October 29, 2024
Like an obedient consumer, I love a good 2-for. Cheap price for two things I don’t need, yes! But in adventuring, a good 2-for is even more exciting. So when there are ruins of an old amusement park in a gorgeous scenic park in the peak of the foliage season, Read more…
August 14, 2024
April 2, 2024
After a ride through the mountains I was at Lake Shawnee’s grounds for a tour. Long on my list, the grounds were teeming with life though dormant for quite some time. Read through its sorted past here.
November 4, 2023
Ok, so this amusement park isn’t abandoned per se, but it is vacated for the winter season… shut down and stripped of its colorful cars… and exuding the same eerie energy. I captured the vacant color close to dusk on a brisk autumn day. The structures seemed to pang for Read more…
August 14, 2023
June 30, 2023
Beautiful Places Far Away, Box-free Baking, Breakfast, Cakes & Cupcakes, Cookies, Cooking Stuff, Eating Out
The Waxing Crescent. I am enjoying photographing the waning and waxing phases as their partial illumination and stark black is so beautiful. Cookies for Mom. Ghiradelli finally makes vegan chocolate chips. They’re yummy of course… because they’re chocolate chips Soft dough… maybe because of the humidity They flattened out a Read more…
April 30, 2023
And with that, it is now May. As this year continues to blaze at unprecedented speed, an addition to the everyday archive, April style. Making cookies as usual My hair is pretty big and long these days. Somewhere around this length I always wind up chopping off. What should I Read more…
September 25, 2022
Dropping off a rental car early (Ok, really early), I got to see a carnival in Bellmore, Long Island in a beautiful state. The hushed and still amusements played wonderfully with dawn’s light. Also spied, the carnies trailers. I think I would like to be a carnie for a summer.
August 31, 2022
This small little wonder was close to an abandoned site I visited. So I captured it in a new quest to photograph as many of these as I can! Do you know where there’s another? Please tell me.
August 20, 2022
Casa de Campo is Madrid’s largest park… covering 1535,52 hectares (almost 6 miles). We planned on having a day to explore its many features, but the temperature was just so hot. And the park was not as lush as I had in my mind. In fact the ground had a Read more…
July 23, 2022
Watch out. If I know you don’t mind photoshoots at the whim of my fancy, you may be a redneck… sipping on a tall boy, sauntering through a carnival, with nothing more to do than lean on the car. Though this shoot was initially planned to be at the monster Read more…
June 18, 2022
After a two-year in-person hiatus, finally the Mermaid Parade returned to Coney Island, Brooklyn! That meant I need to transform into a mermaid… starting with my hair. Well, I suppose it was mostly not my hair. But it sure made me want to grow it out! Now if my hair Read more…
August 25, 2021
On the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse is the annual The Great New York State Fair. Being a fan of carnivals, state fairs have been on my bucket list for quite some time. NY ❌ State Fair Core Vegan Eats at the New York State Fair, 2021 Though there Read more…
July 24, 2021
Jumping into Coney Island after many days of being away, my love for Brooklyn surged. There is nothing like this place. Nowhere. So while waiting to get into the Brooklyn Cyclones game, I had to capture all I could as it hummed and buzzed and knocked into me and didn’t Read more…
July 4, 2021
You would think that a waterpark in the Mojave Desert might have staying power–and it did from 1962 to 2002. During that time the renditions of the space, named Lake Dolores (after the manmade lake named after the owner’s wife), Rock–A–Hoola Waterpark (a version of the waterpark that blared Oldies from Read more…
July 2, 2021
In El Cajon, California is the remains of Marshal Scotty’s Playland Park. The amusement park opened in 1967 and enjoyed success until the 90’s. Since the owner was forced to file for bankruptcy in 1990 parts of the property has been used as a day camp, a go-cart raceway, and, Read more…
June 4, 2021
Since it’s been a minute (2009), I feel it’s time to profess my love for Carnivals. There is something magical about all the onsets of Summer. And carnivals are wrapped up in that ertia (a word I made up meaning the opposite of inertia)… one of the many colorful ways Read more…
April 25, 2021
Though it was a chilly April afternoon, a visit to Coney Island says just one thing: Summer. My goal, get on the Cyclone–a literal roller coaster ride for the figurative one this past year has been. And I screamed loud enough for a multi-faceted cathartic release… with the additional incentive Read more…
October 22, 2019
{It’s My Party 🎉, Part 5} I was really hoping to see some of the abandoned Chippewa Lake Park in Chippewa Lake, Ohio… but the Universe had me encountering a selection of townspeople, kind of like a video game, instead. {I swear I was hearing Castlevania Simon’s Quest music in my Read more…
August 12, 2019
Officially one of my Favorite Things, I wanted to remind you all of the evocative beauty of the Swing Ride. These are from the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, Morey’s Pier in Wildwood, New Jersey, and Adventureland in Farmingdale, New York. The latter two are of my youth, where the Read more…