Monday, March 30, 2009

Climbing over a landslide in the rainforest









The trail we chose was scarred by landslide after landslide; here Juniper has climbed up to regain the trail all by herself [full post on this hike soon].


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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Wild Impatiens, South El Yunque





Just a few days ago we were staying in a house on the southern slopes of El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico, and we went for a twelve-mile hike through the jungle that really deserves its own post. We didn't see another hiker all day. The kid didn't walk much, but she did enjoy making her way through this sea of pink impatiens.

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Monday, March 23, 2009

La Bombonera in Old San Juan






We stumbled upon La Bombonera in San Francisco Street with about forty-five minutes before we had to leave for our flight and we were looking desperately for something to eat. The place has been in operation since 1902 and apparently it's in all the tourist books as an "authentic" place where locals eat. We had no idea. It was a great place to enjoy our last meal in Puerto Rico (miraculously nothing was FRIED).

The most awesome thing about this place: the 1898 coffee machine, originally built in Havana, in which they brew their own brand of coffee.


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Friday, March 20, 2009

Piragua Vendor, Miramar





We arrived in San Juan at 1:00 a.m. and headed straight to our hotel in Miramar, while the kids slept I went out desperate for food looking like such a schlub around the young Puerto Ricans eating at upscale restaurants and generally looking beautiful. The next morning while the baby napped I walked with Juniper all the way to Old San Juan and back. This was the first photograph I took in Puerto Rico, early that morning on Ave. Ponce de Leon in Miramar.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Gram at Thirteen Months





The fact that this kid has been able to venture outside again has suddenly turned him into the happiest boy in the history of the universe.


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Friday, March 13, 2009

Unfinished






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Thursday, March 12, 2009





Factory, hawk. East-side Detroit.

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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

The yardbus





I like to think that schoolbus is there in case the whole gang needs to make a quick escape from the old compound, and that it is equipped with flamethrowers, tire-piercing spikes, deflector shields, and a cow catcher.

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Monday, March 9, 2009

More ballet dancing





I'll go along with this ballet thing until the day she brings home a boy named Boris who's got the whole Barishnacock thing going on.

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Friday, March 6, 2009

Ballet is Okay





I took my daughter to the matinee ballet the other day at the Opera House. We walked there. In blue jeans and purple overalls we were definitely in the tiaraless minority. So when we got home, she naturally wanted to put on her fancy clothes, her mermaid crown, and ballet dance around the living room.

Luckily her mother knows all the ballet moves and their French names.

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Thursday, March 5, 2009

Homeless Guys With Baby Strollers




Maybe one day Greg from Daddytypes will let me be his Detroit correspondent and I'll write about the kinds of strollers our local homeless guys use to cart around all their stuff: "Local transient pushes Graco Literider to his underpass shanty." We could call it "What Not to Push" and when I finally get the prizewinning shot of the hobo pushing a Bugaboo Frog filled with stolen copper wires to the scrapyard, the yuppies will all rush out to buy Orbits.

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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Pink car wash





At this point we know every building in the city of Detroit that is painted pink. She's four now. When will the tyranny of pink end?

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Monday, March 2, 2009

Snow pants





For some reason, this pair of Size 5 snow pants in the middle of one hallway was one of the most depressing things I saw in the entire vacant school.

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