Well to update everyone on my slip and fall injury I have a substantial tear in my right arm’s rotator cuff. If is painful and my range of motion is limited. This is a concern because my show season starts in the middle of March. I am hoping it s healed enough to set up [...]
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My shoulder injury , movies and mediocre pizza
Published by February 28th, 2010 in Earth light news, Personal and Philadelphia. 0 CommentsMayor Nutter and the city drops the snow ball
Published by February 14th, 2010 in Philadelphia. 0 CommentsAfter doing such a good job clearing the streets of the 28 inches of light fluffy snow, the Mayor dropped the proverbial snow ball during the 2nd storm of wet heavy snow. On Early Friday I heard Council woman Blackwell criticize the mayor for cutting back on the trucks being used for salt and plowing.
After [...]
Philadelphia Winter and How I am spending it
Published by February 13th, 2010 in About my photographs, Earth light news, Personal and Philadelphia. 1 CommentWith all the snow you might think I had tons of time to write my blog. Even though I spent a lot of time shoveling snow, I did manage to see two movies, three concerts, attend Lisa’s photography salon, get hooked on Lost via Hulu, walk a lot, and photograph Washington Square, League Island, the Love [...]
As I mentioned in the last entry during my layoff from blogging I attended several concerts. The first one was exceptional. It was the Curtis Institute Orchestra’s Graduation Recital with Joshua Gersen as conductor. The performance was exhilarating with Mr. Gersen’s conducting only matched by the energy of the orchestra. Any time you can see [...]
It has been a while since my last post. I apologize for the absence.
During the past two weeks I have seen two concerts, 1 movie, had a house guest, created new art pieces, and did the 10 day home show at the Philadelphia Convention center.
My friend Jeff, who I met in the mid 60’s and have [...]
Around My Philadelphia 1.9.10
Published by January 9th, 2010 in Personal, Philadelphia and art shows. 0 CommentsLast night Alice and I were invited to have dinner with Betsy Alexander and Burnell YOW! at the Smile Cafe. They are both artists recognized in their own right for their work, but at this present time they are probably known better as Nora the piano playing cat’s parents. http://www.ravenswingstudio.com/NoraWeb/nora_home.html
After dinner we attended an opening of a [...]
Around My Philadelphia 1.8.10
Published by January 8th, 2010 in Personal, Philadelphia and art shows. 2 CommentsLast night I was lucky enough to attend a reception at the University of Pennsylvania’s renowned Wistar Institute. it was for the winners of Nikon’s Small World photo competition. This competition is restricted to photographs taken through a microscope. There were demonstrations of the equipment, an awards ceremony and a short talk about the evolution [...]
Around My Philadelphia 1.7.10
Published by January 7th, 2010 in Personal, Philadelphia and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsA simply spent, but wonderful night
Last night I went to AVA for a free recital with Christopher Bolduc, baritone, Cynthia cook, Mezzp-suprano, Ryan Kuster, bass, and Corinne Winters, soprano doing a variety of pieces with Laurent Philippe on the piano. For more info about the recital go to http://www.avaopera.org/.
Even though German opera is not my [...]
Around My Philadelphia 1.6.10
Published by January 6th, 2010 in Personal and Philadelphia. 0 CommentsThis is a new project I am starting.
Alice and I dine out often. We frequent our favorite restaurants, but often enough we try new ones. We also go to music, lectures and day trips on a regular basis ; and we go to the movies once a week.
The first bit of info:
In general we go [...]
Philadelphia Volume 1: Rittenhouse Square
Published by April 11th, 2009 in Earth light news, Philadelphia and Photography. 0 CommentsThe Subject of the first volume is one of my favorite places in the city: Rittenhouse Square. It consists of 31 beautiful photographs spanning the four seasons.
