Joearf’s Thoughts

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Getting to Know You…

Three weeks ago I got home to find a package at my door. I wasn’t too excited: we’ve all been experiencing a year of random packages showing up almost every day with stuff you ordered who knows when, while you were thinking god knows what, drinking scotch in the dark and surfing the internet (or…
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Jim – a Sad Sequel

My last post was about my friend, Jim, who didn’t like being photographed. Jim died unexpectedly in his sleep yesterday morning. We all say ‘unexpectedly’ about a friend’s death, but this truly was. We had lunch at our favorite coffee shop the afternoon before and had been out later that night for our usual Thursday…
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Jim Hates Being Photographed – That Don’t Bother Me None, Tho

One thing that’s happened this past year has been the great reduction of my social circle. It was never big to begin with – a group of women I usually sat with for morning coffee during the week, a bunch of regulars I would see and talk to at various pubs and restaurants, a couple…
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Snow Bounding

Monday we had a large snowfall here in southern Connecticut – the largest in five years. By some reports we got 14 inches, by all we got no less than 12. Not a lot by some standards, but certainly more than we’ve become accustomed to here. Around 3PM, snow still falling heavily, wind gusting to…
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Shooting While Doing Shots

Perhaps its something I need to see someone about, but I can’t seem to stop myself from taking pictures. Everywhere I go, I look at people and things from the perspective of whether or not I could make a good picture of them. I’ll be in the middle of a conversation, something will catch my…
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What Do You Do When it’s Too Cold to Go Out to Shoot?

At 29°F, I thought yesterday was cold. I was wrong, this morning I woke up to 14°and the promise of a high of 19. So, yesterday I was too much of a wimp, but today I’m too pragmatic to go walking around taking pictures. (I know, I know: 19 is practically balmy in certain parts…
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Morning at Greenwich Point

Greenwich Point is it’s official name, but almost everyone I know calls it Tod’s Point or, simply, Tod’s. Through the years it has been called by several names: Prior to 1640 it was known as Monakawaye. Some time after 1640 it became Elizabeth’s Neck – that name coming from Elizabeth Feaks one of the first…
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Pomerance Reserve, Cos Cob, Connecticut

Originally the property of Ernest Seton, one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America, the Town of Greenwich (Connecticut, USA) acquired this 100+ acre property in 2002 and developed it into a public park with a handful of trails through woods and ruins of the old mansion and buildings. It is almost…
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Postcards from Brooklyn

Saturday my daughter passed along an invitation from her boyfriend for me to come down to Brooklyn and ‘hang out.’ She said he was eager to show off his new white Negroni recipe. If you keep reading you’ll find neither the recipe nor any pictures of the drink here, but I will tell you that…
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Clickbait

Yesterday I saw one of those clickbait posts promising to shock me with what 10 kids said about what love means. Decided to put something like that together for one of my rare text posts:We asked ten singers to tell us how they feel about love. Their answers will shock (SHOCK!) you.’ and here’s what…
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