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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?
In the Backyard

In the Backyard

When everyone's work is done, what else could we do but go shoot the bb gun in the backyard?

Winter Church

Winter Church

This is the church in which my wife and I were married. I took this picture Christmas Eve/Christmas Day at about two in the morning. We'd gone to midnight Mass, returned to her parents' home, and...

Lipniczanka

Lipniczanka

The small river that runs through Lipnica Wielka.

New Year’s Day, 2003

New Year’s Day, 2003

My wife and I spent New Year's 2003 in Slovakia with some friends. We rented a cabin on the shores of Lake Orava, which was formed in the 1950s when the Slovak government built a hydroelectric dam,...

Lipnica Wielka, Winter 2001

Lipnica Wielka, Winter 2001

The village where I lived and worked in southern Poland. The school is the large white building at the right of the picture.

Babia Gora

Babia Gora

I lived in a small village at the base of this mountain for seven years. In some ways, it was the most magical adventure of my life.

Christmas 2019

Christmas 2019

For our family, as a half-Polish family (perhaps three-quarter-Polish family since I lived there so long), the highlight of the entire year is always the Wigilia (pronounced "Vee-gee-lee-a") dinner....

Musevisa

Musevisa

Musevisa, a Norwegian carol by Alf Prøysen from the late 1940s.

14 Years Ago

14 Years Ago

Thoughts about Thanksgiving the year before my current students were born.