Category Archive: Street Life

Weekly Photo Challenge: Hope

HOPE Barack Obama, you either hope he does, or doesn’t, win this year’s U.S  Presidential election! As for Mitt and Newt, Rick and Ron, they certainly have high hopes, high apple pie in the… Continue reading

Weekly Photo Challenge: Celebration

Celebration Somewhere, in every woman, there is a little girl, jumping for joy without a care in the world . . .  . . .   Celebrate, L’Chaim!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Waiting

The bliss of restful waiting in the early afternoon sunshine down on West 14th St, NYC.   

Waiting

Two beautiful voices, echoing in the emptiness of the deserted streets in downtown San Francisco, drew us to an alley-way . . .  Waiting for Godot?  Waiting for time to pass . .… Continue reading

Breakfast in the Big Apple

My plan had been to put into words the magic of early morning Manhattan before the crowds hit the streets but Truman Capote did that with Holly Golightly’s fantasy that is forever Breakfast… Continue reading

Blood Shed in Zuccotti Park

Blood Shed in Zuccotti Park It was a rough day down in Zuccotti Park today, the roughest I have witnessed so far.  For now, all I want to do is soak in a… Continue reading

Police Occupy Wall St: Zuccotti Park Raided

Police Occupy Wall St:  Zuccotti Park Raided Police in riot gear raided Zuccotti park, site of the Occupy Wall St, in the early hours of this morning.  They arrested over two hundred people,… Continue reading

Weekly Photo Challenge: Windows

Windows Through windows to a window beyond . . . .

Weekly Photo Challenge: Opportunity

Opportunity Opportunity . . . such a lovely open word, full of promise and possibility but so fleeting. Here in New York the streets are full of opportunity and no more so than… Continue reading

Weekly Photo Challenge: Comfort

Protesting in Comfort! This from Occupy Wall Street today . . .     . . .  through a smudgy lens.  It was that kind of day!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Faces

Faces on the streets of New York. Making the scenes and working behind the scenes, beginning with road crew working at the back of the theatre where auditions for America’s Got Talent were… Continue reading

Weekly Photo Challenge: Up

I spent the last week in Los Angeles.  During an idle afternoon of sunshine at the fabulous Venice Beach I watched in awe as a group of young, and older, boys skated on… Continue reading

Weekly Photo Challenge: Flowers

Flowers are the reward for the hard and heavy work invested in gardening.  Nurtured from seeds planted in the dark depths of soil they bloom and grow, maybe even forever.  I think of the… Continue reading

Speed Blogging through London Riots

I love pie, and I love biscuits.  Who doesn’t appreciate a custard cream with a cup of tea at that oh so particular time of the day?  Put it all together and you… Continue reading

Weekly Photo Challenge Colourful

Allow me to introduce the charming and most colourful gentleman that is Kenneth.  I was walking through the mens clothing section of a store in San Francisco when he caught my eye.  His… Continue reading