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Art Photos

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on January 21, 2026| 6 Comments »

Photos:John and Suzanne’s Mom.
Joy Muller-McCoola’s fiber art piece “Rising,” at Lexington Art.

Textile artist Ann often digs me out of my rut to go see some fiber art and afterward have a nice lunch somewhere close by. Most recently, we went to a beautiful show at the Lexington Arts and Crafts Society in Lexington, Massachusetts.

I was drawn to the piece above because I love islands. This one is emerging from the sea in an unspoiled form. It felt hopeful. Below is one called “Sky with 7 Sheep.” It practically leapt from the wall.

After that, you can see the lovely “Light Breaking on Water,” by Ann Scott. And Sandra Mayo’s “The Way We Touch the World,” with the gloved hands, was intriguing.

What do these pieces mean to the artists? one wonders. What do they mean to me at a moment in time? And do meanings change?

That got me thinking that I never posted pictures of some works that I liked last fall at Concord Art. So I’ll add them now and wind up with my own attempt at an artsy photo. We can call it “Dawn at the Gym.”

Here is Nancy Mimno’s “Dragon.”

Sarah Bossert created “Four and Twenty Blackbirds.”

Below, Carol Rabe’s “Late Night Snack.”

“Dawn at the Gym.”


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A Gathering of Photos

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 2, 2025| 11 Comments »

Photos: Suzanne’s Mom.

After an unexpected visit from mushroom hunters in September, I’ve started paying attention to what pops up after rain. It’s not that I want to eat wild mushrooms, but I would like to know something about them. Their names for example. I do know the one above. It used to be called Indian pipe, but nowadays, it’s called Ghost pipe, a name that works for me. [Late note: See naturalist Kim Gaffett’s helpful corrections in the comments below.]

Just from noticing a little more, I’ve realized that the round yellow ones with the white dots flatten out after a few days. I haven’t decided if I want to pay for the mushroom-identifier app, so if you’re a micologist, maybe you could tell me the little guy’s name.

From my walks in Massachusetts: there’s a black squirrel who lives along the bike path, unusual around here. Kathleen’s garden box features a gigantic aster practically dancing with buzzing pollinators. Pat’s garden box has late-blooming dahlias. The milkweed announces fall.

From my walks in Rhode Island: New Shoreham’s West Side beaches are quiet in the evening. One view shows the goldenrod that covers the island at this time of year. The tiny frog is, I think, a peeper, normally seen in spring. The shark on the rock celebrates a big anniversary for a famous movie that gave white sharks a bad name. The cloud photo shows the sea at its most benign. The one after that shows its dark side, a tombstone for fishermen whose bodies will never be found.

From where I live now: artwork that includes a metal fish by Cassie Doyon and Muppet-like shapes by Joan Mullen. Finally, an early morning view of the Sudbury River from our fitness center.

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New Photos, August

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on August 28, 2025| 4 Comments »

Photo: Nancy’s nephew Andrew.
Beautiful poison. The moon is clothed in smoke from a distant wildfire.

Here are recent photos in no particular order. They cover Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania, where we attended my brother-in-law’s funeral.

I start off below with an ambitious dog on the rail trail. His owner told me firmly, “He’s not taking that one home.” Then I have a photo of the nearby mural depicting our town in the 19th century.

A couple of painted rock offerings come next. (Someone is a fan of the New York City mayoral candidate who won his primary.)

Staghorn sumac, thistle shadows, a blooming August yard, swamp rose mallow, New Shoreham’s Old Harbor, the Assabet River, a swallowtail butterfly holding still for photographer Sandra M Kelly, Casey Farm, Morning glories or bindweed (not sure which), the shop where I got my 100-year-old quilt repaired, the 30th Street Amtrak station in Philadelphia, and gulls on a fishing vessel in Galilee.

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Theater and Other Photos

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on July 19, 2025| 7 Comments »

Photos: Suzanne and John’s Mom.

Here are a few recent photos, including some from a very entertaining but sweltering off-island theater excursion with the seniors.

