Continue Reading Tiere und Türme In tune with my surrealist forbears, I worked on a series of photomontages this fall: Turmwächter – Guardians of the Towers. The…
Continue Reading Bird Bazaar We were iced in for a bit last week, although thankfully not for long or as intensely as much of the rest…
Continue Reading S,M,L,XL Xmas As per usual, a far-fetched analogy ruled my brain: the various sizing of Christmas decorations reminded me of the variability in the…
Continue Reading Die Qual der Wahl How to translate this German idiom into English? Tough Call! Decisions, decisions! Spoilt for Choice! I guess they all apply when it…
Continue Reading Slow Blogging Yesterday was the first night of Hanukkah. The photo below appeared all last week in various Jewish publications, a timely reminder of…
Continue Reading City Views “A view that will never be mine,” I groused, when reading a review in Art in America of Michael Heizer’s City. Then…
Continue Reading Dirty Laundry When I came again across Helga Stentzel’s whimsical laundry lines this week I thought of one of the very first blogs I…
Continue Reading Of Bees, Drones and Clams. Walk with me. This time there’ll be the bonus of learning some choice German curse words, if you listen closely enough. Muttered…
Continue Reading What are the Chances? “What are the chances…” was the beginning of a sentence that cropped up with astonishing frequency this week. “What are the chances,…
Continue Reading Water is the Shovel of the Shore Need a break from the tumult of this month, this year, from politics, war, pandemics? Never mind the nail biting over the…