Category: Travel
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Bentleyville ~ Magical Tour of Lights
Irritation festers as I am faced with Christmas holiday decorations before Halloween is even over. I make one exception to these premature December holiday signs that I otherwise despise . . . Bentleyville. In order to bring life to this annual magical tour of lights in Duluth, Minnesota, teams of volunteers must start constructing the scenes and…
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Spooktacular! (Travel Theme: Spooky)
Beautiful Glensheen mansion in Duluth, Minnesota hosted its second annual “Jack O’Lantern Spooktacular” last weekend. The evenings were classic bone-chilling, northern Minnesota fall weather, but they were clear with an almost-full moon for some of the nights of the event, which added to the spooky fun ambience! As you enter the grounds, one of the majestic old trees…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign
Even the airport bathroom screams “Paris”! Or so was my thought, after stepping off the plane and into the ladies’ restroom on my first, very long-awaited overseas trip to Europe. I was practically giddy with excitement despite the overnight flight as I waltzed into the ladies’ restroom at the Charles De Gaulle Airport. Having no…
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Charming Old Galena
While taking the long way home after a college visit with my son recently, we stopped for several hours to explore the town of Galena, Illinois. Over 85% of the buildings in Galena are listed in the National Register of Historic Places, which is recognized by the National Park Service: The National Register of Historic Places is the official…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette
“Silhouette” is the Weekly Photo Challenge issued by WordPress this week, with the following explanation: The proper definition of a silhouette is “the outline of a body viewed as circumscribing a mass.” In photography, often we achieve that effect by putting light behind the object whose silhouette we want to capture, effectively darkening out the…
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