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Various ventures into Mr. Scott’s mind.

Cemetery of Memories

The first time I approached the cemetery in Lipnica Wielka was November of 1996, and I headed up for my first experience with All Saints' Day in Poland. I took pictures and made mental notes for my journal: I left my apartment around 4:30 and headed up to the cemetery...
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Trstenรก Supermarket

Just across the border from where I lived in Poland (Lipnica Wielka) and where my wife grew up (Jablonka) is a Slovak town called Trstenรก. We go there every time we visit family in Poland. I love Trstenรก because unlike much of Central Europe, it seems frozen in time....
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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...
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Botany Bay

Botany Bay

Nov 10, 2012

An almost fairy-tale quality to the road that leads to Botany Bay on Edisto.

Esztergom Basilica

Esztergom Basilica

Nov 6, 2012

A view of The Primatial Basilica of the Blessed Virgin Mary Assumed Into Heaven and St Adalbert, the largest building in Hungary and the traditional ecclesiastical seat of Hungary. Believe it or...

Warszawa Centralna

Warszawa Centralna

Nov 4, 2012

Completed in seventies, the Warsaw Central train station is a monument to Socialist Realism in architecture and one of the largest -- if memory serves, the largest -- train station in Central...

Sunset Through the Branches

Sunset Through the Branches

Nov 3, 2012

When one lives in rural Poland, with rolling farmland all around, it's difficult to resist the temptation every single evening to go for a walk.

Pyzowka Landscape

Pyzowka Landscape

Oct 28, 2012

During the same trip, we visited our daughter's godmother, my wife's best, best friend. Once again, we took our daughter's cousin, and together, with my daughter's godmother's daughter, we went for...

Slovakian Walk

Slovakian Walk

Oct 27, 2012

Every time my wife and I take our family back to Poland to visit the grandparents, aunts, uncles, great-aunts, great-uncles, great-grandparents, friends, and acquaintances, we simply must spend at...

Fall Dance Pictures

Fall Dance Pictures

Sep 21, 2012

Pictures from the fall dance -- well, at least the nearly-fall dance -- are available here.

Bike Ride

Bike Ride

Sep 2, 2012

While looking through old pictures, I happened upon this photo from a memorable ride and thought I would share it for those students who have expressed an interest in cycling. This was in 2004, in...