Learning to Hop

Learning to Hop

My son is learning to jump and hop now.  I wanted to capture this moment in a photo so I took three shots of him in action and then combined them into one image.  The vintage polaroid/1970 photomat-look was added just because watching him grow up reminds my of my own childhood was back in the….well,… Continue reading Learning to Hop

Open for Refreshments

Open for Refreshments

We picked up our Christmas tree for the house today.  It wasn’t quite a Charlie Brown tree, but it was probably one of the smallest they had.  We went to a place in Riverwest off of Humboldt Boulevard in Milwaukee called Kellners Greenhouses.  It doesn’t look like much from the street but you don’t see… Continue reading Open for Refreshments

X Blocks

X Blocks

These are my son’s old alphabet stacking blocks.  And he loves playing with them.  Well, I have to admit, that I love playing with them too.  Spelling out words,  seeing how high I can stack them, building pyramids – all the things a middle aged man is supposed to do, right?  No, you say?  

Footprints

Footprints

“Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.” –Henry David Thoreau

Pabst Beer: Good Old Time Flavor

Pabst Beer: Good Old Time Flavor

“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy” –Benjamin Franklin A small basement event space in one of the many renovated buildings in the old Pabst brewery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The Last Flowers of Autumn

The Last Flowers of Autumn

“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” –Anne Frank Some of the last flowers of autumn cling to life as the death of the season falls around them.