I finally got around to posting a page of photos from my September visit to France. Click here.

From our trip to West Virginia two weeks ago… Bret has posted his photos, including this picture of a bear!



Gerritt (the soon-to-be-groom) and friends listen to a Virginia Tech game on satellite radio outside a cabin, Blackwater Falls State Park, Davis, West Virginia.


Last week I stood barefoot on the soft sands of Omaha Beach in Normandy, France. I tried to match the angle of Robert Capa’s famous photograph of the soldier emerging from the waves during the first wave of the 1944 invasion. I consider myself cynical about war, not a war history buff, but while in Paris I felt compelled to take a day trip to tour the D-Day battlefields. I found it powerfully moving. Imagine: We fought because we had to.

Expired film, cheap plastic camera, rusty Worlds Fair site, abandoned parkway, really bad scans:



