Oxford and Lon­don were a fan­tas­tic time, and for that I owe a great deal to Jeff and a hand­ful of new Oxford friends.

I should be tired right now (1 AM EDT) but strangely I am not. I must have unlocked the secret of beat­ing jet lag. Jeff chal­lenged me to develop my film as soon as I got back, so I did. I processed five rolls of black and white tonight and there are three rolls of color going to the lab tomor­row. My fin­gers smell like photo fixer.

Hold­ing each film up to the light for the first time is still as mag­i­cal as it was when I learned to use the dark­room. I have been rewarded with some great shots. Scan­ning, edit­ing, and writ­ing always take a while, how­ever, and may be delayed until I return from Washington.