Django

A great time last night catching up with our friends Phil McCray & Jean Callahan at Loudeac Tile Studio in Newfield- And when we got home, we found this tucked in the backseat of the car. So cool. Thanks, Phil!

Good To Go

Collegetown, 9.5.2009

I took this snapshot last September from a table at Collegetown Bagels. Where, not coincidentally, they have the world's finest oatmeal rasin cookies. Dispute this if you like, but bring proof.

Enfield Glen

Enfield Glen, 6.5.2010.

Taughannock Falls

Taughannock Falls, 5.16.2010.

G-Day

Yesterday La Petit Chou tried out a Trek 7100 at the Bike Rack in Collegetown. No decision yet but she looked fine and happy on it.

Graduation Day at Cornell is a spectacle. We cooled off awhile in CTB and I shot this happy grad.



A stop at Green Star for some bulk spices, then out to the Pines for Pinesburgers (only one apiece; we're not Challengers). A good day.

Enfield Glen

Treman Park, Ithaca.

Blue Light Phone

Looking north from the Sackett Footbridge. Up the steps, North Campus and the Observatory.

Two Kat McElroy pieces- one fiction, one non- from Eclectica’s archives: Laying On Hands, Best Ever Christmas.

Plantations After Dark

Cornell Plantations, 11.29.2009.

Sackett Footbridge

Sackett Footbridge, Beebe Lake, Cornell, 11.22.2009.

Summer evenings, when the sun is in the north, the bridge falls into shadow before sunset. But these too-brief autumn afternoons, the day's last sunlight still warms the stones. Up on the path, La Petit Chou makes friends with a cat.

Near Dusk

Near sunset– nearer dusk, descending the south path, but with sunlight still warming the treetops across the gorge- we met a ranger making his rounds. He’s a tall rangy guy, probably in his fifties, but his pace along the trails is that of a man twenty years younger, thirty. We’ve talked before, over at Buttermilk; if you listen, you’ll learn something. When I remarked about the quality of the light, he said, You notice the light. A lot of people don’t, and then it’s dark, and they don’t have a flashlight. They’ve got a cellphone, they think that’s all they need. Yeah, and they call you, I said. He smiled, turned, was on his way again. At the next turning, I looked back, but he was already gone.

Treman Park

Filing photos from a Sunday walk, we found it's been a year nearly to the day since we last walked Treman Gorge. Where'd this summer go. Where all summers go, I suppose, and all- for my liking anyway- too soon.

Paul McMillan

Summerdays in Ithaca, we usually want mostly to be outside, walking the gorges, photographizing, etc. But with autumn arriving cold and rainy this week, we decided yesterday might be a good opportunity to get in touch with an artist whose work we've admired for some time, Paul McMillan. When we called, he was at work in his Enfield studio, the historic former Methodist Church building, and he was happy to give us a tour. It's a unique and impressive space, well suited to both the creation and presentation of Paul's work. On his easel was this night scene. For more on this painting, click here.


Paul McMillan, Oak Tree, Hay Bales and Moonlight
Oil on Panel; 20" x 16"


Photo: Parnilla Carpenter.

Treman Lake

Treman Lake Path, Buttermilk Falls, Ithaca.

Taylor 3

The Taylor Hall archway is one of a handful of places that most say Cornell to me. Years ago, before the trees down the slope grew tall, you could see downtown Ithaca, the blue hills beyond half-lost in the promise of a hazy summer evening. I wish I'd photographed this place then. But enough of that first glimpse, first impression has stayed with me these years to color, I'm sure, many of my drawings, their gates, doorways, their beckoning light. Sometimes a memory is enough. But I love shooting Taylor too.

Founders

Founders Hall, Cornell, 9.5.2009.

Newfield

Near Town Line Road, Newfield. If I were Marty Poole, I might have set up an easel, begun painting. Lacking any such abilities, but determined nonetheless to capture something of the evening, I set up my tripod instead.

Taylor 2

Another from the Taylor Hall series, 8.31.2009. Had someone lost a contact? No, the object of interest was in fact a ladybug. Or maybe two.

Taylor Hall

Taylor Hall, Cornell University, 8.31.2009.

Six Mile Creek

From a Labor Day walk up Six Mile Creek, Ithaca. An overcast, autumn-like morning threatened, but by afternoon the sun emerged again, warming, cheering: Still summer. Whew.

Arboretum 2

Another from last weekend, at Cornell's Arboretum.