A panoply of life

I don't have much to say about Timm today, except that later I'm driving over to my father-in-law's place to enlist his help in scanning in many of the slides Timm left behind.

It's only first step in archiving Timm's work -- getting a digital copy of it all in one place -- but it's a doozy, because there are thousands of 'em, lodged in sleeves and filling two large boxes. Many of the sleeves are untitled, so I'm going to have to guess at what many of the photos are of and what intentions Timm might have had for them. There's a fat red binder filled with photos of flowers, sleeve after sleeve titled "Geraniums" or "Water Flowers."

We think that some of Timm's commercial customers would value parts of the archive -- the Oregon Gardens, for one -- so we will at some time ship to them digital copies. All in good time.

For today, I'll let Timm speak for himself as best as possible with the following panoply of images that suggests the wide-angle lens Timm looked at the world through, capturing so many vivid images of life in the moment. So take it away, Timm ...