When the truth gets buried deep
Beneath the thousand years of sleep
Time demands a turn-around
And once again the truth is found
Awakening the Hurdy Gurdy Man
Who comes singing songs of love.
~ Donovan
If you happen to be passing through the Public Garden in Boston on a nice day, chances are you will come across The Hurdy Gurdy Man (Donald Heller) and his trusty dog, Mack (Mackie), singing songs of love…among other subjects!
Another shot taken on my recent trip to York in the UK. These guys really made a great noise. I loved the guys on the rights hair.
The last of the Thanksgiving guests had gone, two days of parties were over (oh my what a fabulous holiday!) and it was time to revisit the Monochromia post that I’d scheduled over 2 weeks ago. As I looked at it, I knew … I just wasn’t feeling it and a change had to be made.
I sat at my desk and stared out the window and pondered the situation. The last three day’s photography efforts were all about family and friends. Copious amounts of food and drink had left me contentedly sluggish. What to do, what to do?
So there you have it. The view from my chair.
I’m thankful for a holiday that celebrates gratitude … and thankful, too, for the opportunity to be a part of Monochromia.
A right of passage for many high school juniors is the Spring Break college visit trip. And so it was for me and my daughter last March. Instead of heading south to warmer temperatures, we headed north, ultimately reaching Maine. And along the way we encountered dropping temperatures, a frozen Lake Champlain in Vermont, and of course, snow.
This night, snow fell silently on the small town of Hamilton in upstate New York. A quintessential New England town, there is a 1925, Dutch-colonial style inn that anchors the Village Green, and it is from a balcony there that I took this shot. I didn’t have a tripod, but I had a wooden railing, which served admirably.
This is one of my favorite images from the 8-day, 10-state, 11-school, 1850-mile trip. And my daughter? She wants to go to school in California.
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Complexity and Simplicity
Wishing you all a perfect balance of the complex and the simple.
Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate!
Sony RX100 – 1/200 @ f/4.0 – ISO 800
This gentleman was trying to get thirty five dollars total for the day so he can have a safe place to sleep. I gave my share.
A lovely scene of two friends having dinner together.
A view of the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health treats patients with Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s and Parkinson’s disease, as well as frontotemporal dementia and multiple sclerosis. Designed by world famous architect Frank Gehry, it opened on May 21, 2010 in Las Vegas NV.
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