At the Live Free or Die Café...

... think of all the alternatives.

At the Swan Lake Café...

... you were right. Those really were swans out there on icy Lake Mendota this afternoon.

At the Winter Light Café...

... I can't tell you what we did.

Photo taken, just now, without getting up from my desk.

ADDED: Dialogue: MEADE: Did you get video? ME: No, stills work better. MEADE: It was blinking. ME: It could have been winking. Birds in prof...

At the Careful Composter Café...

... be green... and orange.

Somehow the Google mind has arrived at a more appropriate portrait for me...

... when you search for my name . For the longest time they had a photo I'd done with an exaggerated expression pretending to have time ...

"Rehearsals sap my pep... tell me what I have to do and I'll do it."

Said the actress Clara Bow (in 1929), who did it like this: ... in "Kittens" (1926). And this: ... in "Wings" (1927), w...

Manhattan...

... panorama.

Can you think of a new way to do some photo portraits?

Here 's one that's pretty cool. The apt title of the photo set is "Blow Job." (Safe for work!) By the same artist — Tadao ...

"Some time ago a stranger asked me to make his portrait... So I did. I sent him the image and I never heard back from him again since that moment."

"Not long ago I saw one painting and I felt that it was very familiar to me. And then I got it — It was a copy of my photo! I did a lit...

"Humans need straight lines, nature doesn't. Indecisive river and orderly farmers, central Asia."

Tweeting photos from space.

At the Writer's Café...

... why is there no 1 here?

At the Pink Ice Café...

... be cool.

At the Icicle Café...

... we're all dammed.

Lake Mendota, yesterday.

Will this thing ever freeze all the way?

At the Morning Ski Café...

... you'd better get out there before it melts.

Rising before dawn...

... to see this ... ... before this:

At the Ski Trail Café...

... the paths are well worn.

"I've been there. Drunk, looking for a snack, couldn't get the pickle jar open."

Top comment at the YouTube video "Incredible footage of BBC cameraman and hungry polar bear."

A Late Night Café...

... where you can talk until dawn.