Category: Travel
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Embracing the Beauty of Winter
I am wistfully wishing for more snow, as the last layer retreats with temperatures pushing 50 degrees Fahrenheit — an unseasonably warm day for early December. We are past the warm colors of autumn, and the green of spring is many months away. Living in northern Minnesota, you learn to embrace winter, or face the risk that…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Green
Perhaps I have Maui on my mind given my post earlier this week, but when I saw this week’s photo challenge theme (“Green”), the bamboo forest along the Pipiwai Trail in Haleakala National Park immediately came to mind. The Pipiwai Trail had plenty of other “green” images to fill out the rest of the gallery. If only…
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White-Knuckle Driving is Not Romantic
A couple of years ago, my husband and I had the good fortune to spend a week in Hawaii, split between Oahu and Maui, to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary (the destination selected due to my husband having a business-related seminar to attend while on Oahu). During our several nights on Maui, we enjoyed a rented…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Renewal
Living plant life emerging in a forest devastated by fire is nature’s renewal. This photo was taken in the summer of 2010 near (or possibly still within) Glacier National Park in Montana. We spent several nights camping in the Park and were driving to Great Falls, Montana when I pulled off the highway to take…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Geometry
This week’s photo challenge sent me away from my archive of digital photos and down to the Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth, Minnesota, which epitomizes geometric shape and design. The first photo is my formal response to the Weekly Photo Challenge, taking the advice provided by Quintin Lake, who guest hosted the weekly challenge: Tip: Once…
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