Bob Varettoni

15 beautiful pictures of NYC under snow — Time Out New York New York’s first big snowstorm of the season turned streets into snow globes.

New York in the snow... apple.news/AYCPFB4v9Qam...

Trite Words (in the form of a sonnet) Finding my way in New Jersey, with posts about family and work, writing and photography, books… and baseball.

A related sonnet: varettoni.blogspot.com/2026/01/trit...

My hobby these days:
Fiddling off-key while Rome burns.
Guilty, like Tim Cook.

Monday #haiku 📝 (57)

"How can one make a life out of six cardboard boxes full of tailor's bills, love letters and old picture postcards? Yes, writing lives is the devil."
Virginia Woolf, born on this day in 1882

15-year-old Joshua Romero Hernandez gives his first poetry reading, last night at the Paterson Museum in New Jersey.

Cats 🐈‍⬛

Penguins at Central Park Zoo in NYC

Happy #penguinawarenessday - or, as it’s known around my house, “Tuesday” 🐧

Photo of Poe Cottage in the Bronx, with a cat wandering by the side door

Haunted in the Bronx,
A feral cat at the door.
RIP, Edgar.

#mondaymorninghaiku📝 (56) in honor of #EdgarAllanPoe - #btd in 1809

Illustration from "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Alan Poe Collection" odddot.com/books/sticker-jigsaw-the-edgar-allan-poe-collection illustration shows vignettes of Poe's life.

Illustration from "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Alan Poe Collection" odddot.com/books/sticker-jigsaw-the-edgar-allan-poe-collection Illustration from "Annabel Lee" showing lovers embracing on a rocky coast

Illustration from "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Alan Poe Collection" odddot.com/books/sticker-jigsaw-the-edgar-allan-poe-collection illustration shows a bisection of the Usher mansion with several rooms and the crypt.

Illustration from "Sticker Jigsaw: The Edgar Alan Poe Collection" odddot.com/books/sticker-jigsaw-the-edgar-allan-poe-collection illustration from "Pit and the Pendulum" showing a man tied to a stone slab watching a blade swing over him. Rats chew the ropes.

Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe, born on this day 1809 🫀🐈‍⬛💀

Here are some of the illustrations I made for the Poe sticker book for Macmillan Books in 2024

St. Anthony’s. Original…

Here's AI adding snow today to an original image of a church in New Jersey...

Opinion | What comes after ‘seeing is believing’ — The Washington Post In the age of AI, photographs no longer express truth. That doesn’t make them any less meaningful.

About AI "photographs" apple.news/Ax7ayFprnQJu...

Mom’s 94th birthday today ❤️

Outside a student art exhibit

The view at a local bar

Date night in New Jersey

Gravestones at Calvary Cemetery in Paterson NJ

When I visit you,
my heart races, knees weaken.
Gravestones cast shadows.

Monday #haiku (55)

A winter’s walk, today in New Jersey

Remembering David Bowie, who died 10 years ago tomorrow (he would have been 79 yesterday) - left, Ellen von Unwerth’s iconic image in a NYC gallery; right, Eduardo Kobra’s tribute mural in Jersey City

Can Poetry Heal the Divided Nation?

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...

Last Christmas cookie,
Sacrificed for my breakfast.
Immortalized here. 🙂

#mondaymorninghaiku📝 (54)
#twelfthnight #gingerbread #nofilter

Passing a church in Budd Lake, NJ, reminded by E.B. White to "always look out for the presence of wonder."

Screenshot of Bugs Bunny

Me on Saturday mornings. Still a kid at heart 🙂

This is a wonderful read. Highly recommended!

Taking the (toy) train home after the holidays, at the NY Transit Museum Annex in Grand Central

Happy Birthday
JD Salinger!

Looming crucifix
In a cozy dining room.
One more silent night.

Monday #haiku (53)
#datenight in Ridgefield Park,NJ

Caturday

A Poet’s Call to Re-Discover and Re-Imagine Central Park Photo courtesy of Aaron Poochigian. By Claudia Gohn Five years ago, Aaron Poochigian was lost in cocaine addiction. The COVID

A poet in Central Park www.westsiderag.com/2025/12/25/a...

A view of 5th Avenue, last night, New York City

Following fake stars
Has always been my weakness.
Lessons never learned.

#mondaymorninghaiku📝 (53)

Christmas tree at the end of E. 50th St. in New York City

This Christmas tree is in the courtyard in front of Irving Berlin’s former residence

The only good part of yesterday’s winter #solstice was my favorite tree shining just a bit longer 🙂🎄

One Year, 52 Haikus (With Photos) Finding my way in New Jersey, with posts about family and work, writing and photography, books… and baseball.

Combining two loves, photography and poetry, I've posted an original photo and haiku every Monday this past year on social media. The result?
varettoni.blogspot.com/2025/12/one-...