Category: USA
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Pemaquid Rocks
We think we’re off to see a lighthouse, but it is the ROCKS that steal the show at Pemaquid Point, at the south end of Maine’s Route 130. Formed hundreds of millions of years ago, these beauties were once deep sea sediments. Hoisted by heat and pressure within the earth’s crust, they changed into the metamorphic combinations…
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Florida Gallery
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Gator Gal
If you’re an unlucky photographer like I was at southwest Florida’s Myakka River State Park, this is what happens: dozens and dozens of alligators suddenly appear – basking on the shores and slithering in the waters around you, but you’re trapped in an airboat in the third seat from the side of the vessel –…
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Sarasota Story
We have always heard so much about Sarasota from friends and family and finally made it to this culture-rich and elegant city on the southwest coast of Florida this frigid January. Many people are attracted by the beaches in the area, and indeed Siesta Key with its dazzling fine white sand [almost like powdered sugar]…
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Philadelphia Spring
Philadelphia is a historic city and I had a few days to wander around to my hearts’ content recently. Walking down roads, old alleys and beautiful little squares — I found that what I appreciated most was the more advanced spring there than the one I left behind in Michigan, where Mother Nature has been…
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California Dreamin’
“All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray, I’ve been for a walk on a winter’s day. I’d be safe and warm if I was in L.A. — California dreaming on such a winter’s day. “ I can hear these words in my head and the singer that I associate most with this…
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Handmade
A few weeks ago while I was cutting back and struggling with the pruning of an overgrown rose bush in our yard, I decided to do something creative with the thorny branches that would have otherwise been relegated to the recycling heap. The idea to fashion a wild and rustic wreath from rose branches and…
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New York Excursion
In mid-February, we escaped to New York City for a dose of high art and theatre. The lure was the reopening of the fabulously renovated Islamic wing of the Metropolitan Museum. It turned out that the American Wing was also just reopened after a sprucing up. So the day we visited was an Islamic/American cultural…
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A New Year’s Postcard
May there be plenty of blue skies, balmy breezes and good vibes in 2012. Despite the dire, apocalyptic expectations for 2012 in the Mayan calendar, I don’t believe a word of it. It’s been enjoyable writing this blog and keeping in touch with all of my family and friends through stories of our travels. I’ll…
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