Category: Travel
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Indulge Me, Please — I Promise this will be the LAST Holiday-Themed Post of the Year!
With the images so fresh in my mind, and laundry still to be done from our trip to New York City over Christmas, I wanted to share with you some of the classic holiday lights of “The Big Apple” that contribute to such a festive, magical atmosphere in an already-interesting city (or as my husband…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 in Pictures
After stepping away from the computer for most of the week, to enjoy a memorable Christmas in New York City with my family, it was a pleasure to take some time today to reflect back on the year. Restricting myself to one photo a month was not easy, so I cannot say these are my “best”…
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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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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…
Travel. Garden. Eat. 