My baby brother...

As of November 2nd, my baby brother, Rob, is officially married. His wife, Andrea, is a wonderful woman and a perfect match for him. Not surprising, they were high school sweethearts. I took this photo during the "bedekin" (jewish unveiling) ceremony.

Obama!

I was amazed to see people literally dancing in the streets of New York City upon hearing the news of Obama's historic victory in his run for President of the Untied States. I never thought that I would see the day when a massive crowd in Union Square would spontaneously erupt in our National Anthem and "America the Beautiful". It was a wonderful and beautiful night.

To see more of my photos from that night.

Birthday's

My birthday just passed and it got me thinking of my mother and this photo that I took on her birthday blowing out the candles on her cake.

Corliss & Peter

I shot this photo over the weekend of Corliss and her boyfriend Peter in Prospect Park Brooklyn. Taken with a digital camera and converted to black and white.

School Time

My sister started back to work last week as a 6th grade science teacher in Atlanta Georgia. This photo is of her in her classroom from last school year, hopefully her desk is not that messy yet this year.

Spring Break in Canada, Family Music

On our way back from Montreal to New York we stayed with my cousin Audrey and her husband Mark. Audrey is my grandfather's sister's daughter. I should add that I really like my Canadian family and I only wish that we got to see them more often. Some of my fondest childhood memories were in Montreal with my family up there.

In any case, Mark plays guitar in a band and that night was the night that his band practiced at their house. So we got to enjoy some more music that made me think I was back down in Georgia. Strange to hear all that country sounding music so far north. And for that matter, the Sugar Shack we went do made some amazing pork rinds's.

Also, Audrey took us for a tour of some of the buildings that my great grandfather used to own as well as a couple that he built. And we got to go to a bagel shop to buy some Montreal Bagels. As New Yorkers, it is hard to enjoy a bagel outside of New York, but Montreal has some amazing bagels. It's difficult to say which place makes them better, but we did buy 24 bagels to bring home to New York.

Spring Break in Canada, The Sugar Shack

On our way back to Montreal we stopped at Chez Dany, a sugar shack. We were not sure what we should expect there, but told we had to have a meal at a sugar shack. Upon arrival we were seated and fed a tasty all you can eat meal beginning with a French Pea soup and fried pork skin, then moved on to ham, meat pie, and an omelet, finishing off with a desert of pancakes with maple syrup and snow taffy outside. When the 5 tour buses arrived the band began to play, which reminded me of the country in Georgia, just without the snow.