By the time we arrived in Manatee Springs, Florida, about an hour north of Cedar Key, the weather had changed and it was cold enough that I had to wear gloves to hold my camera. I couldn’t get a shot of the manatees because only their noses came out of the 70 degree crystal spring […]
Today I stopped to smell the roses that were sprawled along a white picket fence.. I walked through a pink door into a store that sells books and has a wireless internet connection. I did not go fishing. Today I sat on a purple bench to write this down. I learned that palm trees drop […]
1. The first sign of spring we saw on our south bound road trip was in Statesville, North Carolina, when we had to detour off Interstate 77 for an accident and drove by a house with a front yard full of purple crocuses. 2. We were driving slow enough at that point that I rolled […]
1. At the crossroads 2. Living lightly on the earth 3. Now you see it 4. Now you don’t Post note: On my walk to the mailbox on Thursday, I documented the much anticipated inch of snow we got, which was gone by the next day. The face pot in the tree is one made […]
1. Money doesn’t grow on trees, but music might. 2. Mary Poppins might have been here. 3. Dumped 4. Think twice What did you see? Post note: All of the above photos were taken around town in the past few days.
AKA: PHOTOS that never got posted. 1. Best outfit worn at a cookout 2. Best tattoo 3. Best attitude 4. Best view 5. Best blue view Photos: 1. My mom at the cook-out Joe and I hosted after my son Dylan’s wedding in July. 2. Mara’s girlfriend, Leah, shows off her tattoo during a summer […]
1. The number of people who fit on my couch on Christmas Eve broke a record. 2. A present so big it was used as a coffee table. 3. Best T-shirt 4. This is the present I got in our Christmas Eve neighborhood Yankee Swap. I call it Steve Martin’s brain. Post Notes: Other unique […]
Sleighless at the skating rink Santa’s got a brand new bag Box seats at the reindeer races Santa’s at my house. You’re next. Post Notes: Santa’s mid-life crisis HERE. Some Santa’s you don’t want to meet HERE. The photos above are all either from my own, or my son’s, private photo album.
December skies in late afternoon remind me of a child’s nursery. The walls are painted in hushed pinks and pale cool blues. The setting sun is like a nightlight clicking off. One day the sky is like a frozen pond of clouds. This one is slashed with white streaks, as if ice skaters have dragged […]
1. Red ink batik 2. The empty nest 3. The uninhabited planet 4. The great beyond 5. I flunked vegetarianism Post note: All the above photos were taken in my back yard or in my Blue Ridge Parkway neighborhood.
This is my favorite photograph taken yesterday at a neighboring farm community where Joe and I spent Thanksgiving. I call it “Reunion,” and it was taken from the balcony where the best rocking chair in the house is and before diving into our lucky pot luck feast. I promise that, although I do have to […]
1. The leaf within 2.The youngest among us 3. Impressionable 4. Food for thought 5. As far as the eye can see Update: My WVTF radio essay “Born to Blog” will air on Public Radio this Friday at 6:55 and 8:55. I’ll post the text here over the weekend, but you can hear it now […]
