.4 This project began a long time ago when I would see the old men sitting on benches outside the hardware store in my grandmother's home town.  It has evolved into a combination of poetry and photography from around the world.  My wife, poet and prose writer Betsy Joseph, has joined me on this journey.  Betsy adds her unique perspective with observations of whimsy and reverential reflection in seventeen syllables.  A haiku, her poetic form for this project, is much like a photograph, each in its way a brief observation of a human moment in time.  This makes a good and interesting combination.