f/11 & Be There

2011-10-22T11:31:00.000-05:00

October Deer

2011-09-11T10:01:00.003-05:00

Rainbow Chairs

2011-06-14T15:22:00.000-05:00

Mailbox Red/Blue

2011-06-02T21:17:00.000-05:00

Spring Foal May '11

Jessamine Co. KY

2011-05-09T19:55:00.002-05:00

Madison, Indiana

2011-04-29T15:41:00.001-05:00

Red Wall Cincinnati

2011-04-11T20:29:00.001-05:00

Fizz'z

2011-02-09T21:34:00.001-05:00

2011-01-26T21:56:00.001-05:00

Two Horses

2011-01-25T22:47:00.001-05:00

Queen Anne's Lace

2010-10-18T20:23:00.003-05:00

2010-08-20T23:24:00.003-05:00

219 N. Limestonte

Downtown Lexington

2010-08-15T04:38:00.001-05:00

Channeling Dexter Gordon

2010-08-11T06:16:00.001-05:00

RedCap

circa '55 MG

2010-08-08T17:44:00.001-05:00

2010-07-19T17:47:00.001-05:00

Serendipity

2010-06-22T21:01:00.001-05:00

Manchester Thoroughbred Farm

Lexington, KY

2010-06-15T08:18:00.005-05:00

Red/White

2010-06-15T08:18:00.004-05:00

Flower Pots

2010-06-15T08:16:00.000-05:00

Windowsill Guatemala

2010-06-06T08:20:00.000-05:00

Shadow Circle

2010-05-27T10:24:00.000-05:00

Riley In Contemplation

2010-05-12T21:45:00.000-05:00

Three Amigos

2010-05-12T05:05:00.000-05:00

Spring Foal

Images from Thomas Jefferson Elem. School Chicago

2010-04-24T18:43:00.002-05:00

From Chicago

2010-04-24T17:57:00.004-05:00

Cloud Gate a.k.a. "the bean"

Wrigley Building

2010-04-20T20:57:00.000-05:00

Old School Desks

Chicago

2010-04-20T20:55:00.000-05:00

Old School Staircase

Chicago

2010-04-20T20:53:00.001-05:00

Old School Cloakroom
Chicago

2010-04-05T17:01:00.000-05:00

Jonquil Pair

2010-04-04T13:47:00.000-05:00

Duo

2010-03-31T21:32:00.000-05:00

Two Horses, Early Spring

2010-03-31T18:48:00.000-05:00

Red Fence, Blue-Eyed Horse

2010-03-21T21:55:00.000-05:00

Trio

2010-03-10T20:44:00.000-05:00

Tattler's Branch - Early March

2010-03-10T20:43:00.001-05:00

White, Blue, Red

2010-03-10T20:41:00.000-05:00

Bluebird House

2010-03-05T13:16:00.000-05:00

Red Fence

2010-02-21T16:00:00.000-05:00

Columns of Condiment

2010-02-19T09:27:00.000-05:00

Empty Barn

2010-02-16T21:11:00.002-05:00

2010-02-16T21:02:00.001-05:00

Not-so-Bluegrass country

2010-02-14T15:54:00.001-05:00

estato o calidad de madre

2010-02-14T02:29:00.002-05:00

2010-02-12T15:55:00.002-05:00

Horse in Cedars

2010-02-12T15:03:00.000-05:00

Shed Winter 2010

2009-12-23T21:03:00.000-05:00

Leaves & Glass

2009-12-22T19:50:00.000-05:00

Red Brick Yellow Leaf

2009-12-16T09:27:00.000-05:00

Poke Plant with Horse

2009-12-10T10:11:00.001-05:00

L.R. #1

2009-12-08T17:13:00.000-05:00

Barn Pickup

2009-12-08T16:32:00.000-05:00

Open Bar

2009-12-02T21:12:00.003-05:00

Valley View #2

2009-11-26T12:48:00.000-05:00

Valley View Ferry

2009-11-26T12:47:00.001-05:00

Mourning Dove

Spirit Ridge Ln.

2009-11-19T21:52:00.000-05:00

Hydrant #1

Saturday a.m.

