Registration is open for my winter term class on Mike Nichols & Elaine May at Norwalk Community College. We’ll cover their revolutionary work as a comedy team and their subsequent careers as major film directors. Five Thursdays starting 1/15. Visit lifetimelearners.org

BOTD: Val Kilmer

Chester Station on a December night along the Old Valley Road.

Winter sky 🌳🍂 #thicktrunktuesday #trees #woodland #treeclub

The Santa Fe F3A 19-L diesel passenger locomotive hangs over Aliso Street after running off the end of its track at Union Station. January 25, 1948, Los Angeles California. #train #accidents #oldtime

Tonight’s sunset. One of the best I’ve ever seen. Ocean Beach, San Diego, California #SanDiego #sunset #OceanBeach #landscapelovers #surfing

BOTD: Patti Smith

Oak walk 🌳🍂 #trees #woodland #treeclub

A serene scene as two swans came to check me out. #birdoftheday #serenity

High clouds help make for nicer sunrise photography at the beach. Thank you, Mothers Nature! 🙂 #photography #beach #sunrise #landsacape #seascape #canonphotography #photoart #firstlight #earlymorning #ocean #shoreline

BOTD: Jude Law

Covered Bridge #Photography

Winter - Jette Stoltz, Swedish, 1923-2010, oil on canvas

🌳🍁🍂 #trees #woodland #treeclub

Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

BOTD Gérard Depardieu MCCT5 5)Welcome to NY (Ferrara) 4)Vincent, François, Paul... (Sautet) 3)American Uncle (Resnais) 2)Bellamy (Chabrol) 1)Police (Pialat) +D Quartier Latin More: @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/rich... @wendyide.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2022/ju...

R.I.P. Brigitte Bardot

Pacific Beach, San Diego, California #sandiego #sdca #pacificbeach #beach #surfing #sunset #sunsetchasers #ocean #crystalpier #landscapes_lovers #photography

BOTD: Maggie Smith

BOTD: Timothee Chalamet

The calm before the storm?

The day after.

BOTD: Rosemary Woods

The ESB has its Christmas lights on.

BOTD: Justin Trudeau

Merry Christmas!

you could make an anime out of this

Antwerpen Centraal from a hotel bar (2025) photograph by Anne Billson

This is one of our favorites!

I don’t have anything festive for the holiday, so here’s another birch painting I did in 2024. Fog Through The Trees 9”x12” Acrylic on Gesso Board Sold #art #landscape #acrylic #painting #trees #nature #blueskyart

12/24/47: Welles' spectacular The Lady From Shanghai w/OW, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane From Us, via New Oxford Handbook of Am Film Hist: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u... More: @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/filmblo... @geoff-andrew.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/features/lad...

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Home For Christmas - Ray Hendershot, 1988. American, 1931–2019. Watercolor on paper

BOTD: Ricky Martin

BOTD: Chet Baker

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Andrew Newton, Paul, ca. 2008

R.I.P. Chris Rea

The lighthouse is always watching.