on Velvia ISO50 #film. Above Lake #Ellen-Wilson looking towards the #continental divide in #GlacierNP #Montana a #RealPlace. #Leonardo4x5 f/250 camera.