In 2023, my wife and I set out across the USA and back, mostly on the roads less taken, 8,006 miles across 23 states in 39 days. We had friends to visit in North Carolina, Texas, Southern California, Nevada, and Iowa, but no set dates to be anywhere. Day 1 Here is how the back […]
Day 16, Navajo Rug Auction
Attending the Navajo Rug Auction in Crownpoint, New Mexico in the late 1970s is one of my wife’s favorite memories. She loved remembering the experience. A tiny rug, 17×22-inches, hangs on the wall in our reading room. As we drove cross country this spring, it occurred to her that we would be within a thousand […]
Day 19, Green Desert, Arizona
The Mojave Desert was green. Here it is on April 10, our 19th day on the road. During the past year, we had heard of huge storms inundating California, about snow storms dropping feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains, but we had not hear about that moisture reaching the desert. I have never […]
Smart Phone Cameras
We cannot see without using our smart phones. Their cameras let us record and then share our experiences. But even as our audiences grow, the attention we get and the attention we give becomes progressively more superficial. Flit, flit, flit — only the stickiest of posts gets more than a glance. This, too, is how […]
The Eyes See
The eyes see but the mind does not. It was not until much later, looking closer at this photo, that I saw that all these flags are not blowing in the same direction. While a strong east wind blows most of them to the right, a strong west wind blows one to the left. Remarkable! […]
Targeting Civilians
Armed soldiers should not target unarmed civilians. That seems clear enough to me sitting thousands of miles from conflict, but those at war soon lose such clarity. For those at war, entire populations become the enemy. During World War II, the world condemned the Luftwaffe for bombing London and other cities in England, but then, […]
The Best Words
My wife’s dog waits at the front gate, her gaze fixed on the empty driveway, intently watching for the joyous moment when her mistress will return. Unlike her dog, my wife’s husband exhibits no such display of longing and devotion. He is not kneeling in prayer, again and again exhorting God to keep her safe […]
Things kept going wrong but that didn’t bother us.
Why did our companionship, in spite of events, continue as cheerfully as ever? Why didn’t our spirits sink? First, the Uber driver’s map app took him to the other side of Central Park from where we were actually waiting in the dark and the cold. Then, having arrived at last at our destination, we saw […]
Fill Up On Bread
“Fill up on bread! If I heard that once, I heard it a thousand times.” That is what my father said when he remembered living in New York City, one of eleven children growing up in Hell’s Kitchen and the Lower East Side during the Great Depression. If I heard my father say that once, […]
Welcome To My World
This is where Danny Schweers welcomes you to his world. There are photos, but the emphasis is text. His more purely photographic work appears at DannySchweers.com. Click here to contact Danny Schweers. Moseying 2023 In the spring of 2023, Danny Schweers, his wife, and their dog took a road trip across the USA and back, […]