New England Autumn

I went back to New England recently to visit my family. Here's a shot I got in Massachusetts. I think it was in the town of Littleton.

The New England Countryside

I got a shot of the Massachusetts countryside outside a small store that sold organic veges and fruits.

An Old New England Cemetery

In keeping with SteveR's theme, I'm posting an image I took from a cemetery in Concord, MA last July. It contains such noted personalities as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Louisa May Alcott. (It also had a lot of mosquitoes!)

Puttin' On The Ritz...

The inscription for the elegantly-dressed gentleman pictured here reads

Our beloved father

An honest and righteous man

Reb Moshe Yitzhak

son of Yehezkiel

At the very bottom of the image is inscribed the family name, Black (here phonetically spelled as "Bleck.")

In this cemetery in Woburn, I saw several tombstones from the 1920's and '30s with these little portraits of the deceased. This is something I've never seen in the Baltimore area, except in recent years among Jews who immigrated from the former Soviet Union since the 1970s.

For Eric - Judkins Pond

We were in the Boston area to visit our daughter Leah this past weekend. The weather was spectacular, and we were treated to an early (for us) display of fall colors.

I got up early Sunday morning to get some good light, and was rewarded with this scene in Winchester, the town next to where our motel was.