Signs With Soul. And Whelks. And Paw Paw and Pizza.

Signs! Kind of self-explanatory, I guess. Above - [Maris]'s 1999 shot of a bear crossing sign near Ocala, Florida. Yes - Florida has bears. Fewer every year, of course.

The summit of Mt. Washington, NH - 1998. Still home to the highest wind speed recorded in the history of the planet.

Mystic, Connecticut - 1998. No, we didn't try the pizza. We figured if Julia and Annabeth weren't working, why bother?

[Maris]'s shot of old-timey railroad crossing sign, somewhere in Rhode Island in 2000.

Neon and pandas in Islamorada, Florida - 2000.

The Road Kill Café in York Beach, Maine - 1998. I don't remember anything else that happened, that night.

How can you resist an antique table that was just built? You can't, that's how. Somewhere on US Route 11 in Virginia in 1998.

This crop is all fuzzy because it wasn't the subject of my shot; it turned up in the background and I didn't see it until the prints came back. It's under a bridge in Brunswick, Maryland - or it was, in 1991.

The National Zoo in Washington, DC in 2009. I was shooting quarter-second exposures, hand-held. We're going back next year with a tripod.

Carnivorous Whelks! Owl Head, Maine - 2004.

Paw Paw, West Virginia - 2010. Everyone should visit Paw Paw at least once.

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