Cycling at Harold Parker State Park

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. ~Ernest Hemingway

Hitting out of the Trap

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.
- Bobby Jones

Children watch Kenda, the 600 lb Polar Bear Swim in the pool at the EcoTarium Museum in Worcester MA

Born on December 1, 1983, Kenda is the only surviving daughter of Ursa Minor and Ursa Major. While Kenda is not considered old for a bear in captivity, she would be if she were living in the wild. In the wild females often do not live more than 20-25 years.

Kenda's mother, Ursa Minor, died in July 2001 at the age of 36, one of the oldest captive polar bears. Ursa Major, Kenda's father, passed away at the Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Massachusetts in 2000.

Safe at Second

Jeff Bailey #55 of the Boston Red Sox, slides safe into 2nd base at Sunday's afternoon game againts the Toronto Blue Jays in Boston. Final score was Toronto 15, Boston 4.

The Witches Cup 2008. Salem MA

The Witches Cup, Salem's cycling race, returned to Salem Common on August 13 after a successful rebirth of the historic race in 2007.

The Witches Cup is a criterium -- a short fast bicycle race requiring a mix of power, speed and technical skills. Those skills include the ability to corner rapidly and sharply, all while riding safely with a large group on a short circuit, requiring exceptional fitness to attack other riders and repeatedly accelerate around corners. These races are 45-60 minutes of very fast cycling, with racers averaging 25-35 mph and reaching speeds of up to 45 mph during sprints and attacks.

The Art of Hula Hooping

It's hard to believe in an age of video games and whiz-bang gadgets, but the Hula Hoop once was the hippest toy around.

The hoopla began 50 years ago (June 19, 1958) when entrepreneurs Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin sought a trademark for a plastic cylinder based on a similar toy that had enjoyed modest success in Australia's school yards.

Wham-O, the company founded by Knerr and Melin, sold more than 100 million Hula Hoops — at a suggested retail price of $1.98 apiece — after just a year on the U.S. market. That was more than one Hula Hoop for every two Americans at the time.

James Montgomery Blues Band Perform at Newburyport's Yankee Homecoming 2008

Beatle Juice Band Rock the House at Newburyport's 2008 Yankee Homecoming

I have been published

This is a photo of my first Newspaper photo spread. My photos of a local road race in Danvers Ma were published in The Danvers Herald. It was so fun to see my photos and my name in my home town newspaper..

Thanks everyone for all your support and encouragement.

Jolie's Bad Apple

"Mom,I think there is something wrong with this apple"!

Jolie's Green Apple

An apple a day keeps the Doctor away.

Mother's Love

The best conversations with mothers always take place in silence, when only the heart speaks. ~Carrie Latet

Runners participate in the June 2008 Danvers Family Festival Road Race

“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.”

~Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism

I am published in my local paper...all photos in article are mine. Take a peek. www.wickedlocal.com/danvers/sports/adult_leagues/x2043506...

Weddding Day

“A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. What do you mean? responded her mother. Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another.”

Camerist

“The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking” Brooks Atkinson

Despair

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.”
~ Henri Nouwen

The Hawk vs the Frog