SAN MIGUEL DOORS
So for most of this week I’ve been trying to figure out whether to go to Germany, have spent hours sorting through boxes of family papers and have wondered about the transcience of life. And then another pressing project appeared. Snapfish offered a cutrate price, $3 apiece, to print the kinds of square tiles with photographs printed on them which I have placed on the walls of my apartment as well as in restaurants—Zadies and MAD Co—across the river in Marshall. These photographs printed by Mixtiles when on sale cost $7 apiece. So Snapfish seemed to be offering a bargain.
I decided to quickly select and process about twenty doors of San Miguel de Allende where I had been in January and to crop them to a square size. Apple allows me to search through my photographs to find the 1750 photographs of Mexico and then I went through and selected the doors and finally chose twenty and processed them and sent them off before the one day deadline. I am including them here. But as I was finalizing the project I discovered that although 20 printed photographs, that can be easily fastened to the wall without leaving nail holes, cost $60, Snapfish had snookered me by charging $60 for shipping and handling. Since the light weight box filled with these photos could be shipped for $10, the remaining $50 must be for handling, bringing the price per tile to about $6, not bad, but not a great bargain either. Since I had put so much work into preparing them I couldn’t back off now and paid the $121 Snapfish charged me.
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 