Friday, November 14, 2025

Chinatown wisdom (Weeend Street/Reflections # 251)


Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

“Confucius say: man who take picture of old men better buy them lunch after.”

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Friday, November 7, 2025

Subtle reflections and a familiar face (Weekend Street/Reflections # 250)


 Florence, Italy

“Curious is a good thing to be; it seems to pay some unexpected dividends.” - Iggy Pop

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Friday, October 31, 2025

Anemoia (Weekend Street/Reflections # 249)

 

Vienna, Austria

Sometimes, as I meander the cobblestone alleys of Vienna or the grand boulevards of Paris, a peculiar feeling stirs.

Anemoia — the wistful ache for a time you’ve never known — echoes from another era that somehow feels like home.

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Friday, October 24, 2025

On a bench (Weekend Street/Reflections # 248)


 Newtown, Pennsylvania

"Hey, pal, what are you looking at?" “I may be bald, but in my heart… I’m Fabio in a wind machine.”😉

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Friday, October 17, 2025

Central Cafe (Weekend Street/Reflections # 247)

 

London, England

Probably Mum and daughter night at the Picturehouse Central, but as usual, the smartphones get all the attention.😉


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Friday, October 10, 2025

Il passaggio senza fine (Weekend Street/Reflections # 246)

 

Venice, Italy

The cat stretches, the man disappears, and the photograph remains — a quiet witness to the endless, ordinary acts of daily life.

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Friday, October 3, 2025

Another Day at the Cafe (Weekend Street/Reflections # 245)


 Langhorne, Pennsylvania 

This was a real balancing act. I thought he was going to tip over every time he leaned to his right. Thankfully, I was wrong. 

This was the same cafe as last week's photo. I don't remember which one I took first; both images are at least ten years old.

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Friday, September 26, 2025

At the Cafe (Weekend Street/Reflections # 244)


 Langhorne, Pennsylvania  

The sign on the wall says "laugh". The top left side of the man's newspaper reads, "Creepy clown epidemic unfair to real clowns." That, accompanied by the guy on the TV with a lampshade reflected on his head, made me laugh.

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Friday, September 19, 2025

Blade Runner Vibes (Weekend Street/Reflections # 243)

 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The rain glossed the sidewalk as he ducked under his umbrella, neon glow painting his steps pink and gold. Inside the bakery, the warmth of custard buns and milk tea called out—a fleeting refuge in Philadelphia’s Chinatown, where every doorway felt like a portal to another city, another life, or another world.

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Friday, September 12, 2025

La barbe à papa (Weekend Street/Reflections # 242)

 

Lyon, France

Barbe à papa pour tout le monde.

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Friday, September 5, 2025

Western photo shoot-out (Weekend Street/reflections # 241)

 

Dallas, Texas

I took this picture almost 20 years ago, and I still can't figure out what was going on.😄

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Friday, August 29, 2025

C'est la rentrée (Weekend Street/Reflections # 240)


 Paris, France

"Je suis la galette, la galette
Je suis faites avec le blé ramassé dans le grenier
On m'a mis à refroidir mais j'ai mieux aimé courir
Attrape-moi si tu peux!"

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Friday, August 22, 2025

Watching the game (Weekend Street/Reflections # 239)


 Newport Beach, California

I wonder if their team won?

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Friday, August 15, 2025

When the streets knew his name (Weekend Street/Reflections # 238)


 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philly had changed, but Earl “Feather Hat” Johnson hadn’t—at least not in his mind. He stood by the rail, cigarette between his fingers, watching the crowd pass, oblivious of who he was. Back in ’72, people cleared a path when they saw him coming. He ran dice games in alleyways slick with rain, his pockets fat and his smile sharper than a switchblade. The cops knew him, the hustlers feared him, and the women… well, they always knew where to find him. Now, the city didn’t look his way. Just another old man in a beat-up coat and a hat with a feather that used to mean something. He took a slow drag, tasting the years on his tongue, and for a moment, the smoke almost smelled like respect.

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Friday, August 8, 2025

Reign of Rain (Weekend Street/Reflections # 237)


 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Rain taps soft and slow— 

father, child on wet pavement, 

time walks in silence.

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Friday, August 1, 2025

Rain Over the Louvre (Weekend Street/Reflections # 236)

 

Paris, France

Rain cascaded over Paris, tracing the ancient lines of the Louvre's stone facade and pooling around the glass pyramid, a modern heart beating amid the city's timeless pulse. The Arc de Triomphe du carrousel loomed faintly through the mist, its arches guarding echoes of revolutions past. The Seine, unseen but felt, murmured beneath the wet streets, weaving through a metropolis where every raindrop seemed to carry the weight of centuries—history, art, and resilience fused into the city's soul.

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Friday, July 25, 2025

Silent Streets Weekend Street/Reflections # 235)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 

In the shadow of the city, every soul stands apart yet shares the same street.

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Friday, July 18, 2025

Once upon a time in The Village "Weekend Street/Reflections # 234)

 

New York City

There she was, sagging against the smudged glass of an overpriced Greenwich Village wine bar, a fur hat that probably cost more than my monthly rent, her hand propping up a face that’d seen too many phonies—and, judging by the glazed look in her eyes, too many glasses of wine. 
The guy—some loping stranger with flipped-up collar and 1950s Elvis sideburns—ambled past, lost in his own search for something real amid the Village’s fake bohemian clutter. The street buzzed with hipsters, clowns, and posers, and I couldn’t help but choke on a wry laugh—here we were, chasing authenticity like a lost glove, while she was already three sheets to the wind, proving the joke was on us all.

