Happy New Rockin' Year

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Mark Twain

Merry Christmas

Christmas can't be brought from a store ... maybe it means a little bit more.

Dr. Seuss

Sounds of Silence

The music is not in the notes , but in the silence between,

Mozart 

The Cities

A city is not measured by it's length and width , but by it's broadness of it's vision and height of it's dreams.

Herb Caen

Within one's Hands

I always felt if you want to know the heart and soul of a person , watch their hands. with them , a blind person can accomplish the unimaginable.

Walls

Nothing kills creativity faster then a wall.

Eric Weiner

Gates

I believe the future is only the past again , entered though another gate.

Arthur Wing Pinero

Shadow Image

City Showers

Between Seasons

The leaves fall , the wind blows , and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into the winter wool. 

Henry Beston

Along the Line

Everything changes and , some where along the line , I'm changing with it. 

Eric Burdon

Out on a Drive

Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.

Angela N. Blount


Every once in a while I get in a car and before I realize it I have put 400 miles in. 

Along This Ocean Wall

The Fall of Autumn

We are quickly reaching the time of autumn I like the best , when the last of the leaves are stubbornly hanging on against all odds. 

Another Day Another Challenge

Sometimes , instead of climbing over the barricades , you've got to walk around them. 

Bono


7 day challenge  black and white photos with no people and no explanation. 

Goin' South

Season of Color

FS 71 - 2

FS 71

Branch Pond

Myths are public dreams , dreams are private myths.

Joseph Campbell

Kelly Stand Rd.

I felt like I been looking for this place my whole life.

-their eyes were watching God.



In all of Vermont I find no other place that allows me the creative freedom and peace of mind as Kelly Stand Road. When Irene stormed New York and Vermont it wiped out KSR and it was closed for a few years. so I left here at 4am to take a drive up and check to see what they had done with the repairs.

I was a little disappointed that the camp sites for the first couple of miles were gone with large boulders placed along the road to keep cars from parking in the woods. also that they let the road up to Branch pond become over grown leaving it much narrower then it used to be.

But that is the small stuff , some how there seems to be more room to park and explore then there was before ,except at Beebe Pond were they was never more then enough room to park one , maybe two cars.

And of course the great bonus are the side roads off of Kelly Stand road such as FS 71 that runs all the ways back to rte 9.  Which may be more beautiful then the main road.  That will be the next trip.

So with camera in hand it was time to play .


Tree pan from Roaring Brook

 Branch Pond

A Season for Vermont

Vermont is a small state that makes an enormous difference.

Fred Rogers

Follow the Light

What good is the lighthouse if you never leave the shore? 

Reflections

The older you get, the more your realize the way you look is a reflection of how you treat yourself. 

Hope Davis. 

Sunset In The City

One belongs to New York instantly , one belongs to it in much as five minutes as in five years.

Tom Wolfe

Beach Walk

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude. 

Jeanne Moreau

Rensselaer County Supreme Court

I'm for truth , no matter who tells it. I'm for justice , no matter who it is for or against. 

Malcolm X