Aireys inlet — Having to get up early to go to the gym is most mornings a major issue for me. But not when the morning greets me in this fashion. BTW, you really need to click on the pic to see the glory!
Aireys inlet — White! Also don’t miss the cavorting sulpher crested cockie silhouette in the lower centre and the yellow tailed black cockie above and to the right..
Chicago — “Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn,” reads the quote around ...
Victoria — These pigeons hang around the same intersection every morning, and every morning I walk through them fearful I will get shit on just a block from the office.
Los angeles — This place used to be all small shops and food stands. Some were OK. Some were great. In the past year, Grand Central has been adding what I call “hipster” tenants, the latest of which is EggSlut. Eg...
Puerto vallarta — When reading Howard’s paper on Contemporary American Indian Storytelling: An Outsider’s Perspective, he looks at the views of people, their conditions and their values. He wrote about the Lakota tribe...
Saint neots — I drove through Buckden today and saw this sign, which I thought was very clever. But how many can you name?!
Pisgah forest — One of the perks of working in the bike industry is that our offices can be mobile. We don’t take advantage of this enough, though. Often we end up sitting in some anonymous Starbucks with a vendor,...
Cambridge — Aren’t motorway services such soulless places? Everything’s more expensive than it should be and at this one even the big information screen seems to be broken. Oh dear. I’m turning into a grumpy old...
New york — I asked on Twitter for ideas. Responses included building manager, housekeeper, dog walker.
Aireys inlet — Spring is a great season in Australia for the native bottlebrush (callistemon) which is widely seen flowering in gardens and in the bush. Several dozen species grow in Australia sporting many colours...
Paris — Today, I took my 4th freestyle stroke lesson. As I walk back home, I try to imagine the factory workers, 120 years ago, after a hard day at work building radiators or likely offloading coal from the n...
Bridgton — Final fall hike before the snow takes it all back…
New york — Morning and I lie covered on the grey plush of the sofa one foot in one foot out for one hour seven minutes forty-six seconds watching The Missing in two hundred and forty pixel resolution at low volu...
New york — Sitting here on this clear autumn day in New York City, I wonder if it narcissistic that as I read about Typhoon Haiyan I am filled with gratitude and wonder at the life that I have been given?
Toronto — There was a beautiful building here a year ago. An architectural match for its neighbour on the north-east corner. An example of Muddy York’s yellow brick (love it or hate it). Then the developer’s s...
San francisco — What I really want is to be kissed, but instead San Francisco slings an arm around my shoulder because we are old friends, and it’s understood that nothing is ever going to happen. P. hands me one of...
London — I studied near here 30 years ago. Back then, students rarely had much money. We quickly got to know where the cheapest food was and where we could get the cheapest pint, the cheapest paper and pens....
Amsterdam — My dad is the typical guy that is loyal to certain restaurants… for years. In Amsterdam he and my mom always loved to go to Kantjil & Tijger. Every time there was a trip to Amsterdam, at least o...
Williamsburg — Tell me, reader—do you believe in omens?
Boston — One of the benefits of standard time in autumn, and there are many, is a beautiful sunrise as I walk to café at 6:45am.
Paris — At Coquelicot des Abbesses in Montemarte, they serve you literal bowls of black coffee with your half slice of baguette in the morning. (Jam and honey pots, complimentary.) Before I left the south, I...
Aireys inlet — I’ve had a request for black. Will charcoal do? I’ll keep trying. Actually, if I had noticed this one in time, I would have posted it for Halloween. Very scary.
Phoenicia — These are ski towns and it’s not yet ski season. I drive through two Main Streets and everything’s closed. I’m looking for a place to sit down and have lunch and take a conference call which is in twe...
Point reyes station — september 7, 2013, our last day of our plein air painting excursion, and we came across Whitehouse Pool along Highway 1 near Inverness. while Kevin and I were painting this landscape, we noticed some...
London — I suppose if you’ve gone and built a multi-million pound building without actually running it by the family that owns the Square, this is the least you can do to apologise. I like the juxtaposition w...
Singapore — It’s getting on for three years. Three years that passed in a flash, a haze, a whirl. Fortune tellers, Chinese physicians, numerologists. Bee hoon, fish head curries, and Popiah. I love this part of ...
