April Showers Bring May Flowers

a brief photo album of the last month or so

May 19, 2025

If I walk by an apartment or house and the blinds are open, I will look in. In some ways, that’s what it feels like people’s photo round ups are—a look behind the curtain. So, consider my blinds open. (…wait.) Uh, consider this a little peek at my last month or so.

Sometimes, I make collages that highly amuse…myself.

photo of a collage made on pages of the New York Almanac that shows a bird with an open beak and the words "be free" above it and a cartoon person holding a net on the opposite page with the word "no" above them

This is what you get for waking up in Vegas.

a photo collage of four photos taken in vegas starting in the upper left: a photo of the canal and painted blue sky with white clouds in the Venetian hotel, a photo of the author in a black short sleeved top, dark denim wide-leg jeans, white slip ons pointing at a big sign of a cowboy on Fremont Street, a photo of the author in a mustard yellow jumpsuit smiling and standing in front of a greek style statue of a goddess in Caesar's Palace, a photo of a bright purple drink garnished with a lemon and a flower

Set out warm laundry and Rutherford will come.

a large orange cat curled up in a blue plastic laundry basket on top of a pile of warm clothes

I’m not embarrassed to tell you that I have no idea how long I had this t-shirt on backwards for.

photo of the author taken in the mirror of the bathroom showing her wearing a fleetwood mac t-shirt backwards

Lady Liberty is a little hazy these days.

the Statue of Liberty in the distance with gray hazy sky in the background and turbulent river water in the foreground

Maybe she’s a secret agent. Or maybe she’s just working a job where she’s got to know when it’s time for Rah-Rah-Rasputin.

the author looking at the camera while wearing a clear plastic ear piece standing in front of shrubs and greenery

There are worse things to look at.

looking from Governors Island through shrubs and tall trees in the foreground and the sun reflecting off sky scrapers in lower manhattan as the sun sets in the background

Now you see me…

a photo from the 1860s of a woman in aristocratic dress and teased, curly hair holding an ornate frame to her eye while she looks directly at the camera — Scherzo di Follia (Person in Photograph: Countess Virginia Oldoini Verasis di Castiglione), Pierre-Louis Pierson: 1863–66, printed 1940s - The Met Open Access

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