May 16, 2021
Wanting to catch Yayoi Kusama’s Cosmic Nature art installation throughout New York Botanical Garden‘s beautiful grounds, I took a quick trip to the New York City borough I am in least often… The Bronx. With Spring’s blooms in effect and warm weather, the winding paths were bustling with life. It Read more…
November 28, 2020
With beautiful weather and the price gouging of Thanksgiving over, I rented a car and hit the road. On the itinerary was a visit to Springfield Cemetery in Springfield, Massachusetts… to see a sculptured woman I’ve been long admiring. When I entered the historic cemetery I was struck by her Read more…
October 10, 2020
Staten Island’s Moravian Cemetery has it all–death heads and winged soul effigies on centuries old headstones, intriguing epitaphs, beautiful angels, heartbreaking modern-day memorials, lush green overgrowth, gorgeous trees, peace… quiet. Meandering through its paths in Autumn is the stuff that Cemetery Season is all about. Leaves are turning I found Read more…
October 4, 2020
To officially kick off the Cemetery Season, I wandered through Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery for hours, purposely not finding my way to my favorite monuments. I wanted to discover the parts that I had never explored, the parts I had passed along the way. Within this quest, I found so much Read more…
August 31, 2020
Sorry but I think the Maben Angel is more attractive than most living women. Is that weird? She’s way fierce. So after I left my apartment within quarantine to get a Covid and antibodies test in advance of maybe returning to school next week, I paid her a visit. Because Read more…
August 24, 2020
Rhyolite was another Gold Rush Boomtown. It’s quick rise was short-lived, however–the Panic of 1907 rocked Rhyolite and it never recovered. Its mine closed in 1911 and the town officially died in 1916. Now it has some new life as the recipient of various art installations including Albert Szukalski’s Last Read more…
July 22, 2020
Since I declared my intention of visiting all of Virginia’s dark sky parks and camping three evenings, forces of nature have threw me some curveballs. But I subscribe to several related philosophies that have me generally accepting, catching curveballs and admiring each. Though my que sera sera-ness might not serve Read more…
June 30, 2020
Like most beautiful cemeteries (and asylums) I can spend hours within, Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, a National Historical Place, was established in the mid-1800’s. I explored most of its 555 acres with my rental car because the heat was unbearable. But I ran out of the car like 600 Read more…
June 18, 2020
Since I returned to my school briefly of course I had to visit Green-Wood Cemetery. And yet again I saw some things I had never seen before! After all my visits I am still quite sure there are paths I have never walked down… things I have yet to admire. Read more…
June 12, 2020
An afternoon at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery would bring new discoveries, even more reasons to love its grounds. And since I’ve been carless for 11 days , I walked there from my apartment… just to see how long it would take. It was an easy walk that I’ll likely do again! Read more…
February 19, 2020
I’d like to rest my heavy head tonight on a bed of California stars… I’d like to lay my weary bones tonight on a bed of California stars 🎶 I’d love to feel your hand touching mine and tell me why I must keep working on. Yes I’d give my Read more…
On solo mission now, a trip to the dark sky desert. Arriving with plenty of blazing sun, I captured the remote landscape… inhabited by enormous sculpture by artist Ricardo Breceda. Borrego Springs is a magical place where one can easily get a soy latte but also be in the middle Read more…
December 28, 2019
I really wish I lived closer to Woodlawn Cemetery‘s 400 acres, the grounds of my Bronx angel hunt. It is one of my favorites in New York City. One can easily lose an entire day here. But I fine-tuned my search by hunting down the familiar angel faces I saw Read more…
December 22, 2019
There are tons of cemeteries adjacent to each other in Queens in an area called the Cemetery Belt. There are so many cemeteries in this vicinity that my visit today barely scratched the surface! My mission was to try out my new camera and familiarize myself with the area for Read more…
November 29, 2019
I scoured Manhattan for this second report of Angels in the five boroughs. Starting all the way at the bottom and ending all the way at the top. The result a huge selection of big city angels, inside and out, funerary and not, in several mediums. Starting here at the Read more…
November 2, 2019
After some errands I decided the light was too perfect to resist going to Green-Wood Cemetery. This being only the second time photographing the cemetery using manual settings, I gave myself the assignment of taking lady portraits. Close up and intimate on their grief. The cemetery was far too busy Read more…
October 20, 2019
{It’s My Party 🎉, Part 3} Of course there is a historic rural cemetery on my list! Home to the devastatingly wicked Haserot Angel, Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland has been on the very top of my list for quite some time. I’ve been to many cemeteries and this one has Read more…
October 13, 2019
As soon as my friend started describing his new seasonal side gig, terrorizing people at an old Victorian mansion on Staten Island, I knew he was referring to the Kreischer House. And I knew I’d now get to go inside the beautiful home I spied this summer. Dead By Dawn, Read more…
September 30, 2019
Another cemetery on my list gets checked off during my stay in Buffalo–Forest Lawn Cemetery. I explored most of its 269 acres on a brisk fall morning. Here is what I saw. Aspiration. She is he reason for Forest Lawn being on my list. Ever since I saw her in Read more…
September 19, 2019
Back to School means Back to Green-Wood Cemetery. But this season, my 200 mm telephoto lens. Now my zoom can reach the pained expressions close to the heavens—a world of difference from my previous shoots in auto focus. What a fool I was! Camera confident now, I was bummed to Read more…
July 24, 2019
Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal is heavily polluted. The vivid colors of its contaminants caught my eye this day. It was like a Jackson Pollack canvas moving down the water’s surface. Is it horrible that I love how this looks? Yes, yes it is. Brooklyn-beautiful. Not beautiful-beautiful. My bridge in a delightful Read more…
June 1, 2019
Arts & Crafts, Beautiful Places Close By, Eating Out, These are a few of my favorite things., Wanderlust
On this self-care Saturday, I gave myself beautiful things to see and to feel. I like to do this for myself often. In fact, this blog wouldn’t exist if I didn’t enjoy exploring, gratifying my own senses with awe and wonder, seeking things to think about, feel about, talk about. Read more…
February 24, 2019
Rock Creek Cemetery is an 86-acre rural cemetery in Washington DC with some very haunting sculptures. With so many outstanding works registered with the Smithsonian’s Save Outdoor Sculpture initiative, it would be foolish to think that I wouldn’t drive the hour south from Baltimore to see some the gorgeous aged Read more…
February 20, 2019
I want to apologize. Perhaps you came here to my blog to look at food, but all you keep seeing is mournful angels aged to a bright turquoise. And boy (sorrynotsorry) there will be a lot more of that in this post about Albany Rural Cemetery, a gorgeous sprawl of 467 Read more…
February 19, 2019
My only full day in Vermont would be full of trudging about in the snow… which is the only way to do Vermont in the winter. After staying in Barre overnight, I took advantage of my locale by throwing in a early morning stop at a unique tourist attraction, Barre’s Read more…
February 18, 2019
In Montpelier, Vermont’s Green Mount Cemetery upon local businessman Hubbard’s gravesite is a sculpture entitled Thanatos, the Greek word for death. Despite winter-related odds, I would see him. In fact it was only him that had me continuing north in the whipping snow to the gates of the unplowed cemetery. Read more…
