SLIDE SHOW: Trustees of Reservations Will Garrison watches his “decorative” cows munch the green grass at the bottom of the hill. They don’t actually belong to him, or for that matter, to Naumkeag, the historic mansion (now a museum) in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, that he helps manage. More than 30 years ago, the Trustees of Reservations […]
READ MORE: More Cape Cod articles MORE PHOTOS: Cape Cod Photos by Alison Shaw It’s a light that glows from within, like driving into an Edward Hopper painting. Bright, buttery, demanding, it glances off the water and sinks into the sand and sea-weathered shingles. Paint me, notice me, it whispers–I’m spring for your eyes and […]
Gordon Lankton’s first Russian icon, a c. 1850 image of St. Nicholas, hangs in a dark corner of the lowest level of his museum. He found it lying in the dust at a Russian flea market in 1990 and bought it for $25. He doesn’t think it’s a very good one anymore, and he’s not […]
When I was in high school, the kids who took French class were treated to a special end-of-year lunch at a restaurant housed inside a historic 19th-century lecture hall in Salem, Massachusetts. While dining at The Lyceum, we had to speak only in French and at least try les cuisses de grenouilles (frogs’ legs). We […]
I spent a quick getaway at The Balsams in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, about six years ago and it was a lovely vacation, complete with outdoor adventure (ice skating, cross country skiing, and downhill skiing) and scrumptious food–two things I thoroughly enjoy. That’s why The Great North Woods 30K Classic cross country race, scheduled to […]
A beautiful tree in Sedona AZ that almost seems to be opening its branches to welcome you.
Here is my dog, Zeke, keeping sentinel over our neighborhood, in the shadow of the American Flag.
Date: 2/1/10
Camera: Nikon D90
Lens: Nikon 18-55mm VR 3.5-5.6G
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Aperture: f/22
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This picture was taken in Galilee, RI on the boat docks in mid afternoon with very cold skies and a temp in the teens. I enhanced the color curves of the picture with Nikon Capture NX2 to give it this surreal effect and to bring out how cold and harsh winter can be.
I decided to hop a stone wall and see what I could find in an old abandoned apple orchard. I was surprised at the colors within.
I decided to walk through an old abandoned apple orchard one day and found that there is much color within even in winter.
The console of the Kotzschmar Organ looks lonely at the center of the stage in Portland City Hall’s Merrill Auditorium. The room swallows it. With an imposing facade of pipes towering before it and three tiers of seats looming behind, the console seems tiny and vulnerable–like a raft poised on the lip of a whale. […]
We wish we could take credit for discovering Hen of the Wood, but Food & Wine magazine, the New York Times, and the James Beard Foundation, among others, have already bestowed their highest praise upon executive chef/co-owner Eric Warnstedt. And with good reason: Warnstedt is putting his money where his mouth is when he says […]
