Friends, it's 1 a.m. and I need to get to bed. Tomorrow is the first day of my long drive home, but I wanted to share a photo from today (Thursday). Since I took so many buses around the City it seemed appropriate to take a self portrait in that environment, hopefully one I can use in my Self Portraits/Daily Life series.

Today I spent hours at the International Center of Photography's current exhibit of Contemporary Japanese Photography & Video. Superb show!!! In the early evening I joined Erica McDonald, another "virtual" friend from David Alan Harvey's "Road Trips" blog, for dinner at a very cool restaurant in Greenwich Village. We talked and talked and talked, and would be there even now if there hadn't been a line of folks waiting for our table! These blog friends are sure turning out to be the real thing.