First is my wonderful chair pilates teacher, Britt, who is also a singer. Her students showed up in force at the retirement community as we had never had the opportunity before to see her perform. She was great. I’m noticing her strong fingers on the guitar in this photo. Finger strength is one of the things we all work on in her class.

For some reason our community has acquired a large memento from the town’s 250th anniversary, A giant replica of one of Paul Revere’s lanterns (“one if by land, two if by sea”), which now resides in the town’s museum.

Next, there’s an old gas pump that speaks for itself.

From the heat wave: days almost too hot to walk down to the water. And some advice from a snail.

At Bill Hanney’s historic Theatre-by-the-Sea we saw the Broadway musical Waitress, a polished and fun performance. In its long history of destruction and rebirth, Theatre-by-the-Sea has featured performers like Judy Holliday, Tallulah Bankhead, Mae West, Groucho Marx, and Marlon Brando. It’s in a lovely garden setting and also has a restaurant.

I went on the seniors’ theater trip to hear this song. Here it is sung by the show’s originator, Sara Bareilles, when she performed it on Broadway.

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Summer in New England

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on July 5, 2025| 11 Comments »

Photos: Suzanne and John’s Mom.
Blue lacecap hydrangea on a sunny day.

The photo collection below starts with my visit to the annual Umbrella Art show in the woods, which this year was located on Brister’s Hill for the town’s 250th Anniversary.

Brister Freeman was a man who started life in slavery. Thoreau spoke of him. The art show honors the travails and aspirations of enslaved Americans in New England, which was not an exception to slavery. You can read about the show, “Weaving an Address,” here.

The artist of the indigo slave cabin, Ifé Franklin, wrote a personal message to Brister Freeman and his wife on one wall. The color indigo references slavery’s “other cash crop.” Click here for info on that.

Incongruously, a Lorax hangs out in nearby Walden Woods. I had to take a picture of him as he represents what Dr. Seuss had to say about protecting nature.

Transitioning from Massachusetts to vacation in Rhode Island, I include a fishing boat seen in Point Judith on a foggy day. Point Judith is where I catch the boat to New Shoreham, but it’s also a working port.

New Shoreham’s iconic Southeast Light is the first of my recent New Shoream photos.

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Sand Sculptures from the Nomad

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on June 19, 2025| 1 Comment »

2025 Hampton Beach Sand Sculpting Classic (Hampton Beach, Hampton, NH)

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Jumbled Seasons in Pictures

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on April 14, 2025| 4 Comments »

Photo: John.
Our older granddaughter skiing in Maine. I’m told it was cold.

Today’s photo roundup covers some winter and some spring. The weird thing is that just as we were beginning to enjoy spring in Massachusetts, we got a snowfall on April 12th, followed by a warm and sunny day today. That makes us wonder what April 19th will be like — a big deal here. It’s the 250th anniversary of what we think of as the beginning of the American Revolution, the confrontation at the North Bridge. (Amazing to think of how long democracy has lasted among erring mortals!)

Getting back to the photos, there was fresh snow on the boardwalk in February, making it eminently skiable. But after a few days of people walking there, it was all ice.

Next photo shows Erik’s Squirrel Buster birdfeeder with a visiting cardinal.

Keeping warm indoors at our retirement place, we enjoyed Joe Reid’s latest trio, with guest vocalist Mikayla Shirley from Berklee College of Music.

My anthurium in the sun is next.

The rest of the photos are from several local art displays.

They include an outsize but otherwise lifelike banana peel by Mary Kenny, a marble bird by Stephen Wetzel, and “Pollen,” a piece of fabric art by Rebecca V. Mann expressing her preoccupation with the fragility of nature. These are followed by Felix Beaudry’s woven head. Resting.

The last photos are part of an extensive sidewalk exhibit in which works by artists of all ages were somehow laminated and glued down so people could walk on them. You can see my shoes. The first, of trees, is by Jack Confrey, a young guy you’ll meet meet if you go to the website, here.

Then there’s a child’s art and a QR code for anyone interested.

