Spring is Coming

Here's my proof, right on the window sill:






Even the dead flowers are pretty:

Plantains and Potatoes--same difference?

So, I recently (meaning yesterday) learned that plantains are known as "potatoes of the air," as well as being in the banana family. It turns out that potatoes (the ones in the dirt) contain potassium in amounts comparable to that found in bananas. This doesn't make me want to start putting chunks of potato into my breakfast cereal, but it does make me feel better about making mashed potatoes for dinner. Maybe we should start calling potatoes "bananas of the ground." Actually, I think the French already call potatoes the apples of the earth...but that's comparing apples and bananas!

My view of NY...

I took this photo last March, on a bus ride to Boston. (To visit J & W and take their engagement photos!) I believe it's the view crossing the Williamsburg bridge in Brooklyn, overlooking a cemetery in Queens with the Manhattan skyline behind it. So that covers three of the five boroughs. I love the contrast of the tombstones and the skyline, the quiet and the motion, the blur of the moving cars and the smear on the window. The clouds and the snow and the sunset.

I had forgotten about this photo--there are a lot of photos I've taken that I haven't managed to sort through. Then last month a fellow alumni from my college photography program revived a tradition that we had there--an annual print exchange. In searching for a photo to give, I came across this. I really like it; I'm even making a second copy for my wall. I was actually pleasantly surprised by the number of good photos I found from the last year--I hadn't thought I'd been photographing that much. The person who received it in the print exchange likes it too--he says that he doesn't have any photos of the city displayed, and this will be perfect.