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Still Photographs

I came across a fantastic still photography website…”American Still“. The photographs, taken by John Lucas, are amazing, and bring to the surface an interesting and educational perspective of the USA and its inhabitants.

From categories such as “the flag”, to “places”, to “protests”, “festivals”, and “people”, the images evoke an immediate emotional response from the viewer.

If you want to learn more, I suggest you visit, here.

While at Work…

One can easily prepare chicken soup while at work.

Get out your crockpot, and if you don’t like scrubbing the crockpot after the soup has cooked, add a crockpot liner (a wonderful invention). Add a whole chicken, or if you prefer white meat only, add enough chicken breasts (with our without skin…according to your own dietary needs) for the people who will be eating the meal. Add enough cubed potatoes, carrots, celery, onion, and other vegetables of your choice (I like to add fresh green beans). Add spices to taste. Add enough liquid to cover your chicken, and then some more, for the amount of soup broth you desire, whether it be water with cubes of broth, canned/boxed chicken or vegetable broth, or another broth form of your choice. As an alternative, I often add small bow tie pasta noodles or small shell pasta noodles to the soup (bow tie noodles shown below), instead of potatoes, .

Set the crockpot timer, and there you go! When you arrive home from work, the aroma of food for the soul will fill your kitchen. Your chicken soup will be ready to eat (other than possibly shredding/cutting the chicken).

Serve with rolls, biscuits or bread. Adding matzoh balls or dumplings to the soup is also a great idea, if you have the time when you get home, if not, not to worry, the soup itself is more than enough, and a healthy meal, in addition.

Jerry Schatzberg and Bob Dylan

Jerry Schatzberg is a photographer and he is also a film director. His cover photograph of Bob Dylan on Dylan’s 1966 Blonde to Blonde album is one of Schatzberg’s well-known photographs.

While browsing online, earlier I discovered this interview between Alex Kasriel and Schatzberg. For an interesting read, and look through the window of time, and Schatzberg’s relationship with Bob Dylan, read this article.

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Winter Day

Winter is upon us, as the air swirls with cold. Still, one can bundle up, layer yourself with clothes, and walk outside to see some of winter’s beauty.

The bare branches on the trees can have their own beauty, against the sky.

Leaves cling to the branches, not quite ready to drop off, as autumn is ending, and winter will soon begin. Look around and about, you will see nature’s beauty everywhere, even in the most simple of forms.

Girl in Dorothea Lange Photo

Katherine McIntosh is one of the girls in Dorothea Lange’s photograph of a female migrant worker and her two children. She “is the girl to the left of her mother when you look at the photograph”.

Lange’s photography, depicting the extreme harshness and poverty of life and families during the U.S. depression era are lasting images, and at least one of her photographs are recognizable by most of us. Her documentation is of extreme historical value.

To read the article on the girl from the depression era, visit this site. The story is fascinating, and you will be able to see a current photograph of Katherine McIntosh within the article.