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A Few Pictures

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on January 21, 2025| 1 Comment »

Photos: John and Suzanne’s Mom.
A gourd-body bull by Dave Smyth is being shown at Concord Art’s juried member show, 2025. Don’t you love how artists see potential that so many of us miss?

Today’s pictures are mostly from art exhibits I attended this month. The show at Concord Art, above, was in the process of being set up when Meredith and I went. She aims to submit work for the next show and has appeared in several earlier ones.

The orange giant who is holding up the world is at the Fitchburg Art Museum, where Ann and I took in several exhibits — in particular the Bob Dilworth. Born in Virginia, Dilworth taught art for many years in Rhode Island. I liked learning more about noted 19th century Black landscape painter Edward Bannister, seen in the portrait with his wife. Dilworth’s paintings, which he often worked on for years, feature a collage-like effect from the layering of textiles, stenciling, more.

I knew about Bannister before, but was glad to read something about his wife here.

The next two photos do not show such professional work but rather are ceramics created by people of many skill levels who live in my retirement community. They made sea creatures for display in the nursing building. There’s a marine theme throughout that section, including a big salt water fish tank. I visited a friend there, and now I visit her in the memory-care building.

The final photo is actually from my December trip to New York City. There is loads of public art in Penn Station. Nice to have something to look at if your are too early for your train!

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I Was in New York

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on December 10, 2024| 4 Comments »

Photos: John and Suzanne’s Mom.
Only in New York will you find people who care what happens to pigeons.

I was in crazy and wonderful New York for a few days. The occasion was the memorial for my friend Manny Kirchheimer, who was, as A.O. Scott of the New York Times once said, “an indispensable New York filmmaker, a noticer and a listener without peer.”

I walked around a lot and took pictures. And since I was in the city, I went to see “Egon Schiele: Living Landscapes” at the Neue Galerie, which was great. I do think New York museums have an awful lot of rules and waiting lines, but if you expect that, it’s easier to accept.

Among sights that caught my eye were giant murals by Chitra Ganesh in Penn Station (see Art at Amtrak). The hands offering pomegranates were on a pillar.

Although I can never compete with blogger Sherry’s Thursday Doors, which she gathers on a continent that really knows doors, I shot a New York one for her.

The two shots of Central Park are similar to ones I’ve taken before and shared, but every time I see that fantasy bridge or the Narnia lamp posts, I see them anew.

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Fall Photos from New England

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on November 27, 2024| 8 Comments »

Photos: Suzanne and John’s Mom.

It’s starting to feel like winter is around the corner, so I’ll just post a few photos from my New England autumn before the snow falls.

Below, clouds over the Seekonk River in Providence, Rhode Island, and chess-playing foxes in Fox Point. Also in Fox Point, the notorious Mayor Cianci’s plaque honoring both composer George M. Cohan — and Cianci himself.

In the same neighborhood, I got a kick out of the name of a 19th century homeowner. And a jazzed-up staircase across the street.

Back in Massachusetts, I found a nice shot of a different kind of staircase (jazzed up by light and shadow), then two fungus photos (one flower-like) and Starbucks receipts decorating a telephone pole. The pastry chef, age 11, has more baking experience than most adults.

In the what-the-heck-is-it department, there’s a decorative plant at Debra’s Natural Gourmet that is not milkweed but looks sort of like it. Any ideas?

Next comes Sally Frank’s magnificent Black Sycamore print in a frame reflecting my table lamp. Then a derelict house waiting for the land developer’s bulldozer, and a special map for the town’s 250th anniversary in 2025. Did you know the Revolution started at the North Bridge? Not with the Declaration of Independence, as significant as that was.

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End-of-Summer Photos

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on September 4, 2024| 18 Comments »

Photos: Suzanne and John’s Mom.

I went out to the deck early one morning and caught my breath. I knew I had to take a photo of the scene above even though all I use is a cellphone. The aperature was open a long time and my unsteady hand distorted the image a bit. My husband noticed that it created extra levels to the deck.

The next photo shows how much I admire Nature creating her own kind of art, often using shadows. Then for manmade art, I love visiting the late Ben Wohlberg‘s open houses. Part of the delight is to see his gardens and creatively decorated home.

