In awe of the Acropolis

(Photo by Jeffrey Fillion, January, 1990 Acropolis, Athens, Greece)

I went to Italy & Greece during the month of January, 1990. I saw soooo many incredible things I'd only read about or never thought about. Lately, I watch the Travel Channel... and there was a recent episode about Athens, Greece.

I remember going to the Acropolis. Standing in front of the Parthenon. My mouth open in awe. The two professors who were leading the college group I was part of... calling me to come back and listen to their lecture. Yeah. Right. I'm in front of a building thousands of years old... and they want me to listen to them flap their lips. I never took my eyes off the Parthenon as I backed away and toward the professors.

I don't have a photo scanned of the Acropolis. I did take photos... just didn't scan them. I did scan this photo. A broken statue of a male that I saw in piles of ruins around the Parthenon. If you look you can also see a horse's head on the left side.

So, the Acropolis... I'd say that it definitely ranks as one of the top ten of my own personal list of wonders of the world that I've seen.

Little red tricycle

That's me... 5 years old... this photo inspired the poem below...

Little Red Tricycle

by Jeffrey Fillion


Gripping the handlebars tightly
Feet pedaling furiously
Up and down Grandpa's drive
That was joy for me

No cares in the world
Save how fast I could pedal
No clear destination
I'd let the wheels decide

Life was only as hard
As a skinned knee in summer
Gotten from turning too fast
Or going over a bump

Yet I always got back on
Cuz I loved that free feeling
Of zipping around aimlessly
As little boys are meant to be

(October 22, 2001)

Walk way

I took this photo in 1987 for an Intro to Photography class. It is a walk way on the back of a building that sits next to a river in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Not exactly the safest of walk ways as the railing was busted up. But it caught my eye, particularly the way the shadow of the bent railing landed in the middle of the walk way.