STREET PHOTOG: New York street photography

GALVESTON, Texas -- An oil platform sits at the horizon as father and son cowboys search for seashells, and the meaning of being Texan. Language is identity, but the tide has turned. Everywhere there are signs and instructions in Spanish. Pandering to Spanish-speaking communities, city and state legislatures have legitimized an identity which Texians had fought so hard against in the war for Texas independence (remember the Alamo?). At the federal level, the government not only has failed to secure the southern border from illegal immigration, it has opened wide the border with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the proposed Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), which will do harm to Texas (and America) the way the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo did to Mexico.

Plain and Delicious

ATLANTA AIRPORT, Georgia, Dec 21. -- A pilot walks past a sandwich shop.

Event Horizon

Predawn sky through plane window

AIRTRAN FLIGHT, Atlanta, Georgia -- ♪ Though I’m past one hundred thousand miles, I’m feeling very still. And I think my spaceship knows which way to go, tell me wife I love her very much she knows. [Ground control to Major Tom, your circuit’s dead, there’s something wrong. Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you....] Here am I floating round my tin can, far above the moon, planet earth is blue, and there’s nothing I can do. ♪ -- David Bowie, Space Oddity

Fallen

NEWARK -- Fallen leaf, fallen tree, fallen snow, fallen man

Winter Wonderland

NEWARK -- Grass/snow, green/brown, fallen down/sprouting out, alive/dead, old/new, winter/spring

November Rain

NEWARK -- ♪ Never mind the darkness, we still can find a way. Nothing lasts forever, even cold November rain. ♪ -- Guns N' Roses

Streetscape

NEW YORK -- The Empire State Building is almost three miles away, but appears much closer.

The Wall

NEW YORK -- ♪ All alone, or in twos, the ones who really love you walk up and down outside the wall. Some hand in hand, some gathered together in bands, the bleeding hearts and the artists make their stand. ♪ -- Pink Floyd, The Wall

Happy Thanksgiving

Garfield in front of the Ed Sullivan Theater

NEW YORK -- I've never understood why women love cats. Cats don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat. -- Jay Leno

Playing Heavy Metal

NEW YORK -- Each brass sousaphone weighs over 30 pounds.

Parade Balloon

NEW YORK -- Mr. Potato Head is reflected in the windows of an office building.

Gobble, Gobble

New York

Eat At Joe's

HUDSON ST., Newark, Nov. 10 -- What was St. Joseph's is now decrossed and converted to a Cajun/Creole restaurant. The food was appetizing; the ambience unsettling. In the battle between the Crescent and the Cross for the soul of Newark, demographics dictate victory.

Seagull

Old West

Joyeux Noël (for V.A.)