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Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise
As I mulled over this week’s Photo Challenge theme, I considered possibilities surrounding birthdays, holiday celebrations, and arguably astonishing sights while traveling. I then remembered little Surprise Lake along Highway 38, a National Scenic Byway in Northern Minnesota, and decided it fit the bill nicely! The fall season when I took this photo was a particularly…
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Vivaldi and La Sainte-Chapelle: A Transcendental Travel Experience
“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” ~ Aldous Huxley Music has always held a special place in my heart, filling me with emotion and triggering memories like nothing else can do. Perhaps that is why one of my favorite experiences from our trip to Paris was attending a chamber music concert of the…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate
As I sat listening to the noteworthy performances of our high school’s music ensembles at their annual holiday concert this weekend, I could not help but reflect on how life is so very delicate. In the photo below, my son is no older than those innocent children in Connecticut whose lives were taken in Friday’s horror-filled…
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Peaceful Sunday at the Feeder
One would expect Minnesotans to be somewhat jaded and indifferent to news of a fresh layer of snow in December. However, after a winter last year that was brown and gray for much of the season, and a November this year that left us with only a few inches for a brief period of time, many…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons
Thanksgiving Day marked an abrupt change of season from fall to winter in northern Minnesota. Thanksgiving morning was beautiful and sunny with temperatures reaching 50 °F (10 °C) by early afternoon. As the day progressed, a cold front with gusty winds and snow moved in, dropping the temperatures overnight by 30 °F. I used a photo from…
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It’s All About the Little Things
Which parent hasn’t searched the world over and then paid through the nose for the elusive toy that darling Jimmy whispered into Santa’s ear was the “one” special present he wanted this year? (I confess, for me, it was a hard-to-get Lego kit that I ended up ordering online and paying almost as much in…
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