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Various ventures into Mr. Scott’s mind.

Warszawa Centralna

Looking at some old pictures, I found a shot of Warszawa Centralna train station from about 2002. It was an exterior night shot, and there was little indication of what the station looked like inside. What it looks like now is vaguely similar, but there have been so...

Happy Thanksgiving 2023

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Counselors Behind the Line

Our school counselors served Thanksgiving lunch today. They look snazzy in their hairnets, don't they?
19

19

Today, my wife and I celebrate our nineteenth wedding anniversary. I'm not quite sure how she's done it, but I'm grateful she's put up with me for that long.

Blueberries

Blueberries

We have eight blueberry bushes at the end of our driveway. They produce a lot of blueberries. It's always a sign that summer break has begun.

Warsaw, 1985

Warsaw, 1985

I first arrived in Warsaw eleven years after this photo was taken. The focus of the shot is the Palac Kultury i Nauki ("The Palace of Culture and Science"), a building that was a "gift" from Joseph...

Decorating

Decorating

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Dworzec

Dworzec

I gave my students an article of the week about the Kaliningrad House of the Soviets, an administrative building constructed during the Soviet era but never occupied because of structural issues....

Easter Afternoon, 2003

Easter Afternoon, 2003

My mother-in-law, her mother-in-law (my father's-in-law mother, i.e., my wife's grandmother), and my wife's cousin were having cakes and juice on the afternoon of Easter Sunday in 2003. It was a...

Discovery

Discovery

Starting poetry with eighth graders

The Church and the Cow

The Church and the Cow

My wife grew up in a very rural part of southern Poland. Very rural. This is an image from our 2017 visit.

Drabinki

Drabinki

When my wife and I were dating, I would often spend the afternoon with her Sundays in her home village of Jablonka (which means "little apple tree" in Polish). We'd have lunch with her family (often...