Photography – Pursuits :Elizabeth Thomsen

Smiley Tree Face

I don’t know who created the smiley face on the cut limb of a big old tree in my town,

I subscribe to a the free PhotoJojo Time Capsule service that sends me an e-mail message every two weeks with

Snow all day yesterday, followed by rain all night, and the unsurprising result was a street full of slush.

It’s a rainy Sunday. This morning I went out for breakfast and parked in front of the Beverly Public Library.

“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.” [Detail from Portrait of Eudora Welty by Mildred Nungester Wolfe at

Oh, how I longed for the Polaroid Swinger! I was the target demographic for this breezy 1965 television commercial, which

These are not old family pictures — not my family pictures, anyway. They were the dummy pictures in a double

I stopped in Middleton yesterday to take some pictures of the Old Town Hall, an 1848 building, expanded in 1878,

This grave marker is in the cemetery in Wenham, Massachusetts. I don’t know whose mother this is. The stone is