Big Easy Wallflower

Taiwan 2008: Wasp's Nest Gods

Magnolia Plantation bridge

JAMES!!!

angel blue eyes

Perched atop a balcony in San Francisco's Mission District, she watches over us.

Amy's 'Celebrity' 3-speed

For years, I was sure I was the only adult who did not know how to ride a bicycle. It's not for lack of trying, but just never got the hang of it each time I made an attempt. Finally, I followed up on a news clip about a guy in New York who specializes in teaching adults to ride. The teacher's name is Terry Chin -- I took it as a sign that he and I shared a surname. After a series of three weekend lessons in Riverside Park with Terry and a hardy group of other slightly embarrassed adult learners, I was zipping along. Finally, I can ride the $40 refurbished bike I bought at a flea market years ago in hopes of someday learning to ride.

Save the Robots

Nighttime explorations at the edge of Brooklyn's industrial waterfront.

full glass

mauer park sunday, prenzlauer berg, berlin

Built over the 'dead zone' between the east and west sides of the Berlin Wall, this grassy strip hosts a motley band of sellers and buyers at the weekly daylong Sunday flea market. It's a lively scene in a formerly dead and deadly place.

Winter

Cold Springs in a warm winter rain

Apostles

These resilient remnants of limestone cliffs stand stubbornly on the shore even as all around them have fallen to the sea. Echoing all that has washed away in waves. Indelible footprints refusing to be erased by the fast shifting sands.

(Port Campbell National Park, Great Ocean Road, AUSTRALIA)

Venus Baths

(Grampians National Park, AUSTRALIA)

Chinese Girl Band

Beijing's Panjiayuan antiques flea market is a massive time frozen cacophony of old artifacts in rows, in piles, in stacks, in a silent march to the present.

temple tops

Tokyo's Yanaka district -- home to the city's highest concentration of temples, many moved here from other locations. Around every bend and nestled between low rise homes and shops there is a sacred structure.

Bermuda Tones

Chinatown's Last Eunuch at Music Palace

In 2005, I toured the interior of the now closed Music Palace Theater on Bowery in New York's Chinatown. Shuttered for many years now, the interior still contained the furnishings of a movie house. Even the manager's office was untouched as if the staff left work one day fully expecting to return to their labors the next day, but never returning. The take-out container filled to the brim with rubber bands waiting to be stretched into service; the tape dispenser patiently cradling the sticky roll cellophane tape ready for duty; the stapler prepared to connect the disconnected --- all standing at attention and frozen in the stagnant pause of history. The opposite of a eunuch really --- ready and equipped for action, but not discharged.

Tree Flame

Mermaids in the Garden

Hidden New York

Tree Lichen