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Friday, July 11, 2025

Un éclaboussure d'humour ? (Weekend Street/Reflections # 233)

 

Paris, France

On a sunny March afternoon at a café, François' wife and daughter were lost in their coffee chat—until François plopped a newspaper hat on his head and belted out, "Vive la France, la Bastille est prise!" Raising his glass, he sloshed water everywhere, dousing his wife’s arm and soaking the table. His daughter turned beet-red, while his wife snapped, "Slow down, Mr. Hanriot—it’s only March!"

Dans un café un après-midi ensoleillé de mars, la femme et la fille de François étaient absorbées par leur discussion autour du café—jusqu’à ce que François pose un chapeau de journal sur sa tête et lance à pleins poumons : "Vive la France, la Bastille est prise !" En levant son verre, il éclaboussa d’eau partout, trempant le bras de sa femme et inondant la table. Sa fille devint rouge comme une tomate, tandis que sa femme lança : "Ralentis, Monsieur Hanriot—nous ne sommes qu'en mars!"

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Friday, July 4, 2025

Saxophone Whispers of Independence (Weekend Street/Reflections # 232)


Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

On the bustling streets of Philadelphia, a blind man sat playing the Star-Spangled Banner, his saxophone gleaming under the July sun. His fingers danced with memory, not sight, each note rising over the sounds of passing cars. The world passed by, indifferent, but I lingered with nostalgia tugging at my heart, lost in the melody’s promise of freedom.


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Friday, June 27, 2025

Une micro-fiction (Weekend Street/Reflections # 231)


 Paris, France

Debout devant son instrument qui semble prêt à s écrouler à chaque note, le musicien éméché a grogné, renversé un verre de vin, qui s'est brisé sur le sol et dit;

"Tu appelles ça de l’accordage ?" tandis que l’archet glissait pour la troisième fois il enchaîne "J’ai entendu mieux d’un contrebassiste qui a trop bu au bistrot !" 

Soudain, les applaudissements fusent et public rit fortement, conscient que sa consommation d'alcool, son mépris de soi et son humour ironique étaient aussi célèbres que ses solos. 

Un peu plus tard j'ai ri dans ma barbe en sirotant mon vin.

Oh, quel spectacle !

(Standing in front of his instrument, which looked like it was about to fall apart with every note, the half-drunk musician grumbled, knocked over a glass of wine, and said:
“You call that tuning?” as the bow slipped for the third time. He followed up with, “I’ve heard better from a drunk double bassist in a dive bar!”
Suddenly, the crowd erupted in applause and laughter, well aware that his boozing, self-deprecation, and sarcastic humor were as legendary as his solos.

A bit later, I chuckled to myself while sipping my wine.

Man, what a show!)

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Friday, June 20, 2025

Mesmerized (Weekend Street/Reflections # 230)

 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

In the shadow of the hanging ducks, we can find the weight of tradition, the beginning of an interesting story, or simply the promise of a good meal.

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Friday, June 13, 2025

Nostalghia (Weekend Street/Reflections # 229)


 Florence, Italy

Rain drizzled over Piazza della Signoria as the old man leaned against the wall of his shopfront, cigarette wavering in his weathered hand. Clouded with nostalgia, his eyes traced the statues—memories of youth flickering: a carnival dance, a lost love’s whisper under the Loggia. 
The smoke curled upward, a fragile thread to the past, dissolving into the mist. Time folded inward; the piazza faded, and he stood alone, suspended between what was and what remained unspoken.

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Friday, June 6, 2025

Whispers of the Eternal Alley (Weekend Street/Reflections # 228)

 

Florence, Italy

At an intersection of cobblestoned Italian alleys, where stones hummed with lost carnivals, solitary figures sat on a weathered bench. One was completely unaware of the other, while the other was very aware. The man, cloaked in a heavy coat and a fedora, spoke animatedly into an invisible phone, his voice a melody of nostalgia and happiness. Across from him sat an apparition gazing into the distance, draped in flowing white garments that billowed as if caught in an unseen wind, its face a map of time with rivers of silver tears carving through it. It was always nearby, whispering, beckoning the man to a fatal rendezvous. 

Suddenly, a strange sound echoed through the alley, followed by a motorbike, its rider a clown playing an accordion. The bizarre spectacle stirred the man’s laughter and drowned out the apparition's whispers. Instead of turning the corner and meeting his fate, he followed the clown to the circus, thus temporarily escaping the inevitable. Unaffected, the mysterious ghostly figure drifted away, knowing that time was on its side. 

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Friday, May 30, 2025

Jacques Vane Private Detective (Weekend Street/Reflections # 227)


 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Philly sidewalk was dull and grimy, a black-and-white blur of grit and secrets. Jacques Vane, trench coat flapping like a tired crow, trudged past a row of bikes. He didn’t look back at the woman in the white coat, but he felt her gaze—sharp, accusing, like a knife between the ribs. She knew something. They always did.

He was distracted by a man slipping a note to a stranger. Another scheme in this sleepless city. Lighting a cigarette, the ember flaring briefly, Vane growled, “Philly, you’ll grind us down.” The woman turned the corner, her jasmine scent lingering. He’d find her. He always did.

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