Goings on in my garden

Doldrums

Despair needs a new pair of shoes

And a warm bed.
A meal that wasn't discarded by someone else.
A hug versus a mere handout.
Acknowledgement.

Don't just give change. Make change

Take the damn picture, Dad!

When a photographer talks about the difficult subjects they've had to shoot in their career, if they fail to mention their own children (assuming they have some), they are lying chicken-shit cowards.

Another day, another brain cell discarded (not that it was being used all that much)

Took a break from weeding the garden. This is the result.

There's a lot to be said for changing your point of view.

Another day, another Al Jolson Wannabe

Another day, another gallon of glitter

Another day, another hindsight

Facing conflict

Veterans to be and Veterans from days past.

On a day of celebration, their eyes tell a very different story.

Finally, a sad fact on top of it all:

One in four homeless people in America are veterans.

Kitty, Kitty, my ass!

His majesty, the Meerkat; First and chosen son of the first and chosen son. Most Noble and Honourable Ruler of the Lower Burrows of Upper Botswana. Slayer of Dung Beetles...

Supreme Dominator of Scorpions. Sublime Subjugator of Yellow Mongoose. Sun Angel and Sacred Protector of Zimbabwe.

Piccadily Rabbit's Foot

Bedford, NY is home to some stunning horse farms and even more stunning horses. This beauty is worth several million dollars according to one of the stablehands. (Insert picture of me with my jaw hanging to the floor. Couldn't get him to tell me who she (the horse) belongs to but he did say she (the owner) was a billionaire

Some flowers emerging from the shadows

Moments in my backyard

Profiles

Charlie
 and Joeli

Union Square Park.
Taking it all in.
And taking nothing in.

Hoping the squirrels have the answer

Listening to the clouds

Checkin' it out, yo.

Another shot from the Boulevard.

My 98 year old "Bubbe" goofing with us

Took the kids to California and spent time with my grandmother, their great-grandmother.

I probably took 500 pics of her and after a while she and my kids got tired of the constant shutter clicks. They got her going, making all sorts of faces at me, ending with the shot on the right (she had no idea what it meant until the kids explained it to her)

Then she said "I would never do that to your father."

To which they responded "why not. People do it to him in NY all the time."

Weighing the options on the Boulevard

Every city seems to have a Martin Luther King Boulevard (and for good reason). But why is it that they uniformly seem so neglected and disrespected?

Mack

Langur peek-a-boo

Purchased by the Bronx Zoo

Steven

This is my brother-in-law Steven. He's a porsche driving, cigar loving, poker playing chef, as well as a fan of Quentin Tarantino and Bruce Willis.
His meals and cigars are legendary.

Sometimes looks are not at all deceiving.

Another day, another latex glove

Another day, another older sister teaching her younger sister too much too fast

Another day, another layer of the ozone gone

Another day, another pound of glitter

Another day, another handshake

Another day, another "spit-take"

The 2010 Coney Island Mermaid Parade took place yesterday. It is Brooklyn's largest "we miss Halloween, it's summertime, we have a beach, a boardwalk and lots of hipster folks so let's play dress-up and have a big" party.

This man's father was one of the inal clowns at Coney Island way back when.

Stanley

Stanley likes mermaids (but only once a year) and a nice piece of fish (at least twice a week)

He said he always wanted to be in show business but the Coney Island Boardwalk is as far as he got.

Taken at the 2010 Mermaid Parade at Coney Island, brooklyn, NY