This past week I experienced spectacular nature on display in many forms when I visited Niagara Falls. The above photos were just one stop along the way at the Niagara Falls Butterfly Conservatory. I had never been to a butterfly conservatory, so I arrived astounded and walked around several times before I could get my…
There is nothing like packing up and heading into the woods. The above montage displays some of our most quintessential moments over the 2011 camping year. The feeling I long to express that correlates with the great escape to the outdoors cannot be better phrased than in the words of Henry David Thoreau: I went…
Pueblo A Pueblo (PAP) is a celebration of Mexican heritage that occurs April 27 – June 16th throughout Philadelphia. At this particular event Pueblo De Pueblo joined with Music and Mosaics Concerts at The Philadelphia Magic Gardens. Here I watched ancient meet present as Aztec dancers performed ritual dances, followed by modern lyrical stylings meshed…
I stood outside the doors of the Rotunda, on the steps of the Capital Building and was permitted to go no further. From where I stood I could hear the chants, cheers, and clamoring yells resound. The guard told me the Rotunda reached maximum capacity and no one could go any further and added, “This…
To Philadelphia, With Love (Photo 1): I know New York does it bigger and better. Portland does it cleaner and hipper. Yet, there’s something very real about Philly. She’s that girl that doesn’t get gussied up for the party, because there’s nothing to prove. She knows her short coming. She knows her beauty. There’s no…