Lexington

2009-10-17T10:59:00.001-05:00

Ash Grove Pk, Jessamine Co., KY

2009-10-04T19:24:00.003-05:00

Blue/white

Nicholasville, KY

2009-09-22T21:29:00.003-05:00

Brooklyn -- Raul

street side memorial

Brooklyn, NY

2009-08-27T19:19:00.002-05:00

Oh! Sunflower

2009-08-25T10:03:00.002-05:00

White & Green
Richmond, KY

2009-08-17T21:45:00.002-05:00

Roadside Memorial
Jessamine Co. KY

2009-08-17T21:42:00.002-05:00

Roadside Memorial
Near Hodgenville, KY

Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky

2009-08-02T15:00:00.003-05:00

2009-07-15T08:13:00.002-05:00

Kinetic Coneflowers

2009-07-14T22:06:00.003-05:00

White & Blue

2009-07-12T21:15:00.002-05:00

Fire Escape Cincinnati

2009-07-12T21:12:00.001-05:00

Spring Barn #3

2009-07-10T06:38:00.004-05:00

Union Cafe
Brooklyn

2009-07-09T08:13:00.002-05:00

Red on Red

2009-07-09T08:11:00.002-05:00

Graffiti God

2009-06-29T19:19:00.002-05:00

Dogs in Service

2009-06-23T20:51:00.003-05:00

Jesus, spotted in Brooklyn
December, 2008

2009-06-23T20:34:00.003-05:00

Shop window
Nicholasville, Kentucky
June 2009

2009-06-23T20:31:00.002-05:00

Swing set, San Lorenzo, Paraguay

2009-06-23T20:20:00.004-05:00

Private shrine, near Asuncion Paraguay

Visiting Antigua

2009-02-13T08:58:00.003-05:00

Visiting Lake Atitlan

2009-02-12T14:10:00.003-05:00

Visiting Sacred Mayan Sites

2009-02-12T13:48:00.005-05:00

We had the good fortune to visit this particular site on the first day of the Mayan new year. The Mayan holy man holding the box was performing a blessing ceremony for a young couple about to get married. Two chickens were sacrificed and the blood sprinkled on the pyre made of candles, herbs and who knows what else.

Rural Life in Quiche

2009-02-12T13:28:00.008-05:00

Firewood was the main source of heat for cooking. Every day in Santa Cruz just before lunchtime we could smell wood fires which had been started to cook the noon meal. Since one side of the clinic building was open we could smell this every day in the clinic.

The following few pictures are in a household that makes beautiful fabric that women use for their traditional garments.

Closeup and distant views of two different cemetaries. The colorful structures are crypts.

Onesight Guatemala Mission -- Santa Cruz del Quiche

2009-02-11T09:00:00.009-05:00

Clinic Life

2009-02-10T19:57:00.034-05:00

For some reason -- (bribes? who knows) our inventory of glasses was held up by the govt. It supposedly had to do with paperwork.

After waiting and waiting for a whole week the Guatemalan govt. finally released our inventory of glasses.

Saturday we worked at the clinic site until 8:00pm to unpack and organize the glasses. We then pulled glasses for all of the people who had attended the clinic during the first week. This was a portion of our inventory.

OneSight Guatemala Mission Hotel Sitio

2009-02-10T08:56:00.016-05:00

This was the view from the front door of our hotel.

This is how our hotel got its water on a daily basis. No hot water to speak of and if you weren't prompt about taking a shower maybe no water at all.

This was a fairly typical dinner -- Chicken with rice and a mild red sauce that was the regional dish of choice. This night we had a potato and two huge chunks of carrot.

We were assured there would be internet access at the hotel. Very important considering none of the rooms had phones. However, Central America being what it is -- this sign greeted us upon our arrival.
This was our hotel -- The Hotel Sitio. Unquestionably the best one in town.

Chilling out in front of the hotel with a couple of the Optometrists after the last day of clinic. Mui cerveza!!

Inexplicably we had a plate of hotdog buns set out every night for dinner. No hotdogs -- just the buns

Other than two beds and a small night stand this was the only furniture in our room

In the hotel lobby.

OneSight Guatemala Mission -- getting there

2009-02-10T08:42:00.005-05:00

Getting there:
So the trip from Guatemala City to Santa Cruz del Quiche was supposed to take about 3 hours. It ended up taking 6 hours. One of the reasons was that our bus got stuck on a curb in a narrow street in Chichicastenengo -- a small town which was on the way to Santa Cruz. We all had to get off the bus. Our driver and his assistant lifted one side of the bus up with 2x4's and rocked the bus back and forth to get it un-stuck.

This was not a problem for the local "chicken busses" -- Guatemala is where old school busses from the US go to be re-born as public transport -- complete with spiffy new paint jobs.

YIKES!!! When rounding narrow curves he who honks first and loudest has the right-of-way.

Grand Central

2008-11-17T20:39:00.002-05:00

Where There's Hope There's Squaredancing

2008-11-11T21:26:00.003-05:00

Seen in a beauty shop window

Nicholasville, KY

Fall Barn #1

2008-11-11T20:38:00.002-05:00

One of a vanishing breed -- the old tobacco barns of Central Kentucky.

Blue Eyed Grass (from 2008 KY wildflower series)

2008-08-09T07:37:00.001-05:00

Dashboard -- old Metropolitan Auto

2008-03-31T15:12:00.004-05:00

short street

2007-03-29T12:38:00.000-05:00

2 Nuns -- Firenze

2006-06-01T22:21:00.000-05:00

subway #2

2006-06-01T10:57:00.000-05:00

Tractor's Eye View

2006-05-25T08:43:00.000-05:00

Old Tractor Dashboard

2006-05-25T08:41:00.000-05:00

Iris #1

2006-05-19T10:17:00.000-05:00

Pigeon Man

2006-05-13T08:27:00.000-05:00

Taxi!! Brooklyn, NY 2005

2006-05-05T09:33:00.002-05:00

Firenze '05

2006-04-29T08:37:00.000-05:00

Subway #1

2006-04-29T08:27:00.000-05:00