Modena
Last week my wife and I visited her family in Italy, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic shut […]
Impressions and Reflections
Early in the past week, I got lucky on walks and found a lot of puddles of water, with ice […]
Let’s Hope
Let’s hope that 2022 is not 2020 3.0, as 2021 in retrospect felt a bit like 2020 2.0. This week’s […]
Last Post of the Year
The past year, like the one before it, has been weird. COVID-19, of course, Zombie-like. Crazy politics. Violent weather. Today, […]
Signs of Spring
A ground hog in a tree, eating the spring flowers on the branches, with a bunny on the ground stretching […]
Nature Preserved
This weekend I spent a couple of hours at the nature preserve on the campus where I work, Calvin University. […]
All About the Snow
This week I was planning to do more images of the library and archives where I work. I figured the […]
Between Semesters
The university where I work was between semesters–its three week January Interim and the winter/spring term–the second half of this […]
New Toy
This past week, my iPhone bit the dust. (The battery.) So I got a new one. I had no desire […]
Silence in Aman Park
In a frantic 2020 it was hard to find silence. The noise and stress of COVID19 and US politics was […]
Week 39 – Grab and Go
This week’s images were all made on the move. The cover image and a second one of a leaf are […]
Week 14 – Love and Landscapes
Being home all day, every day, reading about death, hearing about people you know with Covid-19, has a way of […]
Week 11 – Churchless Sundays
This week Covid-19 (AKA, coronavirus) became real in Michigan. Universities, schools, colleges, seminaries, sports leagues, churches, and more all went […]
Week 4 – Leaving Maui, Going Home
Our last full day in Maui, Monday, was a bit lazy. We did a humid but pretty hike in Kapalua, […]
Week 43 – Rephotographing Grand Rapids
Last weekend I was at the Western History Association meeting in Las Vegas. I went to a panel on rephotography […]
Week 42 – Flyover Country
I’m a Midwesterner, geographically, so I get a bit annoyed at times by East Coast and West Coast folk who […]
Week 30 – Leaving D.C.
After two productive weeks in D.C. at the Library of Congress, I’m heading back home. I’m tired of Senator Henry […]
Week 20 – Night Vision
Not my night vision, but my iPhone’s. Mine is good. What amazes me, when I remind myself about camera’s, even […]
Week 12 – Spring?
This week it was warm enough that it felt like we’d taken the turn towards spring. Also, the start of […]
Week 5 – Snowpocalypse (aka Polar Vortex)
Snowmaggedon and its pretty moments and aftermath. (Update: And now melting. It’s 40 degrees Farhenheit warmer today–Sunday the 3rd–than it […]
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