Ocean

Is there anyone aside from me who swells with great emotion when the balalaika plays its little tune as spring comes to Yuriatin? Doctor...

I noticed that practically all my posts today have been about the "materialistic impulse." It may have something to do with being ...

Would you run over to the Mayflower Hotel on Central Park West (or -- the former Mayflower Hotel) to pick up a bargain -- like maybe a bea...

Always interested in learning from those who celebrate *humble beauty,* I was drawn today to the review in the Times of The Wabi-Sabi Hou...

Would you give up your seat on an overbooked flight for $100? No. For $200? No. For $200, and a confirmed seat on a flight in three hou...

A message from Warsaw: [I]t's snowing often these days and today for the first time this season I heard the sound of somebody beating ...

Where would New York be without Central Park? I remember a long time ago crashing on a rented bike there and being rushed to Lennox Hospital...

Central Park: a Lake Mendota analogue?

I can do this! Sort of. 

Central Park: seals on a rock?  

In the afternoon I stopped by the Frick Museum. Now THAT was a real place of escape for me when I was fewer than half my current years. Bac...

Rembrandt? the face for sure; probably not the skeletal horse. 

Poland is currently in the midst of its biggest international film festival, celebrating notable achievements in cinematography (read about ...

I would never say that NY is a city of bright colors. (Neither is Warsaw – let’s be truthful here.) But during a holiday season all cities ...

in the realm of the fantastic 

gold and glitter over a sea of people 

Lord & Taylor has the moving characters – playful, so playful; I especially like this one girl because she is holding that airplane with...

up, up and away 

My closing shot is of the cursing chestnut guy who did NOT want me to shoot pictures. At least not after the first handful. Too many! He to...

a lightbulb over chestnuts