Veterans Day

 

On this Veterans Day I will pause photos from Southwest Florida and show one from two years ago in the Fox Point neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island.

Red Roof

 

Another interesting house, this time with red barrel tiles on the roof.

Yellow and White

 

A very pretty house.  And I like the details on the gate.

Saint Michael

 

Saint Michael is a handsome Catholic church on Seagate, a street in Naples' Park Shore neighborhood.

I'm not Catholic, but I admire the architecture of well-designed churches, whether modern or classical.

And my favorite feature of Christian churches is stained glass.  Saint Michael has very fine stained glass.  Most of it is contemporary, but this more classical window is the one that I spent time admiring.

Too Big

 

An anhinga tried and it tried, but the fish was just too big for it.  

Eventually it dropped the fish and stared at it with regret.

Fountain

 

Collier County Library, Headquarters Branch.

Olga

 I recently got a new iPhone 13 Pro Max, which has improved camera functions, so I went to the Apple Store for a lesson.  Olga sat next to me.

Olga came to the United States with a two year old daughter 21 years ago.  

She is now a quite successful Naples realtor.

  When the lesson was over, she agreed to pose for me.

  There were no good backgrounds available in the Apple Store, so I photographed Olga using the camera's Portrait mode.  These three images are all the same, edited with the variations in Portrait mode that lets me blank out the background either to white or black.