Lalitpur — People are with their families, celebrating their new year and the return of light the new year brings after the darkness of the winter (I think. There are other deity-related stories around this fest...
London — Without a doubt I would suggest that Mark Knopfler is one of today’s great storytellers. The lyrics of his songs are just so well-crafted (as is the music of course!). I had the privilege of being ab...
Victoria — All I knew was that the meeting was in a small building on the campus of Royal Roads University. I figured I would arrive and the building would just be there, waiting for me. Not exactly. This photo...
Aireys inlet — This is Loch Ard Gorge near the famous “12 Apostles” at the other end of the Great Ocean Road from us. To judge the height of the cliffs and the breakers, note the people standing at the top of the ...
Sacramento — The oak trees in Sacramento should be a good reminder for us all that we are small, we are impatient, and we come and go so quickly as to be almost inconsequential. Such perspective seems to be lost o...
The pas — Sunday mornings are a time for me to piddle at a few things. Saturdays seem to be when I go crazy with schoolwork and house cleaning, and come Sunday, it is spending time with kids and family and pidd...
Shanghai — Nangpu Bridge, as seen on the merry-go-round ring road in Shanghai
Shanghai — Dancers in Fu Xing Park, Shanghai, dancing to a Chinese version of Auld Lang Syne. A late afternoon stroll in the park to clear my head after a busy day at work.
Saskatoon — Props pile up on the mat. Hamstrings ache in forward bends. Backs do not bend as they used to. Opening the body requires a trust easily assumed in warmer weather, carefully negotiated in winter. Boot...
Sevenoaks — Working from home can sound like a great idea, can’t it? Well, if you happen to live in a small house where the only place you can sit and work out of other people’s way is on the bed, then I can ass...
Amsterdam — The middle of nowhere is the centre of everything.
Kelsey (carrot valley) — This is the view off my deck this morning. Looks like we got snow and it is here to stay. I live in Northern Manitoba Canada and I do not look forward to the white stuff; even though it can be quite b...
Aireys inlet — I know that it is a glorious moment for these city kids when they hit the beach for a spring surfing break from school, but to us crusty old locals, it seems a bit like an invasion from outer space. ...
Vancouver — Every week I like to draw a couple of abstract illustrations with no initial idea or concept. I just try to focus on simple shapes and lines, and let their forms guide the direction of the illustratio...
Aireys inlet — And so it is. 28 degrees celsius at midday.
Aireys inlet — Occasionally, on a cloudy morning, an hour or so after a full colour sunrise, the show is repeated in B&W & grey tones.
Aireys inlet — Crimson Rosella and our prize winning Irises. One red with blue touches; the other blue with red touches. Well, to be honest, they didn’t actually win any prizes, but they might have . . .
Aireys inlet — I can choose to face the Inlet, the Lighthouse, the Sea or the Great Ocean Road. The last of these seemed the least distracting.
Aireys inlet — I know, deep blue. But I have just reviewed several hundred pics that I’ve taken of the sea from my front door, and this was one of the very few, completely and unequivocally, blue. Whatever color, ...
Mountain view — I hate change. Not so much for the change itself but more for the uncertainty that all changes carry with it Not to say I haven’t been dreaming this day. Quite the opposite. I’ve been dreaming of be...
Astoria — I run by this view a few times a week. On the long runs, 7, 8, or 9 miles, I let the energy of this wild city fuel me. Fill my core with bright, determined energy. That same energy can isolate you an...
New york — Discussing Amazon, Apple, and entrepreneurship.
Toronto — The street is littered with the remains of Victorian homes. Half a block further down, one home achieved not only heritage designation but the more impressive safeguard against progress: a historical ...
North little rock — Bailey was like the Forest Gump of dogs. He was sweet and simple, and never quite right in the head. That’s stems from the abuse he suffered when he was young, before he came to us. Bailey had been d...
London — Don’t you think?
Paris — There is a soundtrack to this piece. Listen here while reading! This laughably absurd situation that is night trains. On the way to Paris yesterday evening, every car is full of growly old beards and...
