From the Treetop

One Year Later

Seeds of Wisdom: "Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures." -John F. Kennedy

I know I've been AWOL these last few months. I thought I'd have more time to write once the summer got here, but I ended up spending more time reading in a chair on my deck, instead.

I started this Blog because I wanted to write about my feelings on September 11, 2001 - which I did.

Now here we are on the first anniversary of that terrible day. Once again I am overwhelmed by the enormity of it all. The lives - saved and lost. The stories, sad, hopeful, heroic. The destruction of the seemingly destructable. I mourn the loss of our security and the liberties we often took for granted. And I fear all this saber rattling and war talk.

I have much more to say on that subject, but I'll save those thoughts for another day.

Going on the wisdom that a picture is worth a thousand words, I decided to share my pictures. These are two series of pictures that I took. The first were taken in September of 1992 - ten years ago. They were taken of the NY skyline from the boat that goes to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty.

I took the second set of pictures this past June from the deck of the Carnival cruise ship, Triumph. Without further ado ... you can find them here.