Harvest time...

the "Flying Zambini's" Yard Sale

two of my favorite things are "found" snapshots and street photos.  Here, they collide in a recent series of recombinant absurdity...

"QUIRKBALL PIX"

from the "quirkball" file of things observed in recent months ...

SAN GENNARO FESTIVAL, LITTLE ITALY

can't help it, but  I've always been drawn to the sights, smells and sheer hoopla and weirdness of carnivals.  In NYC, the closest we come is the annual "fried dough" festival better known as San Gennaro in Little Italy, now in it's 84th year. I stumbled across the opening ceremony this past week, and after briefly watching six grown men grapple with the intestinal challenges of a cannoli eating contest, and being mesmerized by some stellar signage, I got swept up in the spirit ...

QUIET MOMENTS IN A BUSY CITY ...

LABOR DAY

in honor of Labor Day, and hard working people everywhere ...

STREET SIGNAGE BY LEONARD, UNION CITY, NJ.

Last week, I ventured over to Union City NJ. for a friends birthday.  I returned the next day to do some bike explorations and came across a whole cache of great work in one of my favorite categories, hand painted signage.  All of these were done by a local artist who signed 

his work, "Leonard".  Hats off to him!

People Pix

 from the series of 8 million stories in the Naked City .... I am fascinated by the seemingly

 infinite variety of juxtaposition possibilities that occur with the city as graphic backdrop ...

OUR ANIMAL FRIENDS