Bon Voyage

Tomorrow morning my fellow Fulbright-Hays scholars will leave the University of Wisconsin and fly to Delhi.

I want to take this opportunity to wish you all a 

Bon Voyage!!!

*applause*

My Journey Has Ended

Mom has always been very supportive and proud of my work.
She has been very excited by my upcoming journey to India.

But these past two days have been nothing less than a nightmare:

My mother has suddenly fallen gravely ill to a cancer that went undetected for too long.

Today, as Mom lies in her hospital bed, I've decided I can not make my journey to India.
Instead, it's now my turn to support my mother, and help her along with her sad and scary journey with cancer.

If you want to follow my Fulbright-Hays colleagues on their trip, you can view their blog here. I fully intend to learn from them, and feel their thrill, at least vicariously, by reading their upcoming blog posts. I hope you will too.

Candid Camera

Since 1983 I've traveled everywhere with my beloved Canon AE1. I could use that camera with my eyes shut, that's how comfortable I was with it.

It's with great regret my old Canon is now retired, stowed away in my top drawer (why can't I be the one to retire??) 

The Canon still works, but the lure of digital photography has finally won me over.

Upon good advice from my BFF Crone and Bear It, I purchased a Nikon 3000D. It's a bit bigger than the Canon, yet weighs less.

The Nikon is Idiot-Proof. This means I should be able to handle it.

Thank you for visiting my blog, and Namaste!

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.
- Elliott Erwitt