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Mt Washington Hotel – A View of the Presidents
The Mt Washington Hotel is within shouting distance of the Presidential Range of the White Mountains. You can see the Cog Railway going up the side of Mt Washington to the summit visitor center and,...
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New Hampshire — Visiting A Glass Blower
Blowing glass is hot, hard work. Nathan Macomber collects glass from the “glory hole” to begin a new piece for the Mt. Sunapee Fair. In Nathan’s workshop, the finished glass is ready for packing and...
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Colma–San Francisco’s Historic Cemetery
About 2000 people call Colma their home, but below ground lie more than a million former residents of San Francisco and the Bay Area. Colma is a necropolis just south of San Francisco: the city motto...
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Porsche Electric Car, 1898 Edition
Not a wagon, but an electric car with a 50 mile range and a top speed of over 20 mph. This is the Porsche model P1, one of four built in 1898, by Ferdinand Porsche, the founder of Porsche car …...
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Think Spring — A visit to Gamble Garden
Mahonia Sikkeimensis (sik-im-EN-sis) in full bloom. Or, maybe a splash of red. There is blue, too. The Pansies are ready to be set out, but what if it frosts? It’s the first of February and there was a...
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Moment: Stopped At Union and Columbus
Stopped at the street light on Columbus, I was waiting for the lunch crowd to cross so that I could get a picture of the landmark Saints Peter and Paul Church. In a moment they had crossed the street...
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Swarm: Watching the Peloton Pass By
It’s rainy here, so I looked to the TV for Swarms and found them in the Tour de France bicycle race. These riders are trying to catch the leaders (or stay ahead of the rain storm at their back). But …...
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Landscape: View From The Dining Room
A view through the reeds and across the lake to the hills beyond. This work by San Francisco hand weaver Sheila O’Hara hangs in our dining room. We have a view of the outdoors, even on foggy, rainy...
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Edge: Blue Stones and Stainless Steel
The buildings and art on the Med School campus are edgy and modern, which fits in well with the high technology approach to medical education. I imagine laser beams and magnetic fields when I walk in...
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Double:Two Lamps Lighting Mt. Washington
Mt Washington hotel began life in 1902 as a luxury railway hotel at the foot of Mt Washington, New Hampshire’s highest peak. In 1944 the hotel was rescued from obscurity by holding the Bretton Woods...
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Self Expression — Blue as the Sea
On a clear winter day, a trip to the Palo Alto Baylands shows off the bay at it’s very best. Kayakers are also enjoying the calm water and warm weather. Always a pleasure to visit the Palo Alto...
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On the road to Glacier National Park
Stopping at roadside historical markers is a pleasant way to break the monotony of a long drive. I took this photo in 2012 at the marker for the Somers Spur Line that once connected the Great Northern...
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Fresh – Spring Day, San Diego
It was the first day of spring, and the weather was like summer in Balboa Park, San Diego. The closing lines of Shakespeare’s sonnet are engraved beneath his image. The Old Globe Theater is deserted on...
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Blur — Mountain of my youth
Taking leave from my ship in Keelung Harbor, I rode the bus to Taipei, and spent the day in a verdant park: I was a boy, I thought I’d always be a boy, pell—mell, mean, and gaily murderous one moment …...
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Afloat at Pillar Point Harbor
Genesis rests in her slip on a sunny day in spring — Pillar Point Harbor, California, USA. From the Pillar Point Harbor web site: Pillar Point is unique because it provides search and rescue services...
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Motion: Cyclists Passing Through
These bikers were caught in my photo by accident—An early morning walk toward the beach along a winding path at Asilomar State Beach yielded this glimpse of cyclists riding along the edge of the...
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Forces of Nature — Belize
Nature slowly reclaims the jungle in Belize from development: first came the Mayans, then the British, and finally the Confederates fleeing the aftermath of the US Civil War. I came upon the crumbling...
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Vivid — First graders Interpret Africa
Cultural Kaleidoscope — Dogon Masks by First Graders This vivid mask was inspired by the Dogon people of Mali in northwest Africa. Masks on this theme were created for the 2015 Cultural Kaleidoscope...
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Off Season — Yosemite Falls in Winter
Off Season— The empty Yosemite bus pulled away leaving us with a clear view of Yosemite Falls. This photo was taken on a mid-week day in January, 2010; a few inches of early snow had been cleared and...
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Door — Argentina welcomed us
Here is a selection of doors, photographed on a trip to Argentina that I took with a group of adventurous fiber artists (weavers and spinners). The locals were very gracious to open their doors to our...
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