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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Sometimes you just walk into a frame


Mollie Fast-Jong, who is part of the Atlantic crew and visits here and there on MSNBC shows at all hours of the day and night was a guest on NPR's Fresh Air yesterday because she's written a book, How to Lose Your Mother, about her life, and her life is interesting because she's the daughter of one-time celebrity writer, Erica Jong, whose Fear and Flying, as well as a number of other things, made her a great favorite with the New York elite (listen to me, sounding like DJT himself). Mollie suffered as a child. Her mother may well have been a fine writer, but she was no fine human being.

But daughter Mollie's new tell-all is scoring big numbers. Does the hoopla make Mollie a good writer? Well, different strokes for different folks: maybe she is, maybe she isn't. What she's got is a story lots of people want to read. She starts way out in front simply because all she has to do is open up about rotten celebrity childhood and America listens.

Some people just got good material. Some people have knock-out stories. Some photo shoots I made were just incredibly good simply because  you were there.  

These pictures, from about this time 19 years ago, 2006, are just amazingly good I think, not because the photographer was an ace but because he stumbled into sheer beauty. I did--post-flood on the Rock River between Rock Valley and Oak Grove--light mist, early sun, winterish trees. I'm only going to show you a half dozen; there are more. 

It doesn't happen often, but this time I got in the car and just drove it into sheer beauty I couldn't miss.






That one's even got geese.


When I got home, I didn't even have to put the memory card in the computer. I knew I had some wonderful shots, not because I was good with a camera but because I'd simply been in the right place at the right time. 

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wonderfully peaceful; something greatly needed in these times.
Thanks for sharing

Anonymous said...

I think you may be underestimating your eye and a good camera, but the subject did cooperate - especially the geese. Wonderful!

June said...

These photos shimmer. And bring me peace. Thanks for the wonder here.