As Catherine Wohlberg told me, her husband was able to support himself with art his whole life, from magazine illustration to portraiture to abstract. He focused on abstract work in his last years, and I include one of the quotes she posted for the 2024 show. Ben’s obituary is here.

Sandra M Kelly took the next photo, the best we got from the lotus pond this year. Such an amazing flower, but one that can take over if not confined in a small space.

The next few photos are also from New Shoreham, including the one of my granddaughter helping her mom make fresh spaghetti. (It tasted wonderful!)

The final two pictures were taken back in Massachusetts, where we’re heading into September and harvest season.

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Mole Crabs to Indian Pipes

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on August 3, 2024| 12 Comments »

I took a lot of photos in July. The light was so wonderful. If you have questions about what you are seeing here, please let me know in the comments.

I’ll just point out a few things. I took a close-up of a hosta flower. They normally look so droopy. This perky one caught my eye.

The raised flower and vegetable beds were just inaugurated at my retirement community for the many residents with green thumbs. I visit the gardens most mornings and take in the lovely scents. Is anyone else enamored of the way tomato plants smell — the leaves, the stems?

I was wildly excited when a granddaughter dug up a mole crab at the beach. I hadn’t seen one in decades. On Fire Island we used to call them “jumpies.”

I love Indian Pipes, too.

I greatly appreciated all the birthday flowers — from my son-in-law and from a dear niece and nephew.

There’s a lovely new exhibit of paintings where we live. Notice the light on those buildings.

Also notice that a dirt road can make art, too. This dirt road makes leaf prints!

I look forward to comments.

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Photos from Spring

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on June 26, 2024| 4 Comments »

Photos: John and Suzanne’s Mom, except for one.

Midsommar arrived with a heat wave in these parts, and now it’s summer. I decided to round up some things that caught my eye in spring before I start shooting summer.

Above is a Minuteman Park garden at the Buttrick House, featuring iris and peonies.

Wild iris bloom near a New Shoreham pond, and a flowery display decorates Wayland Avenue in Providence.

Rhododendrons on my early morning walk. The North Bridge in Concord. A well-loved antique car.

A weasel on the terrace at my retirement community — lots of excitement.

Sandra M. Kelly shot the photo of the Painted Rock, artist unknown. The work shows the island’s North Light, presumably at sunset.

I liked the early shadows at a playhouse I saw on my walk.

The stone fence near the historic house Smilin’ Through has a sweet view of Fresh Pond.

I bought a wonderful carrot-ginger soup at the farmers market. And I talked to a woman who was selling bottle-cap art and making more as she waited for customers.

Giant sushi rolls. (Just kidding. It’s sod.)

Early morning shadows.

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Some Friday Photos

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on May 17, 2024| 5 Comments »

Photos: John and Suzanne’s Mom.
Delicious-smelling lilac.

Lots to notice in nature at this time of year. I do love spring.

On trails near where I live, there have been wonderful wildflowers lately. I’ve seen pink lady slippers, Canada mayflowers, starflowers, and a trillium.

I always love the redbud trees, like the one in the next photo. The color once made me think it was a plum tree, but my sister straightened me out. I see redbuds everywhere these days.

Next is a weathered old Japanese cherry with an inviting hole for some future inhabitant. The tulips in front of the carpet of azaleas also spoke to me.

A longtime birder found this perfect wood thrush, dead with no visible injuries. He said it was just lying on the ground under the birdbath. A mystery.

Finally, I thought I would show you another kind of Liège waffle at the Burgundian in Attleboro — a savory one with chicken. Our grandson devoured it in no time.

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Moving Into Spring

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on April 30, 2024| 5 Comments »

Partly, of course, spring is about the angle of sunlight, how early the sun comes up, how late it stays. I never thought I had seasonal affective disorder, wasn’t sure I believed there was such a thing. But I do find I’m cheered up by sunlight, discouraged by gray skies.

The photos today are mostly self-explanatory, but I want to point out how vibrant the moss looks in early spring. Also, the last photo is of a New England wildflower called Mayapple.

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