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So how was your eclipse? Was it everything you hoped it would be? Mine never showed up, but it was great just the same. Continue reading “Eclipsed”

For Wilshire Baptist Church

Riding from Chicago O’Hare International Airport toward downtown I struck up a conversation with Vandell Cobb, my Uber driver, and learned that he had been a globe-hopping fashion and news photographer in his earlier days. I know enough about photography from my own career that we were able to cover a lot of topics in our 45 minutes together – including the huge changes from film and print publications to digital files and web-based media. Continue reading “True, Beautiful Light”

For Wilshire Baptist Church

Rose rosette. Have you heard of it? Have you seen it? Sounds lovely, but it’s not lovely at all. It’s a parasitic disease spread by tiny mites that is knocking out knock out roses all across the country. It was first seen in knock out roses in Kentucky in 2009, and the sad irony is that as knock out roses have become wildly popular for their resistance to disease, their planting from coast to coast has helped spread the one disease that it can’t resist. Continue reading “Knocked Out”