Wanderlust Cafe

Half Dome, Yosemite – 17 August 2011 Perhaps … if I take enough pictures of Half Dome … it will become mine. – with love for the journey. Photograph by Lou Ann Granger, Yosemite, 17 August 2011

I pace upon the battlements and stare On the foundations of a house, or where Tree, like a sooty finger, starts from the earth; And send imagination forth Under the day’s declining beam, and call Images and memories From ruin or from ancient trees, For I would ask a question of them all. – William [...]

“On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d’abord et longtemps, tout rivage” (“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore”) – Andre Gide, Les faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters] (1925) A  favorite saying, which re-surfaced for no apparent reason the other [...]

Buenos Aires nights. She is there. Dancing. Laughing. Yet I’m not. Why not? – Lou Ann Granger Perhaps I am a bit jealous. Others are visiting Buenos Aires on a steamy summer night. Why am I not there, too? I realize I could be if I wanted to be. There is a longing, but no [...]