Joke of the Day (Stewart Francis, on a Documentary on Ships)

"I saw a documentary on how ships are kept together. Riveting." — Canadian stand-up comic Stewart Francis quoted in Tony Deyal, “Nuts in a Name?”, The Gleaner (Jamaica, WI.), August 25, 2012

Photo of the Day: Blue Skies, Mild Temps…Hilton Head

Hard to believe it was three months ago when I snapped this picture of Harbortown in Hilton Head, S.C. On the day I shot this, the temperatures were in the low 60s—enough to make me don a jacket. By comparison, when today's mercury didn’t even get up to double digits in my area of Northern New Jersey, my experience back then feels like a heat wave.

Photo of the Day: Watery Dividing Line

I took this photo on Thursday morning, while crossing the Staten Island Ferry on my way to a game of the New York Yankees’ Class A minor-league team, the Staten Island Yankees.