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Photo of the Day: Napoleon was here
This isn’t much of a photo but the story behind them makes it interesting. Napoleon’s presence is still felt all over Croatia. His forts perch on top of mountains. One of our guides spoke of him with admiration: he came … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: The corn is as high as an elephant’s eye
Near where I grew up. Right down the road, really. They’ve been growing corn there as long as I can remember, and when I would drive home for visits over the years, you’d see the corn at different stages of … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: To the Jungle Room
View from the little downstairs hallway in Graceland, to the stairway leading up to the famed Jungle Room. Green shag carpet on the walls and ceiling. Because that’s how Elvis rolled.
Photo of the Day: 42nd Street before Lion King
I arrived in New York just in time to experience the final gasps of smut. Times Square was a wasteland of boarded up porn-theatres and peep shows, with rickety “decor” along the exteriors, showing the buildings’ seedy show-biz beginnings. There … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: Meet me in Montauk
One day, Allison and I drove out to Montauk. It took us 3 hours to get there, 3 to get back – if you’ve been to Montauk then you know that the last stretch, and it’s a long stretch, is … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: North Dakota
When we drove across the country – taking months on end – endless awful months – we lingered in North Dakota. There was something about the landscape there that really spoke to both of us. We were in North Dakota … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: A work in progress
Nearly 20 years after the attack on the World Trade Center, the 1 line Cortlandt Street station finally re-opened the year before last. It took that long, the destruction was so total. It’s a beautiful subway station … which puts … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: In honor of MLB opening day …
I took this at around 8 a.m., maybe even earlier, on New Year’s Day in Memphis. It was a wild day. I walked everywhere. I walked for miles and miles. I saw no one. Not a car on the road. … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: The thing about beach sunrises is …
… no two are the same. I’ve got a lot of sunrises here. They’re always surprising. This one was EXTREMELY glamorous. Like a Marlene Dietrich sunrise. Stark and black and white and dominating.
Photo of the Day: Bicycle races are coming your way
I took this in the Mesozoic Era when I lived in Germantown, outside Philadelphia. A bicycle race was coming through Mt. Airy, where my boyfriend and I lived, so we went out to join the throngs along the road. I … Continue reading