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Upstate Adventure

Though I often hit the road on my own, it isn’t too long until I start encountering characters who seem placed in my path deliberately, who contribute pleasant tangents of concentrated humanity out of the woodwork in passing. Perhaps it is of my own manifesting, drawing out from the periphery Read more…


Another Long Island Excursion

Anywhere I’ve never been is a great place to go! So we hit the ferry to see what was shaking on Shelter Island, off Long Island’s North Fork, before the season starts and it gets way more annoying. View from the ferry, or the floating parking lot. Whichever you prefer. Read more…


Vegan in Fairbanks, Alaska
Welcome to Fairbanks

After a long day of travel, I arrived in Fairbanks at 2 a.m. But before the excitement of that moment, there was a lot of staring out airplane windows at pretty frost forming. The white in the cracks of the country below Saying goodbye to the Lower 48 as I Read more…


Return to Downtown Camp Hero
Montauk, Long Island {Pictorial}


Into the Camp Hero Radar πŸ“‘

The most intriguing place on Long Island, Camp Hero’s remains keep drawing me back in. Every time is just as exciting and adrenaline-surging as the very first. But this time, in we went, knowing that access points fluctuate and an unfortunate accident on the frighteningly dilapidated stairwell, and the structure’s Read more…


Some Florida Outtakes

Sky from plane. Welcome cauliflower tacos from Cholo Soy Cantina in West Palm Beach. 😎 😎 Delicious salad from Green Zebra in Sarasota, Florida. Their famous Raw Pancake… dehydrated banana pancake made from hemp seeds, chia seeds, cashew, and flax served with cashew cream, strawberry chia coulis, and fresh banana Read more…


πŸ–οΈ Life’s a Beach… And A Natural Spring Pool… And A National Wildlife Refuge

Finding beauty in Florida is very easy. As I settle back into a real November in New York, some pictures from the Sunshine State. The first beach stop is always the most powerful: A quick spontaneous stop at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge–the FIRST National Wildlife Refuge in the country, Read more…


Birthdaze 2021 πŸ₯³:
Pretty Rochester, NY {Pictorial}

Turning Point Park Durand Eastman Park & Beach


Vegan Bites in Albany

Happy to be right across the street from Cider Belly Doughnuts for ease of breakfast fulfillment–for both vegans and not-vegans. Also, an oat milk latte from Dunkin’ because of convenience. I bought two for me… thinking I’d have one now and later. Buuuut, it was more now and now on Read more…


Scenes From a Summer, Part 2

A picture purge while Summer moves along… Clouds attack. Lots electricity in the air. The Golden Hour. Narrows Botanical Garden rose check-in The Sun… see what I did there? So much beauty Red velvet from Little Cupcake Bakeshop This stuff rocks. Preserving the summer’s hairstyle before it changes… Bunny Lebowski-inspired Read more…


Letchworth State Park (Day)

The highly accoladed Letchworth State Park is one of New York’s gems. Though I knew I was more interested in spending time there after the sun and the moon set, given its darker sky but close proximity to Rochester, the daytime brought easy views of the park’s prominent features: waterfalls. Read more…


Take A Walk
Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge Pictorial


California Desert Adventure β˜€οΈ
Death Valley National Park (Day)

According to the handy digital thermometer at the visitor center at Death Valley National Park, the day would reach a high of 117 degrees F. Though during my previous visit to the park in 2017 the temperature maxed out at 124, tonight’s night time low–which I didn’t stay for previously–would Read more…


California Desert Adventure β˜€οΈ
Quick Respite in San Diego

After a few nights roughing it, a self-care day in San Diego. It started with Split Bakehouse, an all-vegan bakery I was really looking forward to. It’s inside a food court in a mall, but the food court has a bunch of dediacted vegan eateries. That is vegan friendly! Take Read more…


Fire in the Sky

When she shows up on her way out, after a day of grey, it’s pretty spectacular. Enough to pull over on the side of the road. A gallery that rotates and revolves, leaving you in the dark. The Erie Canal reflecting the fire. How spectacular, the birth and death of Read more…


Pretty, Pretty

It’s the season of pretty, when color comes back to captivate. Spring has a haunting power that beckons, that determines winter’s way of life no longer tolerable. Inside the inability to capture this intangible, pictures of colorful things that impart a small fraction of its feeling. Counting the colors of Read more…


Vegan Pizza on Long Island
Pazzo Ristorante in Wading River

After a long day of exploring, we needed some sustenance. With several vegan options on their menu, it was Pazzo Ristorante that replenished our energy. This pie, the Brendan’s Sweet sauce & Vegan Cheese pie, was absolutely heavenly. And they have plenty more vegan bites to try after future exploring Read more…


Florida Trees, Florida Sky

Ringing in the New Year in the tropics, these beautiful trees/beautiful sky are surely a welcome retreat from my usual couch time in Brooklyn. With the last few days being busier that the last few weeks combined, I’ve neglected you dear blog, archive of daily wonderment. So after a mission Read more…


The Sky at Sunken Meadow State Park

To follow, light in various wavelengths from Long Island’s Sunken Meadow State Park. The scouted location seemed to be the best option to view the Geminids Meteor Shower in light of a wide-reaching cloud cover and an emergency dentist appointment to make in Brooklyn the follow morning. Unfortunately the bright Read more…


The Golden Hour to the Blue Hour

Getting ready for a ton of amazing views on my upcoming trip, I wanted to try out my landscape lens during the Golden Hour, the time right before sunset (or right after sunrise) when the light illuminates beautifully with a softer reddish hue, as well as the Blue Hour–the time Read more…


Scenes from a Quarantine, Part 10

Despite the continuing of restrictions, I try to get out often and stay busy–but safely. And since my car is not mine anymore, I have been sampling all kinds of mass transit. My favorite: The Ferry. My bike, here, at the Brooklyn Army Terminal when I missed a ferry. And Read more…


Scenes from a Quarantine, Part 9

I found fibonacci perfection in this daisy along my walk. The rose season moves into daisy and lily days. One of the reasons I love summer in New York City. Tajin covered perfectly ripe mango for $3 on the street. Black Lives Matter outside Staten Island’s Borough Hall. But I’m Read more…


Parks & Rec: Brooklyn
Owl’s Head Park

Owl’s Neck Park has some great looking trees. And when you’re cooped up inside and feeling humdrum, it’s nice to be able to appreciate a tree–a tall and mighty tree that reaches continuously. It grows not by discernible leaps but gradually everyday, stretching to both to the sky and in Read more…


The Sky in Geauga Observatory Park
Montville, OH

{It’s My Party πŸŽ‰, Part 2} Geauga Observatory Park is an IDA-certified International Dark Sky Park a quick hour from Cleveland. One of 56 dark sky parks in the country, it is my 3rd I have visited in an astrophotography capacity. Not bad considering it was less than a year Read more…


Blessed Are The Intrepid, Day 15:
Into the Wild Again

The day would start in a place far from where it would end, in West Palm Beach’s budding downtown–within its brightly colored murals and instagram opportunities, its hip eateries. In the span of just a few hours I was within Florida’s “Prairie”–its cowboy apparel stores, fields of grazing cows who Read more…


Blessed Are The Intrepid, Day 13:
Life Aquatic

The potential of one day is pretty mind-blowing. Waking up in our adorable green pastel RV in Key Largo’s Sunset Cove Resort we headed to the renowned John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, the country’s first undersea park. Though our snorkeling tour had been cancelled the previous day due to Read more…