A few photos from a trip to Taormina, Sicily. It was early March and nearly desolate of tourists: perfect. Vegetation on the way to the...

The NYSL has old fashioned stacks, and up on Stack 11, I had been peering through books about railroad station design (alas, I did not...

Barcelona, 2008. For a while, I collected photos of manhole covers during my travels. A manhole cover that says “Acquedotto” looks way...

Siracusa. RL Fifield, 2007. I conjure Siracusa, and bite my lip. It’s wonderful. Layers of civilization created this hauntingly beautiful...

International travel was not a priority when I was a child. There were visits to battlefields in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia,...