I’m honored that one of my photos has been chosen for “The Photograph” show at Bob Korn’s gallery, The Gallery UPSTAIRS @ Bob Korn Imaging in Orleans.
Bob is a world-renowned printer for many respected and successful photographers, not the least of whom is Joel Meyerowitz, whose iconic Cape Light: Color Photographs is still cherished decades after publication. Continue reading
Yesterday at Falmouth DQ – don’t worry, the line is long even now!
Twenty-four degrees and with a biting wind, but DQ opened yesterday! Forget songbirds and daffodils, this is the real sign of Spring.
Ground’s not frozen. Rhodies are being moved up the hill from the house being sold because the buyers didn’t want them. Bill Bourne, West Falmouth’s own “mountain man”, is behind the wheel.
I’ve read some great books lately. Have you? Please share! Here are my own idiosyncratic recommendations:
The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen – This won the Pulitzer for fiction, and although it’s sometimes hard to follow who’s doing what where, I found the milieu (post fall of Saigon) fascinating, and the uncertainty about levels of deception suspenseful. The writing was superlative. Not an easy read, but a rewarding one.
The House By the Lake, by Thomas Harding – A true account of a cottage on a lake about an hour from Berlin, from the 1920’s when the author’s great-grandparents built it, through 2014, when it was restored and placed on the Register of Historic Places. A microcosm of the history of Berlin during these years, the book brought to life all the changes during these decades in a very personal and compelling way, including the bike and running path in front of the house that used to be where the Berlin Wall was.
The Mothers, by Britt Bennett – This is for when you just want to speed read and not think too much. I thought this book was like a more current Jodi Picoult novel – lots of emotion, but with black characters and “the mothers”, the churchwomen who were like a Greek chorus to the events. A fun read! Continue reading