Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
I’ve posted earlier on the Tompkins Corners Cultural Center. Their latest event was a performance of the David Amran Quintet. The music was great and Mr. Amram, acting as host, was informative and amusing. The weather was good and on a clear, cool evening a great time was had by all. And yes even though this was billed as a quintet there were only four of them. Apparently the fifth member was indisposed.
My brother-in-law Vicente has been visiting us and we decided to take him for lunch at the Depot in Cold Spring. As we were sitting there I heard the roar of an engine and saw this colorful car reverse into a parking space and rushed over to take some pictures of it.
I don’t really know what it is other than that it’s some kind of Ford. That much at least was emblazoned on the trunk. I’m not at all sure what model though. After some web browsing it seems to me that it’s a 1954 model – either a Crestline, a Customline, or a Mainline. It’s a bit hard to tell (at least for me) with the hood having been removed to accomodate the large piece of machinery (I don’t know enough to know what it is) in the pictures. It’s certainly a spectacular piece of technology though.
One of the comparatively rare (because I find it difficult to get a decent picture of her) pictures of our cat, Gypsy. She was sitting on the table right next to where I was working on the computer when some thing outside attracted her attention. Luckily I had a camera right next to the computer.
Taken one evening on the waterfront in Ossining, NY.
Our family has recently been affected by tragedy. My wife’s niece Eve (seen above on the left with my wife and Eve’s son, now 11) passed away unexpectedly and rather mysteriously at her son’s baseball game. It seems that she suffered a severe allergic reaction to something, but nobody knows what. This led to heart and respiratory failure, which caused a lack of oxygen to the brain and massive brain damage. She passed away today after being removed from the ventilator. She was only in her mid 40s.
She was one of the sweetest people I’ve ever met. She had a lovely smile and was always eager to help others. She’s one of the few people I’ve met who seemed to be genuinely good. She was particularly close to our two girls having grown up in same building. Needless to say they, like us, are devastated.
I believe some ancient greek said “Those whom the gods love die young”, which seems entirely correct in this case.
RIP Eve.