Caliente

I Rather Like Irises

"I rather like irises," Nancy said, looking out the kitchen window at a flowerbed full of purple blooms. She spoke in a silly, sing-songy voice that I imagined she had used in reading to her three children when they were small. Her oldest son was sitting there too, and we all burst out laughing that she had interrupted the flow of our conversation with her totally unrelated pronouncement about irises.

Now, every year when I see blooming irises, I smile and think of Nancy--who always makes me laugh--and I remember, "I rather like irises."

(This is the Nancy for whom my cat is named.)

Helping Hands

At the Cherokee Triangle Art Fair, Louisville, Kentucky.

When I go to an art fair, I always spend more time watching people than looking at the art. I loved this fleeting vignette: a father helping his son, tiny hands contrasted with adult hands. One can sense the love and trust between them.

These two were standing just outside the children's tent where dozens of kids were dressed in smocks, creating all kinds of art projects.

Balloon Glow

Derbytide

Churchill Downs

Contrasts

Pottery Abstract

Fire in the Sky

Come Hither

A Little Vintage, Bardstown Road, Louisville, Kentucky

Vintage

April 20, 1963, was the day I arrived on this planet. Tonight, 44 years later, I dined with friends and didn't leave time to make a photograph. So, minutes before midnight, I opened a photo album from year one and snapped a picture of that. I guess I took a day off.

Nancy's MySpace Photo

Silly Fusilli

Bellarmine Knight

Pondering the Lily

You Lookin' at Me?

Animals always give me attitude. I don't know why. This snarky critter lives at the Louisville Zoo.
www.louisvillezoo.org

Jammin'

Goin' to the Chapel

Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at the Ursuline Campus Schools
3177 Lexington Road, Louisville, Kentucky

Skipping through Suburbia

Looking for Rainbows

It rained almost all day here, then when the sun finally came out late in the evening, a friend called me to say there was a great double-rainbow. I went out immediately, but didn't see it at all. Too bad. The light and the sky were still beautiful, though.

Farnsley-Moremen House

www.riverside-landing.org

This is day 100 of Project365!

Cherokee Park

Easter Brunch

Easter Brunch at the Jefferson Club, 500 W Jefferson Street, Louisville, Kentucky

I hate that I couldn't get her face, and I didn't have the guts to close in for a clear, noise-free shot; but one can still see that she is fabulous in her Easter frock and hat.

Oh, I could write a sonnet about your Easter bonnet . . . .

--Irving Berlin

Babies Shouldn't Have Babies

Hall of Justice

Hall of Justice, 600 W. Jefferson Street, Louisville, KY

Cally Lily

I've Lost My Keys

Dark Shadows

Stairway to Heaven

Ladder to Nowhere

The Dartmouth

The Dartmouth-Willow Terrace Condominiums
1412 Willow Avenue, Louisville, KY 40204