Some college friends invited me to a get-together for watermelon and grillin’.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 15.3% of Puerto Rico residents under 65 have a disability, a rate higher than anywhere on the mainland. About a third of those people, it reports, have trouble with basic tasks like bathing and dressing. And Puerto Rico’s disabled population was especially vulnerable to the havoc wrought by Hurricane…
Here’s part of the abandoned first draft of my PNDP final project. I was going to look at economic inequality by comparing Manchester-by-the-Sea, the wealthiest town in the North Shore, to Lynn, the poorest. That didn’t work out, but I wound up with some nice landscapes. Click the thumbnails for a better view. More PNDP…
Here are some shots from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where we saw a great exhibit of Michael Nichols’ wildlife photography. Also, there was a rainbow!
I did not love biking through this, but it was pretty.
Some neighbors a little down the street from us have an enormous collection of inflatable lawn decorations. Every Sunday during football season, they inflate this Patriots player, but the rest of the week he just kind of. . .hangs around.
I’ve been taking one picture a day this summer. Here are some self portraits I took while trying to see how I could get interesting back lighting in my kitchen.