Graduation

I photographed a number of college graduation events this week and this is an abstracted image from one of them. Graduation is a big deal, a distinct dividing point between phases of life. For me, it always came with mixed feelings: a feeling of accomplishment but more of uncertainty about what comes next. College is […]

The Commitment of World War II

There is a museum in Catania, Sicily, about the Allied invasion of Italy, which began in Sicily. The museum is quite remarkable, including a bomb shelter where you sit and listen to sound of bombs dropping while the room shakes. There are endless exhibits about all aspects of that invasion, including guns of all sizes, […]

A Seagull Can Fly

Walking along a seawall there is a nervous and clumsy seagull ahead of me. It is waddling along, glancing back at me.  And then, deciding What The Heck, it just steps off the wall, opens its wings and soars into the wind over the sea. It is transformed from an awkward earthling to a graceful […]

Carrot Shopping

Once again, a routine visit to the supermarket becomes a little voyage of scenes and scenarios. On the way in, a mother has placer her child in her shopping cart, a site I always strikes me as cute and I am tempted to ask in which aisle did she find such a lovely child? This […]

Lake Erie After the Blizzard

The massive Christmas blizzard in the Buffalo area in December melted away almost entirely within a few days when it warmed up and it rained.  But on the shore of Lake Erie the snow had piled deeper than anywhere and three weeks later it has formed a sort of mini glacier on the beach. The […]

Snow Porch

It snowed on my porch, except under the railing and near the door where the roof over hangs. Later it rained and this was all washed away.

Precarious Leaves

When I came back they had fallen through or blown away, so I am glad I caught them.

Ice Branches

Thank you, Mother Nature, for yet another Glimpse of something sweet, ice bubbles blooming from branches on a warm New Years Day.

Holiday Ends

The holiday gathering ends and everyone leaves. You can see that they left. It is written on the driveway.

Another Jew, Actually

Here is an odd little story from about 40 years ago… that came to mind recently. It seems more relevant now than it was then, and I present it in the middle of the Christmas-Hannukah muddle. After camping alone in New Hampshire on a long weekend, I stopped for lunch on the way home.  It […]