On today’s post, I am declaring that we are in the process of buying a house in Fullerton and we are having our home inspection today. Maybe it is a bit premature to post this, because technically we are still in escrow and technically the house might not pass the home inspection. But if I blog about it, maybe it will mean that it will go splendidly well, since it’s practically in print already. The writing is on the wall people!

I am truly an optimist. After today all goes well, keeping my fingers crossed, I will feel much better about really declaring to the world that we finally bought a house. I seriously will declare it over the loud speaker and tell the whole wide world. Oh wait, I have some blog readers in France who might be reading this. 🙂

I wanted to post some older photos I had that really describe what I am feeling right now. These photos are from a series titled Discarded Season and I think really illustrate how we as Americans think of an object as precious one moment and then forgotten the next. I never realized how much stuff I had till I actually looked in my closets and realized that I had to pack everything soon. I open the closet, ponder what I should give to the Salvation Army, and then say to myself, that I am not ready to get rid of my dad’s old leather jacket. Ugh, I can’t let go. Purging is a must and it will happen, but I’m not quite ready to forget. 

And to all you film photographers who might be reading this, I shot these on black and white film AND printed them myself in my darkroom.