Photography Is My Form Of Therapy
I captured this image of a tree’s shadow on the sidewalk yesterday early morning while walking up the subway\light rail station: That blocky, jagged image is just as it was Continue ReadingSidewalk Shadow of a Tree
I was watching this Garden White (Genus Pieris) flutter around our backyard yesterday afternoon, it finally decided to settle on a Plume Thistle (Genus Cirsium) leaf: We left all of these Continue ReadingGarden White At Rest
This has been a very interesting past week, to say the least. Why? Well, we were extremely close to a catastrophic house fire. It started late Monday afternoon when the Continue ReadingA Near-Miss Disaster: How a Faulty Fuse Box Almost Turned Our Home Into a Bonfire
Just wow! I’ve never seen the air quality this bad: My deepest thoughts and prayers are with our Canadian neighbors: I am deeply sorry that some people in the United Continue ReadingAir Quality Alert And A Message To Our Canadian Neighbors
I captured this gorgeous Black-eyed Susan (a/k/a yellow cone flower) back on June 21 while visiting North Park: The Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta), a perennial plant, is renowned for its Continue ReadingThe Beauty of Black-eyed Susans
Do you know where flags go when their service is complete? At the North Park Flag Retirement Plaza. This beautiful space is part of the 80th Division Monument & Garden Continue ReadingThe Final Salute: Flag Retirement At North Park
If you’ve driven down a country road or passed a wild roadside patch in mid-summer, you’ve definitely met the Orange Day-lily (Hemerocallis fulva). Brilliant, bold, and fiercely independent, these fiery Continue ReadingWild, Orange, and Resilient: The Day-Lily
Did you know Allegheny Cemetery has early 1900s mausoleums inspired by Ancient Egypt? These gorgeous examples of Egyptian Revival architecture often belonged to Masons, who shared deep symbolic ties to Continue ReadingEgyptian Influences At Allegheny Cemetery