Do all boys love trains? Well, I found one that can’t make a choice between trains and firefighters.

I enjoy judging photo contests, especially if they involve photojournalism. Yesterday, our photo staff at The Telegraph in Nashua, N.H., judged the Vermont Press Association’s annual photo contest.

Usually nurses ask to take your temperature, blood pressure, or pulse. But, today one took my photo…

CUTLINE: Manchester Central’s Felipe Acevedo eyes a forced fumble from Nashua South’s Nicholas Haskell Friday, Sept. 25 at Gill Stadium in Manchester. The Little Green held off the Panthers 20-14.
TECH SPECS: f/2.8, 1/640, 300mm, 2500 ISO
THOUGHTS: Lately I’ve been shooting my field sports from the prone position (on my belly). There are two reasons for [...]

“I am the queen of the castle.” Those were some of the words sung by three-year-old Isabel Gerstein of Nashua, N.H., while she twirled and danced in front of a large wall mirror outside her bedroom.

A smile is worth a thousand words, and maybe more in her case! How else could I tell the story about eight-year-old (8 - 1/2 as she says) Rachel Caliguiri fighting Cerebral Palsy without writing a word. With a soft voice and shy demeanor, she whispered to me that she gets to go to Disney World when she can walk by herself.

I photographed a Good Friday procession today, April 10, 2009, in Nashua, where a couple incidents reminded me of how rude and disrespectful some people can be to one another.

There was a reason the regulars at our bird feeders were away this morning. Outnumbered and outsized, the chick-a -dees, nuthatches and finches had to wait for breakfast until the flock of wild turkeys finished their meal.

Every spring I look forward to the first flowers emerging up through the leaves coating our perennial gardens. This flatbush Crocus plant pierced right through the thick oak leaves covering it - a sign that I better get out there soon and remove the leaves from the bark mulch below.

Whose arm is that, and what’s it doing there?