Intents and Purposes

See...

This is intended to be a visual essay with illustrations, but the technology of my light box [camera - Edit.] has been flummoxing me of late. There is also the matter of publicizing the rantings here so it's not just the seven of you good fellows reading these scratches every time I get a moment to put something down.

One would think that with 350 years of preparation everything would be ready but that is just not so. I do want to start off by showing you where I have called home for the last half century, so please bear with me and my not-so-humble editor. We are collaborating feverishly to make some time to produce our first few images.

From there, this operation should just take off. After all, New Amsterdam has no shortage of stories that write themselves, really. And since I have the privilege of having seen many of these stories occur in the flesh, I and my editor are merely vessels for forwarding the amazing intricacies of what I have seen in my extraordinarily long lifetime.

With that said, I make you this vow...the next installment will contain images. And each entry from there on will be image-based. It figures that technical difficulties and time constraints would sidetrack this endeavor, three and a half centuries in the making. But there you have it. I will be back soon with a fistful of glorious color plates! [pictures...tad overdramatic there too - Edit.]

Onward!