Returning.

I have not written anything on the Diamond Brand Blog for a minute. Oh GAWD. Why have I neglected my only CHILD????????????

I tried to make a real D.B. website but it just withered in hyperspace because I don't know shee-at about HTML. So I will return to the platform I know best, BLOGGER- which hasn't changed since like 2002. Thus, I can use it.

I feel NOSTALGIC today. In a bad way. In the TAKE ME BACK TO WHEN I WAS 17 WAY. So dangerous. Why? Because then you have to listen to Bruce Springsteen's "Glory Days" and actually feel like these days "passed you by"

Some kind of feathery bullshit that all is. Missing your youth. I mean, I'm 22. I'm at the breaking point of being able to pretend like I am a child. Most people think I'm 30 anyhow.

Some parts of growing up are nice. For example: I have a sewing machine in front of me and all the mugs in my house were hand chosen to my aesthetic specifications. Also all the lamps.


Today, I want to be a mermaid in a timewarp. I want to swim onto the shores of my memories and watch for any details I missed. What was being sold in the midnight gas station shelves in Kansas? How many times did the dingy girl use the bathroom on the Greyhound bus? What colors were the head scarves of the women swimming fully dressed in the Mediterranean sea on the Turkish coast?

I have a lot these days. So much that when I move I'll need a u-haul and a thousand journals to keep to uproot and archive myself.

Diamond Brand teaches me that the entrepreneurial spirit lives within and any dreams I am chasing are to further the cause of Diamond Glory. 

HERE ARE SOME PHOTOS TO SUM IT ALL UP:

 Viva la vie Bachelorette!!

 Shrine for a departed Irish Grandfather

 The last time in a while I was with curly headed Free Pile

 Heading to the Coast with Raven, land of Father respect and Ocean Mistic

 Feelin it with my Curran Cousins

 Brave Blue Brethren

 The Marriage License

 Kundalini Linguine Queenie and Allen Ginseng

 My life as an Archivist for a fortnight

 Trying to make a livin' sellin clothes.

 Please take me back to the Kent nail Salon.

 Gypsy Daylight

Thrashlorettes

Wishin' it was the 20's always.

Alright. Get yourself outside:

MAKE LOVE IN THE GARDEN TO THIS SONG!!!

The Wholesome and Organic Food Hoax

I receive the same pleasure when I drink/eat a oreo reeses blizzard from dairy queen as I do a Doe Bay Garden Salad featuring pansy flowers.

 ITS ALL THE SAME 

Washington State Welcomes You.

DREADNEX

I remembered that beer comes in boxes.

Busch Coors Ranier

Natural Light

how it streams through clouds and humidity, 

then North bites the endless shield,

where Memory salts her rain barrel 

hunching on the dripping porch

barbecue all wet

teeth sugared with medecine brandy

she splits wood with thunder napkins

and collects the pulp of sandflea pamphlets

left out to disintegrate

by the walmart pool last summer forgot.

The trailer is there too, stretching its yellow over pallets of corrugated sheeting.

Iron projects molding where last summer got caught. 

The Terminal at Anacortes, WA

1969 Plymouth Valiant. Suquamish Park and Ride.

Roy's Volvo Shop, Port Townsend, WA

The Centralia Goodwill

The Full House Barn, Olympia, WA

Jesus Candles, Portland, OR

Sophie in Hannah's Ford.

Convient Store Selection, Whidbey Island, WA

Drug Store Selection, Port Townsend, WA

DIAMOND BRAND IS STILL GOING STRONG

I have returned from an epic journey to France 

I am preparing to devote my whole life to Diamond Brand.

Here are a couple pictures of my Grandpa Pete's Manor in Kent Washington

The beautiful Pacific Northwest is thriving like 

rumors on Amanda Knox. 

I look forward to returning to this written virtual sector of the Diamond Zone

in the next days.

MERCI 

MELANIE

GUSHINGS

Here is some pictorial representation of having walking across France

After Espalion capsite

Old

Young

Before the city of Saugues

Abbaye at Conques

Figeac!! A town on Le Chemin de Saint Jacques where there are cultures other than white people.

My favorite gite keepers.

My tent.

Esther the Marvel and her Immortal Accordian

Serge's Pilgrim Organization Wall

Trash Art in Field

This was the bathroom of the only town I walked through that didn't have a church.

Wait- is that a big plastic bag full of water????

YEASSSSS!!!!!!!

Carmel of Moissac

Old World hotel.

Les Simpsons

Sunflower house

Meow sweet color honey

Thérèse, the dearest of Benevoles

High on donations!!!

Carmel Pastel Morning in Condom, France!!!

I was FEELING this river lifestyle.

Barbara, my German grandmother

My element. 

A really easy to follow map.

Nope, didn't get lost at all following this!!

I liked this building

Antoine the BIG LEBOWSKI Pélerin and his mysterious Belgian housemate

Hotel de la paix. My favorite building. Aire Sur L'Ardour

AHAHAHAHAH

I love when people have wallpaper like this

I miss America when I look at Pink houses

Pilgrims finding WIFI!!!

Damn that's a big puzzle.

I drank too much wine last night to describe how important these baby owls are to me

FIGURINES

Oh my god Puma Run

you can just barely see them. Dey da PYRENEES in the distance.

Oh, its morning? Sorry. Not moving. Too stoked to be sleeping at the house of the town BAKER

Angular maddness

Big Time Din Din

Ohhhhhhhhhhh this is always what happens

Bellevue

MY HOMIES

Gnarliest oldest church with so many grape vines carved on the columns. Saint Nicholas.

On the front of the cathedral from above was this chill 

PENTAGRAM

The Northern Europeans.

Basque Rain World

Bertrand the Baker

People Partying in Saint Jean Pied de Port

Ohhh magic mist of the day, carry me to my bed.

Someone should carve this religious picture into a church

Oh snap_ ___________ VIEWS

Janine at her Window

Holy Grail!!!!

After Church let out in Saint Jean Pied de Port

Somebody needs to slash the tires of this train.

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Spanish Boarder