Ocean

Get up early, work. Go to class, look out, see beautiful sky, ignore it. Go to second class. Look out, go out, take photo, move paper, eat, ...

Late afternoon. After a full day. Charged, you might say. Drive south, toward Paoli. Not too far. Get out, walk. Then, just a little more so...

…That it is the end of October. … that this barn hasn’t toppled with the wind. …that Ed, who is the owner of the barn, hasn’t toppled it so ...

One reason to prefer France over, say, Wisconsin, is that the outdoor markets in France are a year-round thing. You could argue that weather...

Law School is intense. Whatever else it is and is not, it definitely is a highwire thing. But every now and then you can step down. And loos...

...to change the color of the sky. To go from piercing blue to something matte-like and gray. Skies that I associate more with the Baltic st...

I have this bright, but quiet photo for today: Greece, you think? No, it’s Madison: just by the Law School. It’s the only photo I shot today...

All month long, the buildings just outside my condo have been crumbling. Rubble and twisted steel. (I face away from it all or else I’d go m...

I don’t fish. I eat meat, I eat fish, I eat, eat, eat. But I don’t want to engage in the act of capture. This is quite common – a cowardly s...

I never post photos taken several days back. Unless there’s a reason to compare and contrast, I stick with whatever comes my way each day. A...

If you really are not lost, if it is geographically impossible for you to be lost, might you still experience the shudder of feeling lost? S...

...from losing my voice (that was Thursday). From reclaiming it in a heated debate over the virtues of Supreme Court justices (that was last...

Come out to the country. I’ll buy you a cappuccino and we’ll get some honeycrisps. Them’s enticing words. First, because my favorite place r...

Sometimes I am moved to contemplate the world in poetic terms. Within me. Phrases appear, suddenly, athen (thank God) disappear in a flash. ...

What’s the opposite of a view from Bascom Mall on campus toward the Capitol (I post this view quite often, because it’s pretty and it’s just...

By seven, I’m done. I put away lecture notes and look outside. Not light yet. When does the sun rise on a foggy, late October morning? Outsi...