May Free Desktop Calendar

April showers bring May flowers. Except that here in Stuttgart we’re way ahead of that. The trees have already turned green and let their petals flutter to the ground. The weather has been stunning. Sunny almost every day and maybe a little rain shower in the...

Piepsen, Quite the Traveler

Piepsen has some catching up to do. He’s been quite a few places and wanted to update everyone. If you want to see his other photos, just click the Mouse book above.Let’s go backward and start with Rome. He really thought Rome was great, especially all of...

Portraits of the Perino Family

Last Sunday I got to photograph a beautiful family at the zoo. The Perino family is made up of parents and two kiddos and another one on the way. I was so excited just to get back into portraits, these are the first I’ve done in Germany. Really a photogenic...

Caffeine – Or in other words “hyper juice”

I have a dilemma that maybe you can help me with. When I drink just one cup of coffee in the morning I end up completely jittery and over-hyper about an hour after. So yesterday I tried to go without. That caused a three-hour nap by four o’clock in the...

Books Read in 2010

Another installment of what I read in 2010. I rate on a scale of 1-5.The Nature of Monsters by Clare Clark – 2I was really hoping for more from this book. It takes an intriguing idea (an 18th-century apothecary obsessed with deformities) and just bored me. There...