Greetings! While out hunting for photographic subjects, I sometimes come across things that make me stop and think or even better, laugh! This week I would like to share some of them with you. This sign, in a nearby garden plot, is quite self explanatory, but what does one make of this one seen by the side of a road in North Carolina?Bumper stickers (and window stickers) are always a good source of fun. These three appeal to me very…
Greetings! Welcome to the second weekly photo essay written specifically in blog format. I appreciate the feedback you sent me last week, which was heavily in favor of the new format. Since last Monday I have fixed the “Contact Me” page, which does now work, and I have continued with the task of adding older essays that can be accessed from the “Pre-Blog Essays” sidebar on the right hand side of the page, and I have added the original title…
Greetings! A few days ago, a friend commented on the fact that the vast majority of my pictures – however good they might be technically – are fundamentally rather cold, impersonal, portraits of a single bird, bug, or plane. And I have to agree with him! So, I have spent some time during the week sorting out a few images that hopefully break out of that mold. Some of you have seen some of them before. Most of…
Greetings! While the majority of all my pictures feature things with wings, it has been quite a long time since I devoted an entire essay to things with very big wings. While some of you may remember seeing a few of these images before, I hope you will agree they are worth sharing with newer “subscribers”. The Frontier Airlines Airbus A320 in picture #1 actually has some of the smaller wings in this set, but the Pileated Woodpecker on the…
Double-click on any image to view it full size. Click the back-button to return to your place on this page. Greetings! And welcome to three new “members” this week! When we moved to Lansdowne Woods – known as Leisure World in those days – there was a sales center building just inside the main entrance, where prospective residents could visit examples of the various units available throughout the complex. I do not know which unit the visitor shown…
Double-click on any image to view it full size. Click the back-button to return to your place on this page. Greetings! First of all, to all of you who suggested that last week’s mystery picture was of a mushroom – congratulations! It’s been many weeks now since Ruthi and I have been to the beach – things keep cropping up. One of the things I miss most is watching the pelicans. So this essay is devoted to pelicans. I have…
Double-click on any image to view it full size. Click the back-button to return to your place on this page. Greetings! Something a bit different this week. Just in case you hadn’t heard, there was a solar eclipse last Monday! So in case you missed it, I am attaching about 85 photos I took showing the progress of the moon across the face of the sun. But take heart, you don’t have to study each one – I put…
Double-click on any image to view it full size. Click the back-button to return to your place on this page. Greetings! And an especial welcome to new “subscribers”! For many people, milkweed is synonymous with Monarch butterflies. However, milkweed can play host to a wide variety of highly colorful insects, just a few of which are featured in this week’s essay. I seem to be acquiring a reputation – at least within the community – as…
Double-click on any image to view it full size. Click the back-button to return to your place on this page. Greetings! If you have been reading these essays for three years, and if you have a good memory, you may recognize two of the images in this set, and some of the words. However, this is the “New, Improved” version so hopefully everyone will find something of interest. Perhaps it is just me, but I think there is something…
Double-click on any image to view it full size. Click the back-button to return to your place on this page. Greetings! As the title implies, this week’s essay is about a wide variety of subjects all taken on the same day – specifically last Thursday. However, the first picture was taken the day before that, but is included because it features our new grandson, Matthew, who was just over 24 hours old when the picture was taken in the…