taking the cat to the vet

at the pickle expo

seafood and pasta near the George Washington Bridge last night.

Aunt Joan-will turn 94 in August

summer fire

Pizza in Connecticut

Long Island Sound from the Connecticut side.

at Naturel Bridge State Park, North Adams Massachusetts.

sunset hike

in the Berkshires

Du Bois boyhood home in Great Barrington, MA on Juneteenth.

forthcoming in Representations

at lunch in Queens

Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh

landed in the Azores

Fielding’s grave in Lisbon, strewn with jacaranda blossoms.

at Museu de Lisbon

The 20th century Portuguese writer José Maria Ferreira de Castro’s typewriter. He is very underrated as a creative writer and ethnographer, and I was very glad to see his museum in Sintra.

lunch in Sintra

Lisbon in the morning

sailboat on the Tagus