In the early summer of 1977, my wife Carolyn and I moved into an apartment in a two-family frame house in the Boston suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts. Little did we imagine at the time that we’d still be living here forty years later. Recently married when we moved here, this is where we have raised three cats and grown old together. It's where I’ve lived for most of my photographic career.

As a photographer I've always searched for beauty in the everyday world around me: images of ordinary places and people. I've been called a connoisseur of the commonplace, and what could be more commonplace than one’s own home and neighborhood.

These photographs were taken over the four decades we've lived here. They naturally divide into two groups, images taken in and around the house and images taken in and around the neighborhood.

For now they are in no particular order; I'm currently at the preliminary stage of uploading images worthy of consideration. I will edit them down and sequence them at a later stage, and ultimately into a book.

For the first time I'm looking at my family snapshots in a serious way, and not just as images to include with Christmas cards and in slide shows for friends and relatives. I think they tell an interesting story.