Happy Holidays

    South Orange, NJ, Dec 2013

Have yourself a merry little Christmas, let your heart be light
Next year all our troubles will be out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the yule-tide gay
Next year all our troubles will be miles away

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

     South Orange, NJ, Dec 2013

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas

With every Christmas card I write

May your days be merry and bright

And all your Christmases be white

                                  - Irving Berlin ( 1942)

Autumn Evening

                                                 South Orange, NJ, Nov 2013

But O, my sleepy soul, it will not roam,
It is too happy and too warm at home:
With just the shadows leaping up the wall,
The sparrows twittering; and that is all. 

Frances Darwin Cornford

Summer's last hurrah

Myrtle Beach, SC


Listen! You hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back and fling
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin, - Matthew Arnold (Dover Beach)

The greatest show on earth

    Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Sep 2013

Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
                                    - William Wordsworth

Purple Mountain Majesties...

Big Sur, California, Aug 2013

...From sea to shining sea    - K.L. Bates

Foggy at the Bay

San Francisco Bay, Aug 2013

And when it grew so black

That I could know no place,

I lost all judgment then,

Of distance and of space....W H Davies

They drift on still water; Mysterious, beautiful!

....they drift on the still water
Mysterious, beautiful;
Among what rushes will they build,
By what lake’s edge or pool
Delight men’s eyes....                    - W. B Yeats ( Wild Swans at Coole)

A Bokeh (bouquet) for Spring

Branch Brook Park, Newark, NJ
04-13-2013

So long Winter!

Mar 22, 2013
South Orange, NJ

Snowflakes on gaslights

Mar 8, 2013; South Orange, NJ

Frosting on the cake?

Tree and house, and hill and lake,
Are frosted like a wedding-cake...R.L.Stevenson

Winter Wonderland

Mar 8, 2013
South Orange, NJ

Looking down

Did He smile His work to see?...William Blake
Maplewood , NJ
02-28-2013

Do you see what I see?

Roses on Valentines Day
South Orange, NJ
02-14-2013

Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!

South Orange, NJ
2013

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice...

27 Jan 2013, NJ

Fire & Ice .....Robert Frost

For oft when on my couch I lie, in vacant or in pensive mood...

24 Jan 2013, NJ
My Pensive Pal

Mystical silhouettes

16 Jan, 2013
South Orange, NJ

Dew drops or diamonds?

Jan 16, 2013
South Orange, NJ
Inspiration:Robert Graves

Our flag is still there

July 04, 2011
Fort Niagara, Buffalo, NY
[Houses an original 15 star 15 stripe flag from the period 1795-1815,  like the one that flew over Fort McHenry in 1812 that inspired the US National Anthem]