
Back when Ken, Yumiko and I were living in Tokyo we met a young man who was stationed on a ship in the Sea of Japan. His name was Adrian Rodzianko. He is the nephew of my brother Peter’s wife Anna. We fell in love with Adrian over the year we were in Japan.…

My photograph entitled “Halloween’s Coming” is a finalist in the September “Better Photo” contest. I knew it was worth slogging through all those spider webs in Valley Forge Park.

It was a wet cold morning – a great time for spiders in Valley Forge Park. I got there a little before nine and they were EVERYWHERE. It was even a bit too creepy for me, but deep down inside I was thrilled to see all those spider webs lined with thousands of little…

Two Beauties – Izumi Kono and Yumiko posed for a few portrait shots. Izumi was visiting from Tokyo. We loved her visit.

I was taking pictures of a yellow jacket eating an aphid (see slide show at www.kittykono.com) when I heard a loud squawking. I looked up and saw a great blue heron rise up from the pond and land way up in a tree. I didn’t have the right lens, but still thought I would…