Drinking Wine With Joe McNally

After surviving the pandemic, some rather serious surgeries, several weeks of physical therapy, and broken bones (bike crash), Kongo Monkey returns to his blog after a trip to Northern California for a photo workshop with the incomparable Joe McNally. This week-long adventure to San Francisco and the Napa Valley was the perfect get-out-of-the-treehouse romp to get the monkey back into an unZoomed world.

Joe makes a point during a demonstration
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Kongo’s Not So Good Terrible Very Bad Day in a Swamp

So, the monkey and his ravishing bride, Mrs. Kongo, are in Florida for a few weeks. What drove these two level-headed, cautious simians to fly across the country in the middle of a pandemic to a COVID hotspot? Why, grandchildren, of course. Mrs. Kongo (and Papa Kongo too) badly needed a grandparent fix from their two little munchkins living in Tampa. Continue reading “Kongo’s Not So Good Terrible Very Bad Day in a Swamp”