I get to Philadelphia once every year or so and one of the places I love to check out is Eastern State Penitentiary. It is now a popular place for photo workshops. Just don't go in the heat of summer. I once went here in August . BIG MISTAKE !!!
across the street on the corner is a great coffee shop .
I think if I was stuck in this shit hole for a couple of days as a kid , many of my mom's problems would of been solved , God bless her soul.
with work , the gym , house cleaning and all the other things that are piling up it has been a while. if things continue like this i'm going to have to find another girlfriend. this one is for you lenny. keep cool !
even with the water hip deep and struggling just to hold my ground I can't wait till autumn to do it all over again. it was nice to get out today. next week it's back to the Adirondacks and Keene Valley for the long hike to Rainbow Falls.
Sitting here , the last night before I'm back to work and back to the gym , listening to the birds singing in the backyard I can't help but realize that this is the first time in the last 2 and 1/2 weeks I just sat back and let everything pass and relaxed. It was one of the strangest and stressful vacations I've spent.
early on in the vacation I spent a day and night in our most eastern town , Lubec , ME. this is a nice little harbor town that was the highlight of my vacation. a warm and friendly town , where I was welcomed right from the start. I will remember the people and the place , their generosity and kindness , hoping that maybe someday I will return . if not,they will not be forgotten . God bless.
Vermont is a place I know well , having spent lots of time there since I was young.my favorite place in the whole state is Kelly Stand Road. here is a couple of photos I took this morning , if I'm up for it I'll head back tomorrow.
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having lived a colorful , interesting and at times even bizarre life , I have come to realize that not everyone appreciates my carefree , happy go lucky attitude. such being the Canadian government , which views it more as a blight on society.
heading out to attend a workshop in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia I arrived at the border crossing in Calais, Me. only to find out I was going to be turned away. I must admit I have had better moments, mostly due to the ridiculous way the whole situation was handled.
Lord knows over the years I have made more then my share of mistakes and have a few regrets along the way but I have lived my life on my own terms and have always been willing to pay the high price that comes with it. and continue to pay for the choices I've made.
thanks to the support and sense of humor of my family and friends it wasn’t long before I buried this and moved on.I would also like to thank the people of the workshop group for their support , kindness and understanding . their efforts will always be remembered and appreciated.
it’s been a wild , crazy and goofy ride so far , with this having been just another pothole along my wacky trail.
when I seen these clouds the other night I knew immediately I was going to combine them with another photo in the future. I literally have thousands of photos stored away , waiting to find a matching heart for their soul.
after tomorrow , it's vacation and I'm out on the road , hopefully I'll catch a few of the photos I envisioned for those stored away.
every once in a while Im lucky enought to find a love for one or two of them. for me , building these type's of photos is much like building relationships. sometimes slow , sometimes difficult and always time consuming but worth every moment's struggle.
then again , what love isn't?
getting pretty excited about spending a couple of weeks on the beaches, listening to the waves and sorting out my thoughts. for me it's a cleansing of the heart, mind and soul.I will come home prepared to face the summer's heat, able to think and ready myself for Martha Vineyards in October.
after a long brutal winter my spring vacation is quickly approaching. this year its a week of rock hopping along the coast of Maine and then a week driving the lighthouse route in Nova Scotia. God! I do love the ocean.
below is a couple of wave photos , one taken last May somewhere along the Outerbanks and the second at the Cape in October. or maybe it's the other way around , who knows , I can't remember anymore.
ps it has now been 7 weeks since I last had a cigarette. hard to believe.
today starts the second month that I have not smoked a cigarette . nor any other flammable temptation for that matter. heading into the city this weekend for dinner and a show I was going to treat myself to something extra special like scalping Knicks or Yankee tickets. ex-smokers and those that have tried time and time again without success know only to well how difficult it is.
so after thinking about it a little more I have decided to wait and see if I can make it to May 24 , the day I get back from Nova Scotia. If I haven't smoked by then I'm going to treat myself to a vacation next year that I would have normally used for Cape Cod , lake Placid or Maine and instead I will go travel crazy .
So for the next 54 days I'll will be dreaming about places like the Serengeti , Patagonia , Japan , Israel and Newark NJ.
Where would you jet set too?
Where we come from is as important as where we are heading
