Photographer Bill Owens roams, but keeps coming back to suburbia.
By Michael J. Ybarra @ The LA Times
Hayward, Calif. — On a bucolic street in this suburb (what else?) south of San Francisco, Bill Owens lives in a cottage crammed with art, mementos and the detritus of enough half-started projects — vintage pickup truck rebuilding, sparkling winemaking — to full several lifetimes. Somehow the human skull sitting atop a shelf doesn't look out of place.
"Don't ask me where I got it," says Owens. "I used to have an antique store. I can tell you where I got the cannonball, though."
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