Taylors — I learned how to make my coffee from my husband. He came into my life armed with a beaten-up percolator and a tin of Cuban coffee grinds. We made our coffee like we made our love— sticky sweet, soft,...
Singapore — It was not too long ago that someone mentioned the coincidence of how the rainy weather always seems to follow my negative moods closely. So I begin to take closer notice of that occurrence and each t...
Amsterdam — I guess it was one of those “a light at the end of the tunnel” moments. I had been having a roller-coaster time while deciding if I should continue with my original business idea or scrap it, and was ...
Gentofte — Early morning. The rink is empty. There is no one not even stuff. Cold and silence. All what you can hear is the sound of ice crunching under blades. It brings calmness into your head. And sweet pain ...
Zhongshan district — On the weekend, here will have many booths to display all kind of organic agriculture foods and hand-made art-crafts from all the counties. Sometimes, may have outdoor concert, opera or flea market as...
London — [Some thoughts prompted by fallen leaves] In a desperate bid for immortality, a leaf does a chemical deal with the pavement. “I was here. Don’t forget me” he says. But how foolish! How can we forg...
The pas — Love the first snow! Always so beautiful with the big fluffy flakes! Of course I could do without the -35 that I am sure is soon to follow
Aireys inlet — Red, of course, on one side of Point Roadknight and purple on the other. What could be simpler? You need to click on the pic to see the colours properly.
Saint elizabeth parish — Just above the city of Maggoty, in the parish of Saint Elizabeth, on the island of Jamaica, sits a hill. Placed together (never at the same time) are a number of homes crawling up the hillside. At the...
New york — Being the father of this wonderful little guy makes me try to see things always from his perspective and I really enjoy it. It is back to the basics, but also (re)discovering the magic just around the...
Toronto — “Please don’t look behind me. Nothing to see there, people.” Why don’t people talk about the rocks in their life? I’ve got rocks, you’ve got rocks, the pretty girl standing next to you on the crowded...
San francisco — Molly was a fallaway Catholic. She’d grown up in the system but the only thing that she seemed to have truly internalized was a mastery of guilt and its effect as a weapon. She was charming and warm...
New york — When you hear Alaska, chances are the first things you think of include snow, snow dogs, and more snow. Now, add ginormous, monster vegetables to that list. The Alaskan State Fair is a regular showca...
Saskatoon — How to prepare for winter in Saskatchewan: Bake a pear-cardamom crisp for the annual potluck to say goodbye to your acting teacher before he heads off to Barcelona for the winter. Find the cat-eared ...
Victoria — Thank you to all who made suggestions on where to go. It was a great help. I can’t wait.
Victoria — It was a hungover Sunday spent haggling for a new phone, listening to Boards of Canada, sketching out plans to build a shelf, and watching New Girl and Boardwalk Empire. It wasn’t pretty, but I got i...
New york — I have been telling myself and others lately that I am not a creative person. That I have strengths, and that thinking up original ideas is not one of them. That being said, here is the dictionary’s ...
London — Here’s another one of those easily-missed features beneath our feet, and a sad necessity in our modern age: the boundary marker. After all, you need to know where your responsibilities end and someon...
New york — Helvetica may still be the iPhone font, but web font technology is taking branding to a new whole new level in the online media, and much about the conference talks centered around this fact. A lot o...
New york — Today NYC stopped doing what it normally does. (Sunday 10 am.) We were waiting to cheer our friends running the NYC Marathon. 5 bouroughs: 42.195 km or 26.219 mi and over 45K runners. To me this was ...
San francisco — Up, up, up the mosaic stairway. A quick escape to the park on top of the hill just because. A mini adventure (and a chance to work on my morning, er, afternoon pages). I find a spot on a bench halfw...
New york — New York is a city of hierarchies. It’s not enough to have a comfortable home that shelters you from the elements, that’s safe and that can hold all your stuff. New Yorkers also give considerable thou...
New york — How do I start thinking about only myself again without being influenced by all this world around me? I find it so hard to listen to myself. The only thing I know for sure is that only when I’m within...
Wellington — “I love summer.” she said. “They take out the bean bags and put them on the grass where you can lie down and hang out. We should do that sometime.” We were having lunch on what seemed to be a rare ...
