rainy day at wave hill

a rainy afternoon at Wave Hill, as the season starts to turn from summer to fall…  

a love affair at the fair

At the Washington County Fair, I am always drawn to the young people and their diary cows. I love watching the kids getting ready to show their cows.  The dairy barns are my favorite to visit.  There is a meditative …

At the Fair

The Washington County Fair closed last Sunday…  I spent several hours at the fair over two days, making photographs with the young people at the fair.

Here are a couple of young people I met on the last afternoon of the fair and a couple of the attractions at the fairway.

 

as they leave…

Peonies from the Bronx Botanical Garden leaving beauty… leaving traces…

And this is why…

 

Claudia Perez and her daughter.

Claudia is Tenant Association President

@ George Washington Carver Houses in East Harlem

 

Last Saturday, I joined Dr. Lenora Fulani, the Committee for Independent Community Action and John Adams Houses Tenant President Ronald Topping at a march in the Bronx against the privatization of NYCHA (New York City Housing Authority).  NYC has the largest public housing program left in the country, home to over 500,000 New Yorkers.  The projects are in terrible condition, deteriorating because of the lack of funding and the political will to do something about it. Now NYC’s Mayor is overseeing a multi year plan that slowly sells off NYCHA’s apartments and assets (playgrounds and vacant land). Two weeks ago the federal government took control away from the City government to address the dangerous conditions (mold, lead paint, failed heating systems). Privatization continues to move forward.

Proud to march with Claudia and her daughter.

 

 

morning meditation

A richness of greens

Springtime settles, deepening

Promises to come

 

 

Woods’ Altars

…walking in the shushan woods…encountering altars…

…in the woods and on the walls…timeless travels

 

 

 

 

 

 

haiku

snow scatters sparkles                                                                                                                    coyotes cry in the night                                                                                                                        the dog lies alert

Provincetown clothesline

as the season slowly turns…

on a drive with Dad…

Abandoned in pink

Bennington, VT on a quiet weekday morning…

abandoned in pink

behind main street

beckoning none the less