Take Off

City of Brotherly Love Skyscape

What Trees Leave

Rescue or Capture?

The Red Baron & Baroness (aka Ma & Pa)

Framed

This is a photographic-shout-out to my photographer phriend Stef Davenport for bringing out my inner Pocahontas, by-way of orange gel over strobe.

RIP Chippy

We found an abandoned baby squirrel.
I tried to raise it like my own, but sadly, he didn't make it.

In-Flight Hilarity

Besides reaching my final destination, the best part of flying is the inflight reading provided in the seat pocket. I'm a fan of the old standard, Sky Mall , which is quite possibly the best comedy magazine ever. Check out the bizarre (the evac-u-8 smoke hood) and ridiculous inventions.

Our most recent trip, to Philly, to visit Victor, we abondoned the Sky Mall for Air Tran's magazine, Go.

Go was seemingly standard airline reading, complete with way-too-easy crossword, lists of boring restaurants, and the usual "Thanks for flying with us" letter from the airline's CEO. That was until we came to page 61 where the best worst photo in the history of advertising photography was displayed. The accompanying story was titled “Taken For A Ride: Top 10 Theme Parks”--an appropriate title given the scary whale ride granny was subjected to. We almost fell out of seats, numerous times.

Cloudy Lines Lane, Philadelphia

Project Complete

Three weeks and multiple shots later, I've completed a giganto project. Requirements: Studio Portraits, Location Portraits, and Still Lifes.

Philadelphia

Socked

Tribute to Stephen Shore's Uncommon Places: Philadephia

Kitty Corner

Logan en route to Philadephia

Logan

Seedy Tire

Tired Weed

The Hidden Beauty of MIT

Sidewalk Swirl

MIT's Scientists Need Your Help

Open photo to see that although there is no unifying language, there is one unifying demand.

The Scientists' Pleas

Puerto Rican Festival: Franklin Park

Tough Girls

Photo Restoration

The Newlyweds

Poppy, Restored

Mi Pop, Little Chuckie.

Rustic

Rusty & Rustic

Busy, like a ......

I'm busy lady, outta my way.

Showered

Some kind of flower

Kleiner Alex

Alex' first school day with his box of gummibaerle and kinder schokolade!

Restoration of Mommy

Mommy Makes a Comeback (my Mommy that is)

Not Fast and Not Sighted

A driver you probably don't want to meet

Sillouette of Seattle

The PI Globe

6 Feet Above

When I was alive, I looked more lively. Monument-to-Self, Forest Hills Cemetery.

Hitchcockish

Hitchcockish

Tree-T

Organic vs. Man-made

Getting Friendly with the Funereal

I've been called morbid, dark and even troubled because of my periodic/chronic/episodic obsession with death and dying--Worry not, I'm far from suicidal. Death just seems so....well...final. Given I can’t control the fact that one day I won’t be here, it seems like I should at least accept that truth.

If you want to face what awaits you, I suggest you follow this recipe:
1. Start with season one of Six Feet Under and work your way up to the final season;
2. Read Mary Roach's book Stiff;
3. Picnic, walk, and bike ride in your neighborhood cemetery, or come out to Jamaica Plain and head to my local haunt, Forest Hills Cemetery .

Note: If you haven't seen Six Feet Under or read Stiff, I highly recommend you do while you're still alive. As for Forest Hills, you should check it out also; it's one of the more redeeming sights of Boston.

Forest Hills is unique in that the usual piles of Boston trash are absent, it's quiet and it's beautiful—the only other place that fits that description is my living room.

You need not be a grave robber to know that its residents thought themselves important--they clearly had wallets as big as their egos (think Monument-to-self and Mausoleum).

There aint no paupers' but there are a few poets-- e.e. cummings and Anne Sexton are here.

Of course not all tombstones are lovely, but that doesn't mean they're not memorable.

Take One: Unhappy Husband

Take Two: Alex Acquiesces

96% Unseen

I came upon this really cool mapping tool byway of Metro Dad (btw: if you're looking for Tales From The Crib, go there, not only is it hilarious its also quite scary).

I thought I'd travelled a fair bit and then I created my map and it turns out I have a lot more travelling to do--I've only seen 4% of this world's countries.

Here's my travel map:

Make your own map

Seen States (I wish they'd pick a different color for places seen.
Tis way too election 04ish for me.)

Photo Show

My very first photography show happens to be tomorrow night.

It’s not a one woman show--my entire photography class is showing--but hey, maybe next time. ;)

There’s no real overarching theme to the body of photos I chose, I just chose photos I like.

If you get a chance, take a look. And if you have opinions, please feel free to share them, good or bad.

Here’s the shutterfly link:
http://share.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=EeANnLhizbOWbUtg¬ag=1

Emerald City Recap

Our trip home to the Emerald City was fabu. Alex beat me to the punch by writing about it so I won't duplicate his effort, instead, I'll send you to his post.

Why the Emerald City is better than Bean Town: Reason number 943

Mt. Rainier. View from Bainbridge Island, home to my people.