Apple Pie

Our friend Lori Gale baked this pie for us. I found it on the doorstep. After the first taste I decided to start a cult to worship the pie. Photos are from March 31 through April 4...and there is still a slice in the fridge!

See the animated GIF version of Apple Pie here.

Shot with my Olympus PEN E-PM1 camera courtesy of Get Olympus and the PENready Project. Lit with my Sunpak MDF-500 AC Digit Flash, 500 watt sec. Combination 2-in-1 Slim Flash & Softbox, with Modeling Light & Slave  studio strobe and synchronized with the camera by a MicroSync Digital radio remote.

Mower and Rock

  Shot with my Olympus PEN E-PM1 using the Pinhole Art filter. Camera courtesy of Get Olympus and the PENready Project.

Lake Welch Beach

Shot with my Olympus PEN E-PM1 using the Pinhole Art filter. Camera courtesy of Get Olympus and the PENready Project.

Roberta At Home

Marking my wife's first full 24 hours since discharge from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Earlier Mom and Dad came to visit and brought copious quantities of Q-Tips, Honey and Chock Full 'O Nuts Decaf Coffee from Costco. Then Roberta and I walked a lap of the second floor at The Palisades Center, picked up some pizza from Dee Maria's  and here she is enjoying a rerun of Mission Impossible (the TV show with Peter Graves) in our cozy home with the Forsythia blooming outside.

Manhattan: On the Street

NYC Neon

Shot with my Olympus PEN E-PM1 using the Pinhole Art filter. Camera courtesy of Get Olympus and the PENready Project.

Magnolias

Shot with my Olympus PEN E-PM1 using the Pinhole Art filter. Camera courtesy of Get Olympus and the PENready Project.

The Light is MY Religion

Shot with my Olympus PEN E-PM1 using the Pinhole Art filter. Camera courtesy of Get Olympus and the PENready Project.

First Daffodil of Spring

Shot with my Olympus PEN E-PM1 using the Pinhole Art filter. Camera courtesy of Get Olympus and the PENready Project.

Ninth Avenue

View from the Lincoln Park Grill on 9th Avenue in Manhattan.  I'm sitting in this pub killing time with the help of a whiskey and some people watching. I'm waiting for my wife who is at the DDS. One patron of the bar goes outside to smoke a cigarette. The weather here is so nice that the street level bars, pubs and restaurants have opened all their windows so every puff this clown exhales floats right into the bar. When he's done these two slobs sit their fat asses down on the window sill. So if I'm sitting at that table I've got your butt in my face? Worse yet they both light up. So when Roberta arrived we departed. I love New York but there are a large number of New Yorkers I could do without.


Shot with my Olympus PEN E-PM1 using the Pinhole Art filter. Camera courtesy of Get Olympus and the PENready Project.

Fire Truck

Shot with my Olympus PEN E-PM1 using the Pinhole Art filter. Camera courtesy of Get Olympus and the PENready Project.

Green Stripe

Shot with my Olympus PEN E-PM1 using the Pinhole Art filter. Camera courtesy of Get Olympus and the PENready Project.

O'donogue's Tavern, Lunch, St. Patty's Day

Saint Patrick's Day 2012, Kevin O'donoghue sits at the front table in O'donoghue's Tavern, Nyack NY.

Nyack NY

Vent by Mark Kalan

Shot with my Olympus PEN E-PM1 using the Diorama Art filter. Camera courtesy of Get Olympus and the PENready Project.

Restaurant Row

Shot with the "Pop Art" filter on the Olympus PEN E-PM1 courtesy of GetOlympus.com and the PENready.com Project

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Flowers from the Tursellis

A lovely bouquet from my niece Stephanie and her husband Matt who aren't even married an entire month...yet.

Shot with my Olympus PEN E-PM1 camera courtesy of Get Olympus and the PENready Project. Lit with my Sunpak DigitFlash 1000 studio strobe and MicroSync Digital radio remote.

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In the Saloon at the Oyster Bar

Shot with my Olympus PEN E-PM1 using the Pinhole Art filter. Camera courtesy of Get Olympus and the PENready Project.

The Lipstick Building

This is the "Lipstick Building" where the notorious Bernie Madoff had his offices.
Which has nothing to do with Memorial Sloan-Kettering or our personal journey except that it was on the way.

Roberta and I met with the surgeon today. Pathology folks discovered that her cancer was more than 30% the highly aggressive type. 

So the protocol is to be more aggressive surgically.

On March 23rd Roberta will go back into MSK to repeat the procedure only they'll remove what remains of the upper quadrant of her left lung, plus her lymph nodes.

We were aware this scenario. We had the option of two surgeries and took a roll of the dice to see if they would get it all the first time. So you can view this as: Back to Plan A.

Roberta has the best attitude and I am holding up well. Basically, I married the most popular girl in school.

More positives; We're taking the time to experience Manhattan together, something we haven't done much of since we were dating.

Our new favorite is the Saloon in the Oyster Bar Restaurant. 

Deep in the catacombs of Grand Central Station is the entrance to the Oyster Bar Restaurant.
The entrance to the Saloon is further inside.

Photos shot with my Olympus PEN E-PM1 using the Pinhole Art filter. Camera courtesy of Get Olympus and the PENready Project.

Another Bouquet

Shot with my Olympus PEN E-PM1 camera courtesy of Get Olympus and the PENready Project. Lit with my Sunpak DigitFlash 1000 studio strobe and MicroSync Digital radio remote.

1:11PM EST Pearl River NY

Shot with my Olympus PEN E-PM1 using the Pinhole Art filter. Camera courtesy of Get Olympus and the PENready Project.