New york — A deceptively simple photograph. Not merely two grinning girls in packing material in a box (as if that isn’t enough). It captures the infinite joy of the proverbial “diving in” and the limitless unkn...
New york — As the lights dim in the auditorium, small red LED bulbs taped to batteries on cord stems glow softly from hundreds of seats filled with alumni, faculty, and old friends gathered this morning to celeb...
Manchester — and then at the window opposite thinking, That’s a leg, a long naked crooked leg, what a curious angle to see such a lengthy leg from. I wasn’t really thinking how it might be attached to a person, un...
Winnipeg — The Three Thousand We start and walk three thousand strong We walk from a town in the north of France Where the only sounds are rain drops running down on our jackets and shoes hitting the pavement l...
Alameda — I’m doing NaNoWriMo again this year. For those of you unfamiliar with the weird acronym, that’s short for National Novel Writing Month, where a bunch of insane people all across the world write a 50,0...
Port townsend — Caught out in the rain on a spontaneous morning walk. On waking I couldn’t resist the dark clouds and chanting trees. The lighting is blue and electric gold - the color of water and autumn. Green leav...
Garze — On the flat-screen in the corner Chinese WWII dramas play out, while in the next room the sounds of electronica + Tibetan warbling belted out from a cheap smartphone battles with seven raucous guests ...
Aireys inlet — Gold! At least yesterday morning it was. Shortly after sunrise, the sun spotlighted the gold sea to white. Not sure why. Clouds overhead darkened the foreshore trees to black. No photoshop. In fa...
New york — I grew up in a small town in post-communist Eastern Europe, where, as a local song puts it, “there is not much to do besides falling in love”. The next best thing was to hear your friends tell you: “L...
Boston — Not a bad day for, say, celebrating your baseball team’s World Series victory. Or going for a long relaxing walk. Or both.
Céret — UN: A small hen for lunch and a third cup of coffee by noon. My fourth day in Cèret, a town famous for artists. Picasso lived here just one summer, Modigliani and Braque for a few. The Museum of Moder...
Fredericksburg — When we move in we’ll hang a bench on the patio and when it rains I’ll complain about not being able to see the stars, and one Sunday when I’m back from my parents’ I’ll find you on a ladder with sky ...
Amsterdam — Some of the most fascinating people I’ve ever met are nameless to me, and I to them. It’s an interesting phenomenon. Unnamed strangers, not to be seen again share a little bit of their story. Somet...
Patterson — This view is about two-miles from my childhood home. If you turn the camera slightly to the right you see the much less scenic valley in which much of my childhood took place. The valley contains Bre...
New york — Five. (Hola) James F. wants to hide out in Mexico. For his art. But neither of us speaks Spanish. “Plus the ice cream truck won’t make the trip,” I say. James F. tells me not to worry, he knows a guy ...
San francisco — The night the old firehouse burned down, the trucks sat outside, placid with their water tanks. The next morning, as per protocol, an inspector from another station ambled into town to survey the dama...
Accra metropolis — You see the problem with writing in first person is that you can’t be God. You can’t see all the characters and decide their fate. You have only one character’s fate to decide and one character around...
Accra metropolis — That’s my yellow gallon right here. Hi, has an accurate record of where and what time I took this photo. I live in Accra. And because of the many water issues we have ,even in the capital metropolis...
Nieuwegein — the photo is taken in Nieuwegein but I am not there now :)
Gentofte — You know the feeling. Phone rang and at the very first glans at it the ground you’re standing on is crumbling. Automatically you picking the phone and after first second it hits you again. Your hands ...
Greenville — This year, I decided that I’d finally had enough of sitting at home on Halloween. It felt odd to make that a conscious decision. I definitely didn’t make a conscious effort to sit on my ass, eat can...
Aireys inlet — When I was a kid in Oklahoma, seventy years ago, storytelling happened mainly at bedtime. And it wasn’t much associated with the idea of truth. The stories we heard were of the fairy tale and fable...
Washington — Our dog peed on a bag in the dining room and as punishment, he had to wear the shark costume for trick-or-treaters. Lucky them!