qui custodes custodiet?

elfintech posted a photo: I wonder if he’s a flickrite. While I was sitting, people-watching and photographing in Central Park weekend before last, this cute photographer–and a fellow Nikon DSLR user to boot–walked by, and I snapped a few shots of him snapping a shot of the Sheep Meadow. [best at large or original sizes]

as american as mom and (big) apple pie

Our weekend in New York with my mother went swimmingly. She had a great time on her first trip to the Big Apple, and wants to go again. Saturday morning we took a cab–my mother’s first taxi ride–to Union Station to catch the train to New York. There we met up with my colleagues and […]

home again, home again

After two weeks of travel, I’m back home again for a brief respite; this coming weekend is gaming down at Sheldon’s in Suffolk, Virginia, and the following weekend Jeff and I fly out to Seattle for three days, making four weekends in a row I’ll have been away from home. I’ve enjoyed the travel, and […]

reflecting in new york

elfintech posted a photo: the base of a war memorial in Battery Park; this close-up, with the sharp contrast and the patterns in the stone almost like brushstrokes, ended up looking like an oil painting, quite serendipitously

feeding time for geckos

elfintech posted a photo: a (cute, serendipitously) keeper at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha opens the back door, as I’m observing the geckos from the front, and proceeds to sprinkle handfuls of live crickets around the cage