Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
I love purple season. When the purple flowers arrive, they haul summer in their wake. They whisper, "Come! Taste! See!" from their perches above tangy chives and sweet clover. Purple plants give us pause, their sweet scent draws us in, their precious petals offer poignant promise. No matter how busy your day is, you have [...]
I walked away from a storm yesterday, and rediscovered the light. Having suffered through the Commission of Presidential Debate's showing of Three Angry Men Tuesday night, following by a private screening of The Social Dilemma Wednesday night, I was feeling a little pessimistic about humanity. With Appleton's COVID-19 hospitalization rate spiking, I had planned to [...]
A young boy recently asked me how rainbows are made. I answered with all the scientific knowledge I once gleaned from the pivotal prism scene in Disney's Pollyanna, and explained that light reflects off water droplets in the air and that's why they always appear opposite the sun and generally after a rain. A mechanical [...]
Rainbows make me rude. Just a hint of those magical colors, and I stop mid-sentence to watch them grow. I once left a dinner table, grabbed my camera and ran across the street when I spotted a giant rainbow stretching from one end of the park to the other. I shot this rainbow on a [...]
I spent a couple of merry afternoons chasing rainbows in Argentina and Brazil, pinning them with a bulky camera lens and bringing them home. Left eye squinted shut, right eye trained on the spectacular view of Iguazu Falls, I watched the rainbows stretch out shyly, faded streaks over pounding water. Iguazu Falls means "Big Water" [...]