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This is a block of wood from which an artist, Agnes Weinrich, made white-line prints. She made it about 1916 during a summer stay at the ar...

This is the Amstel canal from Grand Café Amstelhoeck. We'd been caught in a spate of rain. You can see the outdoor tables are wet. Th...

This shows a lobster boat moving down Blue Hill Bay as the sun is about to rise over the southern end of Western Mountain. At least I thin...

I didn't think too much of this photo when I took it. The subject seemed busy and incoherent; the landscape is not picturesque. You can...

The college I attended turned 150 this year and the my class celebrated its survival all of 50 years from the date we graduated. This photo...

Though not much different from other tricoleurs, the Dutch flag is a handsome one and, since I like to find occasions to fly it, I've b...

My sister lives in a mobile home perched midway on a palisade a half mile above the Pacific near Santa Monica. I took this photo on a visit...

This shows the field of a small farm at Herrick Bay in the Penobscot region of Maine. I was first brought to this area in 1949 and have ret...

In the summer of 1932 my grandmother sent my father and his older brother on a visit to Germany. My father was then 21 years old. This is a...

This morning I looked at an online folder full of images and asked myself which would intrigue me, supposing I were coming upon them for th...

As we near the summer solstice, rays of early-morning sun slant through a north-facing window and cast this reflection on the west wall of ...

There's construction going on where I do my daily shopping. The food store that serves most of my needs is on the top floor of a buildi...

This is the milling machine that removed the top surface of our street. When it's operating a carbide-toothed drum scrapes up old aspha...

In our little neighborhood messages from our village manager arrived in email inboxes over the weekend. They warned us that in coming days t...

This is a painting by Karl Knaths. He was one of America's first modernist painters. Out of an early affection for the work of Cézanne, ...

On June 14th the United States celebrates Flag Day. During the battle of Iwo Jima in February 1945, the USS Blessman was severely damaged i...

Last summer I noticed a bee nosing around some hosta blossoms, sought out my camera, and, amazingly, was able to catch this shot.

There's a story about this tiny blossom and its out-of-focus cousin behind. While eating lunch on our side porch I noticed a little gir...

My blogging impulse having fled some months ago, I'm ready to try something new; well, not exactly new, but borrowed from my friend Den...

This photo shows a crewmember of a freight train looking out the left side window of a caboose's cupola. It was taken in March 1943 by...