Melissa Golden

EPHEMERA

Lovers on the US/Mexico border - Dec. '08
   
Hot rider and harness horse - Monticello, NY
   
Barn Cat - Monticello, NY
     
  
Santas on Sunset Blvd. - Beverly Hills, CA
   
Acrobat - Brooklyn, NY
   
     
  
Sicilian Brothers Rosario and Alfredo Cali take a smoke break outside their restaurant, Little Italy, during a late dinner.
  
Bamboo pole in hand, Troy Ferguson, 8, stands between the gnarled roots of cypress trees to fish on a rainy Sunday at Nobleton Wayside Park.
  
Jay Cochran walks the highwire at the Georgia National Fair - Perry, Ga.
     
  
Ibises take off over Lake Henderson in Inverness, Fla. at dawn, flying past a stand of trees displaying a rare bit of fall color.
   
Yassin Kassim scrapes graffiti off Moore's Ford Bridge, in Monroe, Ga. the site of the 1946 lynchings of two young black couples. "I want to make sure that the past will not stick to us," he said.
  
A dog is intubated during neuter surgery in a mobile clinic that provides the proceedure at a discount for low-income families.
     
  
Heading to church in the rain - Athens, Ga.
   
Snowbound chairs - NY, NY
   
A cook cleans racks at the White House in Washington, D.C.
     
  
A mother and son shop for Christmas ornaments at Happy Valley Pottery in Oconee County, Ga.
   
Children playing in a park - Boston, MA
   
Bridge to Levy County - Citrus County, Fla.