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I stumbled upon Jacob Bailey, aged 59 years and five months when he died in 1879, buried at land’s end in a tiny coastal Maine...

Show me something rusty, and I’m there. (With camera.) Pearls Before Lobster by Jann Alexander © 2014 Let me hasten to add: Rust is...

Deco Dazzle by Jann Alexander ©2012 It’s impossible for me to resist the marquee of an old movie palace. They’re relics of an era when...

Contrast on the Wharf by Jann Alexander © 2014 On a Harpswell wharf on the Casco Bay in Maine, the  contrast  between old traps and new...

Snowed Under in Seco by Jann Alexander ©2013 Photography excels at capturing contrasts—between dark and light, shadow and bright, death...

Alone Along the Highway by Jann Alexander ©2014 Lost: Johnny A. Lucero. Found: A roadside grave along the highway, New Mexico. Not...

Serendipity at the Lobster Shack by Jann Alexander © 2014 “It’s a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you...

Skyrocket Your Creativity   Jann Alexander © 2014 “ It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease...

Patience on the Pier by Jann Alexander © 2014.jpg “The greatest art is to sit, and wait, and let it come.” —Yogi Bhajan She was still,...

“My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.” ―  Anaïs Nin Anais Nin by Elsa Dorfman , c. 1970s Though she...

Are you feeling the drug’s side effects? Generating a constant flow of (occasionally wacky) ideas? Experimenting with new media and new...

Pampas Waves by Jann Alexander © 2014 Nature is rarely still. Witness the waves of pampas grass, always  on the move  thanks to a...

Not So Coy by Jann Alexander © 2014 There’s nothing too coy about koi. Perhaps because they’re not much more than common...

Austin in Lights by Jann Alexander © 2014 Blue. Austin, Texas is so damn blue in spring. It’s Austin’s most consistent feature most of...

When it’s ready to throw up its March bloom, the Spanish Dagger’s magnificent flower always comes out on top. The thick-leaf yucca...

A Pot of Gold in the Badlands by Jann Alexander © 2012 As if the Badlands in South Dakota aren’t breathtaking enough, a rainbow...

Terlingua Ghosts by Jann Alexander © 2012 The small town of Terlingua, Texas, near the Mexico border, is a former cinnabar-mining...

Flower Child on the Porch by Jann Alexander © 2008 “Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived . . . Tidiness makes me think of...

Mayan Messenger by Jann Alexander © 2012  You can climb to the top of a distant civilization in Tecoh, a tiny Yucatán town whose...

At first glance, a shelfie is a generous way to share your library of ideas instead of your silly selfie face. But at worst, shelfies...