Adam Ford

Adam Ford

@puttyhead.bsky.social

Someone once said that i was a writer. Huh. Maybe. If so, you can buy all of my books from IndieBound and support a local independent bookstore. https://bookshop.org/shop/adambford

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Ten years ago today, October 24, 2016, i was in the same place that i am today, Shunk, Pennsylvania. Today i am here with my brother and my two dogs, Bulo and Koey, who are currently barking at something in the woods. Ten years ago i was with Seera, who was 16½ and nearing her end. #Photography #Dog

Ten years ago today, October 23, 2026, i left Athens, WV and drove up Route 20, stopping along the Bluestone River, then continuing on to northeast PA. #Photography #WV #WestVirginia

Ten years ago today, October 22, 2016, i was in Athens, WV and took a walk around Concord University with my friend Rod. #Photography

Ten years ago today, October 21, 2016, i took some pictures along the dam of Sardis Lake, just above John W. Kyle State Park in Mississippi. Then i drove to Cumberland Mountain State Park in Crossville, Tennessee. #Photography (Can you spot the moon?)

Ten years ago today, October 17, 2016, Hope NM. I had driven from White Sands the evening before and camped at a public park on the edge of town. Woke up before dawn and enjoyed the sunrise. #Photography #NewMexico

Ten years ago today, October 16, 2016, i took a hike up Soledad Canyon near Las Cruces, NM with friends, then that afternoon, we drove to White Sands National Monument. Seera followed us out and up dunes. #Photography #NewMexico #WhiteSands #Dog

Ten years ago today, October 14, 2016, i drove south from Albuquerque, stopping first at a rest stop near San Acacia to recreate the first picture i took of Seera in 2000 (shown here), then to Socorro, and finally to Las Cruces, where the #moon was rising over the Organs. #Photography #NewMexico

On October 11, 2016, i found out that my dog Seera (16½) had kidney failure. Ten years ago today, October 12, 2016, i drove her up to Sandia Peak outside Albuquerque, NM for a walk. She was a very sweet girl. #Photography #Dog #DogsofBlueSky #Albuquerque #NewMexico

Ten years ago today, October 11, 2016, i took eight pictures, mostly around my brother’s neighborhhod in Albuquerque, NM. Here are four of them. #Photography #Albuquerque #NewMexico

Forty years ago today, October 10, 1986, Roger Miller of the band Mission of Burma played his “Maximum Electric Piano” show at the Earlham College Coffeeshop in Richmond, Indiana. #Photography #BlackandWhite #MissionofBurma

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Today is World Day Against the Death Penalty. Let us seek to end this inhumane and immoral practice around the world, especially here in America. It is so deplorable that in the 21st century this is going on in a modern democracy.

Ten years ago today, October 10, 2016, my dog Seera (16½) and i went to Roosevelt Park in Albuquerque, NM to play a round of #DiscGolf. #Photography

Ten years ago today, October 9, 2016, i got up before dawn and went to the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta in New Mexico. If you’ve never been, put it on your list of events to see. #Photography #NewMexico

Ten years ago today, October 6, 2016. Morning in Wild Rivers Recreation Area in the Rio Grande Del Norte National Monument near Questa, NM. #Photography #NewMexico

Ten years ago today, October 4, 2016, i drove from Lewis & Clark State Park in Iowa to Swanson Lake State Park in Nebraska. Seera wasn’t eating much, but she was a good traveller. #Photography #Dog

Ten years ago today, October 3, 2016, USA Ultimate Nationals finished up and i drove to Lewis & Clark State Park in Iowa where i met this little guy, abandoned on a picnic table. #Photography #Lizard

Ten years ago today, October 1, 2016. Semifinal Saturday at USA Ultimate Nationals in Rockford, IL. Hazy start to the day, culminating in ultimate under the lights. #Photography #Dog #DogsofBlueSky

Ten years ago today, September 30, 2016. My #dog Seera hanging out in the Observers tent at USA Ultimate Nationals in Rockford, IL. The other observers (kinda like referees) loved having her there. She was 16½ at the time and this was her last road trip. @usaultimate.bsky.social #Photography

Tech rant: #MacOS 27 installed and localhost webserver stopped working. Tech support guy had no clue so bumped me up to more knowledgeable person who had NO IDEA that MacOS even had a built-in web server. Totally at a loss. Cmon #Apple....

Ten years ago today, September 28, 2016, i drove from Oak Park IL to Rockford IL. I stopped by the field site where USA Ultimate Nationals were being set up, then parked my camper at Rock Cut State Park and took some pictures. #Photography #Dog #DogsofBlueSky

Ten years ago today, September 28, 2016. I spent the morning walking around Oak Park IL, revisiting places where i used to take pictures every day in 2002. #Photography #OakPark

Late May/early June of 1993, i visited NYC. My friend Linda and i went to Ellis Island, then the World Trade Center. One of a few places i’ve been that no longer exists. #Photography

Forty years ago today, September 6, 1986. A spell of hard rain during the first day of New Student Week at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana. #Photography