Water Tension

Found: Dew || Arcadia National Park, Maine.

Dew drops hang in a spider web in one morning in Arcadia. The park is amazing and well worth the trip in the off season.

Sweet Color

Found: Baguettes and soda syrup || France.

Colorful syrup bottles somewhere in a shop around Paris, from 35mm positive film scan.

Ditty

Frame of Mind || Leaving Cambridge

Chirping.Birds.Birds? I remember I usually get woken up by ambulance sirens, and I get the queasy feeling that my landlord is taking me for a ride. In the common room, Eugene forgot the lights on. Or not. It's just a rogue ray of sun that found it's way through the clouds, past trees and Victorian houses only to bounce off the white door of the pantry into my eyes. It lasts for only an instant. I make a quick exit and pass a delivery van as head up the street to my car. Tires follow me on the wet pavement. Slowly. Deliberately. This guy is either the worst kidnapper in history or he's just looking for parking. Since this is Cambridge and not Mexico City, it's the latter.

My car's underpowered 125 horses roar and I slide into the surprisingly empty Mass. Ave. The surprise is gone once I get around the bend and I have to cut the guy on my left to avoid a Coke truck delivering syrup in Central Square. Four lines of cars queue up on 2 lanes of road. I can almost smell, through 2 panes of tempered glass, the aftershave of the guy in the car next two me. I turn my head and he mouths "Go tuck yourself" (in?) . He makes no sense. And the traffic gets moving once again.

I make a left on Western Ave, past a row of crimson flags and I blow through a cleverly hidden stop sign. No harm. No foul. No cops. Shortly, after giving a Wendy's Chicken sandwich to the tool guy - or rather the equivalent in U.S. currency - I weave my way through I-90's three lanes and pass underneath of what it must be a sound-proofing engineering marvel - the Washington St. Sheraton.

And so it goes...

Guppy

Found: Shark Diving || Bahamas, WI.

Sharks have an electromagnetic sensor in their noses that helps navigate, so when our chain-link-armor-clad dive master rubbed their noses they went in a trance. However, once he stopped rubbing they got the munchies - and we got the out of there.

The Dark Forest

Found: The path less traveled || Arcadia National Park, Maine.

As you embark upon this journey called life, keep this in mind: 'The path less traveled, is less traveled for a reason.'

Noise

Found: Yellow Cab || Times Square, NYC.

Taken one late summer night. Thought it captures nicely the rush of the city.

13.1M

Found: My stamina || Simsbury, CT

Cristian and I after finishing the Iron Horse half marathon. My time was 2:02 (9:18/mile pace), which (I'm told) is not bad. Of course, my buddy Mike (not pictured) finished in around 1:30, 6th overall, so there is a lot of room for improvement.

Why walk?

Found: The long road home || Montreal, Canada.

Of course, the road is even longer when you can't afford the $6/gallon Canadian gas and all you have is a bike. Taken on a peer near the Molson brewery.