ginger snaps

New Year’s Day in the Honey Island Swamp

the Eastern European Crisis

I’ve been feeling a bit paralyzed the last few days. I went so far as to almost book myself a ticket to Warsaw yesterday because the Polish Red Cross is so utterly overwhelmed and I know the country fairly well.

I don’t have any photos of the Ukraine, but I do have lots of photos of Poland and her beautiful people. so, I’ll take a moment to share them now, as a brief time out to “do something” that is a bit of nothing.

Meadow Walk

landscape, nature, photography

A study of Half Dome – Yosemite

landscape, nature, photography

there’s something uniquely breathtaking about Half Dome. the way it calls to so many and looks like so many things to different people. on a recent trip to Yosemite I got some images from various angles – the way it juts out of the landscape is magical to me.

the back of a friend who stopped to gaze up at the granite

European vacation 2019 Part 5, London

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we wrapped up the hottest summer of our lives in London. honestly. we were *dripping* all day. it was triple digits all. day.

we went to the zoo… to see the little squirrel monkeys

We were actually there on the day Teresa May resigned – she just had driven thru there

European vacation 2019 Part 4, Kraków

Jewish heritage, photography, street photography

Kraków is a lovely city and I really love being there honestly. it’s a metro with as lot of history and vitality as well. a thriving nightlife with a sense of serious business. we also endured a crazy windstorm. but like the train misadventure, these are the things you remember. 😅

Kraków is another city where you can take synagogue tours – I hate that I didn’t label them at the time…

ceiling in the restaurant where we had dinner on the last night in Kraków

old town Kraków – we were on the hunt for cocoa

European vacation 2019 Part 3, Poland: various cities

Jewish heritage, nature, photography, street photography

I’ll probably try to have a separate page for Kraków. we spent the most time there and have family there as well. it was its own part of the trip.

I also feel like I want to give a heads up that this should have a content warning. there are Holocaust images from our trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau. I’m a photographer and I capture the beauty in the world around me but sometimes what’s around me is difficult to look at. continue at your own pace.

Rebuilt synagogue Bimah, Polin museum, Warsaw

view from the women’s side – the great synagogue, Warsaw

the Owesiciem synagogue – still in use and has a museum attached (and a cafe)

wildflowers, incoming storm, outside Birkenau

European vacation 2019 Part 2, Prague

photography, street photography

On a Friday morning we hopped on the TGV for what we hoped would be a beautiful weekend in Prague. it turned out to be a misadventure in European train travel, but we laugh when we look back. it all worked out in the end. and these are the stories you remember when you are old and grey and your grandkids ask you for stories…

the 3 below are from some of the synagogues. you can go on a synagogue tour of the historical synagogues of Prague but I didn’t label them (🤦🏼‍♀️) and now I don’t remember which one is which… they’re all really beautiful tho.