A Perpetual Love Affair

"You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it; and finally a soft sense of possession grows up and your visit becomes a perpetual love affair."

Henry James

Labor Day: The Last Day of Summer

Travelling north out of New York City by train along the Hudson River you discover the small town of Beacon in Dutchess County, where once I watched the last sunset of summer.

Imperator Caesar Divi F. Augustus

She Walks in Beauty

The Caravan

"Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot."

Bruce Chatwin

The Beginning of Atonement

"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."

Walter Benjamin

Gardens at Twilight

"The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above."
Paul Bowles

Kensington Gardens, London