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Dispatch from Cudjoe Key . . .
Yes, it is cold today in Florida…and windy; even the birds are blown about in the impossibly blue sky. If your only sense was sight you’d think it was delightfully warm; the wind-blown palms sparkle in the sun as if it were 80 degrees out instead of 57. But at least two hardy souls refuse [...]
Trials of the Quotidian
I looked up the other day and realized I had let most of October go by without a posting. Most bloggers operating without an entourage of eager bloggophers soon find themselves having to devote more time to life than their blogs. I am no exception but rather than let my blog languish, causing my four [...]
Don Donaghy, Photographer, 1936-2008
This seems to be the Summer for eulogies…
Don Donaghy, 2000, by George Krause
I first met Don Donaghy, the photographer, when he was taking pictures in the early 60s. We met again in his last years when he had returned to photography after many years of pursuing other arts such as film-making and sculpture.
All photos by Don Donaghy [...]
Carl William Kimes, 1937-2008
A childhood friend died on June 19: Carl William Kimes, aged 71, of a stroke in Bethesda, Md.
I knew him by three names during his lifetime, Billy, his name during our childhood, Koonie, his nickname as a teen-ager, and Carl, his given name, by which he was known as an adult. To me, of course, [...]