We are in the peak of the fall season here in northern Virginia. Colors are riotous. Leaves are equally abundant in trees on the ground. Temperatures have fallen and the smell of the first burning firewood is in the air, whips of smoke from chimneys curling into the early morning sky around the neighborhood. Here’s…
For an overview of this series, see the debut post on my morning routine. Background I don’t know about you, but I’ve got too many photos in my photo library and I don’t know what to do with them all. They are all digital, of course, so they don’t take up space. But there are…
We had perfect weather for Independence Day, after a weekend filled mostly with rain. So we piled all of the kids into our cars yesterday and drove to a state park north of New York City in order to spend some time outdoors. There are certain landscape scenes that I find calming, and I managed…
This time of year I can often be heard saying, “You can’t appreciate spring until you’ve been through winter.” By “you” I mean me of course. I lived in Los Angeles for nearly 20 years and I missed spring there dreadfully because winter was nothing more than pages on a calendar. On my walk this…
There are 25,766 photos in my digital photo library. On seeing that number recently, I longed for the days of film cameras with 24- and 36-roll clips of film. Back then, if you wanted to take a picture, you needed to make sure it was worth one of those 24 exposures. Now, it seems, I…
I wish clearing up my digital photos was as easy as clearing out the house for moving. There are a lot of things I am unsentimental about. I get rid of old clothes without a second glance. Marie Kondo would be proud. I look at something that’s been stored away for ages and dump it.…
I will in an all-day planning retreat today checking email, and various social media only periodically throughout the day. While I’m away from the Internets, here is a picture of the sunrise as I walked through the Santa Monica City Hall parking lot on my way into the office this morning. I remember this sunrise…
It’s official: my photo of Harry’s Bar in Venice, Italy was accepted by Schmap and is now part of their website. The backstory. For those who want to see it, you can find the photo (along with attribution) here. Those of you with an iPhone or an iPod Touch might try the special iPhone version…
Yesterday, I got finally got a brief rejection note from Strange Horizons for “The Golden Watch”. It took 49 days from start to finish and that is nearly twice as long as any other story I’ve sent them. I’d like to think it meant I got farther along in the process, but the one-sentence message…
I’ve uploaded several more photosets: Miletus and Didyma, Turkey (228 photos) Rhodes, Greece (75 photos) Santorini, Greece (163 photos) Naples, Vesuvius and Pompeii (354 photos)
My flight home is at noon local time today and I wanted to get some more photos uploaded before I headed off, so here are several batches more. The individual photo are, as of yet, unlabeled, but I’ll get around to that eventually… Korfu, Greece and Vow Renewals (37 photos) Athens, Greece (275 photos) Mykonos,…
Okay, here are some photos from the first few days of my trip. I’ve still got tons more to post, but this should be a decent start: Munich and Venice Day 1 (32 pictures) Venice Day 2 (64 pictures) Leaving Venice/The Walls of Dubrovnik (268 pictures) First formal night and a day of rest for…