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Mother’s Day 2024
Happy Day of Celebrating Mothers! I hope all who have nurtured new generations of humans and nonhumans felt celebrated for their super power called Mothering. Today’s date, May 13th, is a bittersweet date for my family and me. It marks ten years since the last evening my mother experienced life. She passed away early…
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Laugh Now/Cry Later
Mako shark on the cleaning table. Montauk, NY 2008 “With their pointed snouts, slender gill slits, cobalt-blue skin, flashing metallic sides and white bellies, North Atlantic shortfin mako sharks are a stunning sight. They’re deadly fast, too, reaching speeds up to 45 miles per hour — the fastest sharks in the ocean. As apex predators, they evolved in…
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The Halloween Rally Before Election Day
My camera urged me to pick it up yesterday and head over to Port Jefferson, NY, to capture some images of an event that was taking place there, in front of the building with the giant ice cream cone, across from the dock for the ferry to Bridgeport, Connecticut. That cone has has been punctuating…
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The Eastern Calligrapher
While in my garden in search of subjects to photograph for my macro exercises I spotted this flying insect enjoying the flowers of my kale plants. It was a very accommodating model as it lingered long on the flowers. I thought it was a type of bee. The insect guide tells me it’s a Syrphid,…
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FaceTimed Good-bye to a Loved One.
Sal Aragona (August 18, 1929 – April 23, 2020) Today, Wednesday, April 29th, we drove to Rose Safina’s house to FaceTime the burial service of her brother, Sal Aragona. Sal passed away last week from long-term health issues. He left peacefully surrounded by his daughters. Due to concerns over taking Rose to the cemetery in…
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Easter Sunday 2020
Setauket and Stony Brook, NY, under the COVID-19 pandemic. I woke up this morning with some regret that I had not made more of an effort to travel into NYC to photograph the absence of an Easter Parade on Fifth Avenue, but with the COVID-19 situation I know it was the right thing to do…
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