Karen Leonard Photography

07/11/2024

amazing to me how many people chose the colosseum over true leadership. but bread and circus often wins over hard truths. i am mourning for america.

07/11/2024

05/11/2024

VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!

05/11/2024

VOTE AS IF YOUR RIGHTS DEPEND IN IT BECAUSE…THEY DO. Not…going…back.

13/09/2024

Another delightful senior portrait session!

08/07/2024

apples on my morning walk.

22/06/2024

College tours with took us near Newport, RI, where I got to spend some summers as a small kid. I haven’t been back - certainly not in many decades. I wondered what it would feel like — would I remember it? of course it’s changed a great deal. but i walked the same beach we went to, and saw the “red tide” I remember so well…. Can’t say there were vivid flashbacks, but there is a sense of comfort and familiarity.

08/04/2024

Visited (Congressional Cemetery) this weekend on a gorgeous spring day. A complete surprise - a few famous “residents” (J. Edgar Hoover, Marion Barry, John Philip Souza), but actually a really inclusive array of ordinary people from the 1700s on. When we walked in, there was a volunteer at the gate house strumming a guitar as he waited to welcome visitors and their dogs, who are allowed in for a small fee. This may sound weird but the place felt really loved - volunteers offering information and help, hand painted murals in the bathrooms, lovingly-tended plots, a little library with “books for the living”, families and frolicking dogs and flowering trees. I have always liked wandering cemeteries, thinking about the lives of the people buried there, admiring the statuary and the loving words. This place left me feeling … joy, and sort of fullness… like just feeling the whole cycle of life and death and time and continuity.

22/02/2024

DMV friends - EPIC show opens tomorrow at The Madeira School! Come and live out your big hair band fantasies with these rockin’ performers!

10/02/2024

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our beautiful brilliant funny kind Keira. You are my warm ray of sunshine each and every day. How did 17 come so fast!?!

10/12/2023

dreaming of Christmas in Vienna…

16/11/2023

near the Hudson