By Vladimir Brezina
The sun rises above the horizon, and immediately its warming rays disperse the morning chill. It’s going to be another hot one!
A response to this week’s Photo Challenge, Warmth.
By Vladimir Brezina
The sun rises above the horizon, and immediately its warming rays disperse the morning chill. It’s going to be another hot one!
A response to this week’s Photo Challenge, Warmth.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Photography, postaweek2014, Sunrise, Warmth, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Johna Till Johnson
“Ya gotta have ideas,” the cab driver said, followed by an uproarious belly-laugh. “Money’s not worth nothing unless you have ideas.”
I laughed along with him. It was impossible not to: the man had the most contagious laughter I’d ever heard. And he had ideas. Boy, did he have ideas.
He wasn’t what I expected when I got into the cab on that overcast, dreary December day a few days before Christmas. All I could see of him was a dark face, beard streaked with a bit of gray. He was eating a late lunch when I got in, and didn’t return my greeting.
So I figured I wasn’t going to hear much from him—and that was fine. I had errands to get done, and worries on my mind. After I told him the destination, I figured that was the last exchange we’d have. Wrong!
Posted in Culture, History, Life, Travel
Tagged Cab conversations, Cab driver, Fish recipes, Haiti, New York City
By Vladimir Brezina
I mean, of course, the ancient turn of the year, the Winter Solstice—not that newfangled, artificial New Year on January 1st.
The Winter Solstice occurs today, December 21st, at 6:03 PM EST (New York time). This year, especially, we look forward to the days finally getting longer…
… and we are still waiting for our first real snowstorm, which at least for a day or two makes everything brighter :-)
Happy Winter Solstice from us in NYC!
Posted in Nature, New York City
Tagged Central Park, Central Park Reservoir, New York City, Seasons, Winter, Winter Solstice
By Vladimir Brezina
Golden light in New York Harbor…



From the Hidden Harbor Tour, September 2013.
A contribution to Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge, Golden.
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged Golden, Hidden Harbor Tour, New York City, New York Harbor, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Ships, Sunset, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
A yellow kayak, for a change…
A response to this week’s Photo Challenge, Yellow.
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Belize, Kayak, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Sea Kayaking, Weekly Photo Challenge, Yellow
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Twinkle.
And, at this time of the year, there’s no other possible response than this—
More twinkling photos from Christmas 2011 and Christmas 2012 are here and here.
And, so as not to get bored with twinkling lights year after year, this for a change was Christmas 2013—
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We are working on Christmas 2014. Stay tuned!
Posted in Life, Photography
Tagged Christmas Decorations, Christmas Tree, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Twinkle, Weekly Photo Challenge
A few days ago we posted “Thanksgiving Musings: We’re Grateful for that Still, Small Voice…,” in which we referred to a wonderful essay by writer and adventurer Willis Eschenbach. He generously gave us permission to reprint the essay in full on our blog. Here it is. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach
With Thanksgiving coming up, I thought I’d write about something other than science. A few weekends ago, I went by kayak across Tomales Bay from Marshall to Lairds Landing, where I lived for nine months or so when I was about twenty-five with a wonderful friend and his lady and their son. It had been fifteen years since I was last there, I’d gone for the wake not long after my friend died. I went on this trip with a long-time shipmate of mine, a gifted artist, builder, and blacksmith.
Now, there are lots of words for the gradations of friendship—friends, acquaintances, work-mates, BFFs, room-mates, colleagues, and the like. “Shipmate” means more than any of those to me. It means someone who I’ve been through some storms with at sea.
By Vladimir Brezina
Gone…
… but not forgotten.
But memories are not enough—the new Tower has risen!
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Gone, But Not Forgotten.