Hamptons beach #3 footsteps, originally uploaded by Dan Hewins.

Taken two years ago today.

This was the day before my friends, Doug and Emily’s, wedding. They are a day away from their second anniversary! Congrats, guys.

Another interesting note about this photo is that it gets a lot of views from when people do Google searches for Hamptons beach footsteps.

Sarah Palin is so infuriating. She offers no solutions whatsoever and just blasts the Obama plan wholesale. She can’t resist using the term “death panels” and still lends credence to the idea. It’s preposterous! She does so in her tongue-in-cheek way that offers her plausible deniability as well. Not only that but she offers up as “common sense” things that are squarely opinions and have nothing to do with common sense, not to mention sense at all. “Common sense tells us that the government’s attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones.” Is that really true? How about the Panama Canal? How about World War II? How about the interstate highway system? How about Medicare? How about purchasing Alaska? Are all of these big problems that, when solved, created bigger problems? Who started the idea of government incompetency? Was it in the Regan era? Let’s not provide services and let the wealth “trickle down” while we say how useless the federal government is. And I suppose Sarah Palin would have fixed everything and restored our confidence had she been elected? Or would she continue to spout about how poorly the government runs things while she was the #2 person in charge? Is this why she quit her post in Alaska, because it was just too hard to be part of the useless government machine?

Read Sarah Palin’s drivel here.

Prospect Park, originally uploaded by Dan Hewins.

View from relaxville

On top of Big Slide, originally uploaded by Dan Hewins.

One of the 46er high peaks!

As one other Hewins on facebook put it, I’ve been “collecting Hewinses” on facebook recently. I met Amber Hewins, who also lives in Brooklyn, has a farm share, likes pickles, and twitters. Maybe we’re related, I don’t know yet. But I did determine that there is a Loren Hewins in Indiana who is my fourth cousin. We share great-great-great grandparents. Pretty cool. I want to build a big family tree.

IMG_9591, originally uploaded by Dan Hewins.

My parents and sister came to visit New York last month and we went out to Liberty Island and a lot of other places around the city while they were here. This is everything but the statue.

UFO at Storm King, originally uploaded by Dan Hewins.

I found another UFO in a pretty unlikely place. This is etched into the window of the elevator at Storm King sculpture park.