All is boisterous on New Years Eve Day

i took this picture just before the fall was swept away

Thanksgiving 

 it's saturday morning, and the winter is faithfully coming on.

So last night Lanie was like, "Let's flip the channel and see how the Silver Fox is doing." And I'm like, "Sure thing babe." Next thing you know we're

at CNN and this is what we're looking at:

I have to say, last night there were plenty of reasons to be proud to be an American, but none more compelling than this.

last of the quaint light house pictures. (i swear it!)

We left Brooklyn one month and one day ago. It feels like it's been years.

enacting the dread of the day

this is my photo of a horror-bespectacled lighthouse here in northern michigan. enjoy it ...... if you dare.

In preparation, for the terror-laced, over-exposed Halloween time fun.

the myth of specialness

this is a picture of the local beach here in Charlevoix. it never looks the same as the colors seem to depend on what the wind is doing. the wind is usually doing something, that much is for sure. it's getting ominously cold - the kind of cold that makes you feel bewildered about what kind of person you want to be in the world, or a sparsely populated town. the other day i walked into the post office at three p.m. and there wasn't a single other customer in the entire building. the other day i ordered spaghetti with marinara sauce and i got egg noodles with ketchup. 

rrrraaaarrrrrrrh

no more nature channel!

on these days we visit the dunes

this is not prospect park anymore

Highlights from Applefest!: 2008

Vegetables, Burritos and Floating Heads

i took these adorable pictures of ingrid

just before she went mad and tried to murder us all

second morning

new home pictures

after stopping in on canada and niagra falls, we arrived to charlevoix on thursday. it is quiet here.

"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.” -Anais Nin

Just Joking Sillies

Of course Ingrid is coming with us.