Category: Photography
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Wrigley Field: a photographic essay: baseball on the fringes.
Built in 1914, Wrigley Park is known to be the oldest original Big League Baseball park still remaining in America. It is shortly to be cleaned up and renovated a little so John and I went up to Chicago to join Chg John in a last look before it is changed. I had never been…
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Small Town America: Not Just Route 66
This is where I found my pears. Small Town America is everywhere. Not just on Route 66, though that is just down the road. Such a beautiful little town. It may look a little tattered and tired, All the small towns around here look like this.. But first appearances can be deceptive, character comes in…
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Beauty Is as Beauty Does.
Sometimes we don’t need many words. Sometimes we need the words of the masters. Because we are surrounded in beauty. “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” ― Anne Frank “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.” ― Marc Riboud “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”…
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Old Man Wind Brings The Challenge.
The hay man came a day early to bale the hay (the rain clouds were gathering) but it was not dry. It was green. Too green. So with my heart in my mouth I said maybe we can look at it again tomorrow. Maybe it would not rain. The fella sighed with relief. He had…
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Periscope Pig
Sheila lives in the Corridor Paddock and sleeps in the Sun Room of the barn. But when she lays down she makes sure that her snout is poking through the gate that leads to the corridor in the barn. Like a short stout periscope. Her nose is always sure to get a wee scratch as…
The Kitchen's Garden 