As one friend told me, this is a perfect example of a slice of life photograph. I am not sure if, during the Civil War, whether any of the persons who were involved in the war had the opportunity to sleep so comfortably on the battlefield. But, it certainly romanticizes the moment and the era…. Read more »
Monthly Archives:: September 2011
Blanket of White
Feeling rather chilly this morning, 53 F at what is supposed to be just the beginning of Fall, I began thinking of the last winter which ran through the North East of the country and set record lows and snowfall depths – 8″ there, 12″ in other places. It was certainly one of the roughest… Read more »
Hypnotic Swirls
As the season slowly changes to the cooler days of Fall, I thought I would take a moment to reminisce of the summer and one of the things that I saw that I thought was interesting. To the left you can see one of those scenes. This was taken at the Buttermilk Falls down in… Read more »
Boots of Valor
America’s Civil War pitted the Confederate Army from most southern states against the Federal Army from the nothern states. Besides being a war of ideology and interpretation of the Constitution it also placed families, friends and allies against each other – a social upheaval. That is just a synopsis, and as much as I could… Read more »
Trinity
The last time I caught three flowers clustered together it was a shot I took in a friends garden. I ended up naming the photograph “Blossom in Three” under my Garden Gems collection. Here, I was visiting Thornton Park’s Rose Garden in down town Syracuse after a morning rainfall. There was a sort of, as… Read more »