The Pier at St. Augustine Beach

During my Florida vacation, I took some time to visit the beaches of the Palm Coast area.  Yes, the temperature was hovering at 100 degrees.  Yes, it was a brilliant, sunny day every time I went out to shoot. And of course, the minute you walk onto a beach while carrying any sort of camera,…

Read More

203 stairsteps to the top…

I think that lighthouses are fascinating.  And maybe it’s because I had such a wonderful experience in visiting the lighthouse in Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia six years ago. So when I discovered there was a lighthouse in the general area of my Florida vacation, I made arrangements to visit it.  Yes, I wanted to photograph…

Read More

Orest Hrynwak: An elegy for Captain Cash

Please let me tell you a story today.  A story about a man named Orest. I first met Orest ten years ago.  At the time, I was freelancing for a minor league sports website which paid its writers on promises and not much else.  At the time, Orest was the general manager of the Rochester…

Read More

Best of our TU Community Blogs, June 2, 2016: Ten for Thursday

Wow.  I overslept. That doesn’t happen that often. But this Florida vacation has done a lot for me.  I’ve had a great opportunity to re-center myself, to rediscover my balance and my directions.  That, and I’ve walked around so much in the hot sun, my body looks like I’ve used beet juice for a moisturizer.…

Read More

Collarworld: The Escorts of Calmness

It was a brilliant, cloudless, sunny day at the Meeting Place in Collarworld, the afterlife waystation for pets to wait for their reunion with their masters.  And as new arrivals crossed over the Rainbow Bridge to enter Collarworld, many of the resident pets waited to act as escorts, who would bring the new pets to…

Read More

Adventures at the Waffle House

So I’m on vacation for a few days, and I’m really having a great time in Florida.  It’s actually my first time visiting the Sunshine State, and I decided that the best way to reach Florida was to drive there. Yes.  You heard me.  I drove to Florida. From New York. Down I-95. All the…

Read More