Back in the (Former) USSR

I never thought I’d see Moscow again, although I dreamed of it for fourteen years. I boarded a teeming Aeroflot flight in late summer 2005, as Katrina’s receding waters revealed, inch by inch, the erasure of New Orleans as I once knew it. Mourning for that blighted, intoxicating city, I rushed towards another place I…

Happy little tree

Just one pic today—this luminous maple tree from a botanical garden near Niagara Falls:   Related post:  A fun little photo excursion to Cheekwood Botanical Gardens Related post: Chihuly’s fall color