Spider Gets Christmas Eve Dinner
We were visiting, making some stops onChristmas Eve afternoon. We’d taken some gifts to friends, and were sitting in their living room. A flutter of motion under a bookcase caught […]
Monthly Archives: December 2017
Christmas Parade Scenes: The Waiting
Every year, Falmouth, Massachusetts has a Christmas Parade. This parade has become one of my favorite Falmouth events. The community comes out in force, both in participating in the parade […]
Coquina “Sits” For Pictures
Coquina’s doing splendidly. Here are a set of portraits from this morning. The strong puppy is getting stronger. She can’t leap buildings in a single bound, but she can do […]
In the Old Field at Sunset.
At sunset on the first day of winterI took a walk in an old field. It’s a fine old field. It’s been kept mowed, but has not been plowed in […]
Fallen, Drifted, and Stranded
A few years ago, a big maple tree somewhere lost a very big branch. The branch somehow made it to the ocean. And in a storm, the branch somehow made […]
Quansoo at Day’s End
“It’s fifty degrees and calm at four o’clock in the afternoon, so it will be nice and pleasant down at the beach…” That’s what I thought when I got in […]
The Dog Did An Interesting Thing
We had been to the beach, dog and I. The light was still strong but was soon to fade. The sun was falling toward the horizon. Shadows were lengthening. When […]
Flowers from 9 Degrees
Nine degrees. That’s not far north of the equator. While it’s not nine degrees on Martha’s Vineyard right now, it did get close to that the other night, out on […]
Mining the Archives
Some of my photographs have been “packed away” in backup, and after a period in limbo, are now accessible to me again. I’ve been poking through these thousands of images. […]
Three Experiments
Three experiments. One. Two. Three.
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