February 26, 2026

Between the storms

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The Upper West Side skyline from the North Meadow ballfields, between our last snowstorm and this one.

February 8, 2025

The Cascade School Supplies building

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From the same snowy hike to the cemetery where I took these pictures… On our way home, we passed this big, dark building covered with what seem like delightful student replicas of famous artworks. The signage is obviously old and the building looked…not necessarily occupied (though it was Thanksgiving weekend) and I half wondered whether the building had been repurposed into some kind of studio or arts collective…but no! It is still a working school supplies company!

January 16, 2025

The living and the dead

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One tree with bright yellow leaves in the foreground of a snowy forest of otherwise leafless trees.

In the foreground of the photo, headstones on the hillside of a snow-dusted cemetery. In the mid-ground, a row of small houses painted blue, yellow, and pale green.
A row of bare trees. A low mountain against a lavender gray sky.

A mossy green lichen grows on the corner of a headstone among green grass and light covering of snow.

Sorting through my last couple of months’ of photography. These are some photos from a snowy walk I took with a friend while we were up in Massachusetts for Thanksgiving week.

February 13, 2024

Hey

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More play with my new camera! Here’s one of my favorite recent shots, from the last snow day in New York before this one.

Photo of a gray, white, and lavender colored pigeon hunching slightly on a fire escape railing in light snow. He's looking back over his shoulder at me with a pointed look in his eye.

December 21, 2023

Let Evening Come

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I was doing a photo dump from my phone this evening and reread the poem I took this picture of, part of the painting “Zion” by Jeremiah Jossim at the Wassaic Project this past summer.

(It reminds me just slightly of the lyrics of the Bright Eyes song “I Must Belong Somewhere.”)

Happy longest evening, everyone.

Let the light of late afternoon
shine through the chinks in the barn, moving
up the bales as the sun moves down.

Let the cricket take up the chafing
as a woman takes up her needles
and her yarn. Let evening come.

Let dew collect on the hoe abandoned
in long grass. Let the stars appear
and the moon disclose her silver horn.

Let the fox go back to its sandy den.
Let the wind die down. Let the shed
go black inside. Let evening come.

To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop
in the oats, to air in the lung
let evening come.

Let it come, as it will, and don’t
be afraid. God does not leave us
comfortless, so let evening come.

-Jane Kenyon

March 22, 2023

Last days of winter in the anarchist jurisdiction

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February 21, 2023

Not yet

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[Photograph is a closeup of the branch of a shrub just beginning to bud. Tiny emerging leaves are pale green and bright pink.]

January 5, 2022

Drop

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[Image description: A single drop of water hangs from a twig of a bare, reddish brown tree branch, against a gray-blue sky.]

From a walk in the park a couple of days ago, a fitting image I thought for the start of a new year when many things still feel impending.

February 2, 2021

Sorry, friend, no snacks today!

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Image is of a fluffy grey-brown squirrel, cautiously edging towards me on the snow-covered handrail of a wooden bridge over a creek in Central Park.

December 30, 2020

Waterways

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I went out on a final hike of the year yesterday, since it was supposed to be cold but clear. The inlet of Spuyten Duyvil Creek was mostly a frozen mud flat, but whether due to natural currents or use by water birds, some little rivulets remained free-flowing.

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