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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...

Trstená 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 Trstená. We go there every time we visit family in Poland. I love Trstená because unlike much of Central Europe, it seems frozen in time....

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...
Rainy Day

Rainy Day

It was supposed to rain all day today. It was also supposed to be a day off school today, which would have made the rain seem particularly dreary as we would probably have gone out and done...

Bonfire

Bonfire

Today, after all their school work, my kids picked up all the branches that had fallen in our backyard. We have a lot of trees back there -- oaks, poplars, and sadly, a fair number of sweetgum...

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....

Cancer Box

Cancer Box

Glass menageries for smokers.