Stonehenge

Around the curve of the stones. You cannot go anywhere closer to them than this, which is good both for preservation and for being able to take photos like these, which do not show the hundreds of people thronging along the walkway at this distance.

Stonehenge

A closer look at one of the "gateway" forms of slabs around the Stonehenge circle.

Stonehenge

One morning in Britain a year and a half ago, I accidentally visited Stonehenge. I was driving from London to Devon to visit my relatives there, and from the fog beside the highway suddenly arose the misty outline of the stones. Startled, overjoyed, and in no rush to arrive at my destination, I pulled off at the turn and walked out to gaze in contemplation on the weathered prehistory of my ancestors.

Sunset, Iowa City

Clear, wide skies at sunset, punctuated with scattered clouds, above a neighborhood I walked through one evening along a ways from our house in Iowa City.

Patterned Clouds, Iowa City

A bending ribbed sequence of clouds, drifting past in remarkably durable formation as they patterned the sky above the fairgrounds one evening on the outskirts of Iowa City.

You are having an intergalactic conversation with the fence, Cambridge, MA

I don't think that I can even pretend to understand just what this means, and I don't care. The owners of this art-house near Central Square in Cambridge have clearly created a set of images and sculpture quite meaningful to them, and I am content to simply appreciate it.

Sidewalk mosaic, Cambridge, MA

Two old-timey children, picked out meticulously in small sepia-toned ceramic tiles in an apparently random tile of sidewalk in Cambridgeport.