My You Tube favorites, by Rich Paschall In the past singers gained popularity through radio play and variety shows on radio and television. Now music is on streaming services and video sites. The most popular video site, of course, is… Read More ›
Month: June 2016
SHOULD YOU FORGET THE CAMERA, TRY THE PHONE
A Photo a Week Challenge: Phone-tography From Nancy Merrill: “Cell phone photography is so prevalent these days, I figured it was about time I had a challenge where you pull out your phones and take a picture. There’s no theme… Read More ›
BUT THAT WAS LONG AGO
An awful lot of people seem endlessly fascinated by childhood, especially their own childhood. Maybe it was such a wonderful time that they will forever regret leaving it. Maybe it was their best of times. For them, the grown-up world has never been able to… Read More ›
DAM NUMBER 190 ON THE MUMFORD RIVER
Every dam in the Blackstone Valley, whether on the Blackstone River or one of its tributaries (in this case, the Mumford River) has a number. It’s etched in stone somewhere in the stones. You need a long lens to find… Read More ›
GOP TO SENIORS: JUST DIE ALREADY
If you’re on Medicare, that’s the message you’re getting. Paul Ryan wants to bring back allowing insurance companies to refuse insurance based on pre-existing condition. In other words, if you’re really sick, you definitely won’t get medical help. He also wants… Read More ›
SKY OF BLUE, SKY OF GRAY
Yesterday came; yesterday went. I filled out my papers, got fitted for a crown on the surviving forward molar. Throughout the long day, the sky was bright and blue. This morning, gray has returned … and we’ve got something that’s surely “going… Read More ›
CEE’S BLACK & WHITE CHALLENGE: RIGGING CLOSEUPS
CEE’S BLACK & WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE: CLOSE-UPS There are closeups and then, there are even closer-ups. I take a lot of super closeups using a macro lens– typically flowers. These photographs are all closeups of the rigging of the tall ship “Beaver”… Read More ›
DOWN THE ROAD WITH FANATICISM AND IGNORANCE
Fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding … and we are feeding it well. I originally posted this four years ago. Horribly enough, it’s even more relevant now than it was then. “Inherit the Wind” (1960) was directed by Stanley Kramer. Not… Read More ›
FORGING AHEAD WITH PURPOSE AND A HEADACHE
I have been depressed. Not that dark “can’t get out of bed” depression that some people get and that I have also experienced. This is the slow, grinding depression that accompanies having a lot of stuff to do that I… Read More ›
BOSTON HARBOR – IN BLACK & WHITE
And now, in living black and white … Boston Harbor.
THEY’RE BACK! RETURN OF THE GYPSY MOTH
It’s going to be a big year for the gypsy moths. They never really leave, but some years are really bad compared to other, relatively light years. This is going to be a bad year. One side of my house… Read More ›
VENTURING TO ADVENTURE
Adventure. What a word! It conjures visions of mountains to climb, rivers to ford. Diving to see the ocean bottom. Jumping from airplanes or diving into canyons tethered by elastic bands. I was never physically adventurous. This had less to do with… Read More ›
