Compared to the Pac NW, the east coast summer is a tropical experience: it is hot and muggy with the occasional rain shower which all contributes to a lush green woodland with oaks and maples, beeches, hickories, chestnuts, sassafras... and all draped in wild grape and Virginia creeper... The air is... Sign in to see full entry.
I am trying to come up with a sheet of biographical material which some stores and galleries require along with submissions of work. I've been struggling a bit with it, not sure what anyone is really going to want to know. I would appreciate opinions on this: have I covered the ground sufficiently?... Sign in to see full entry.
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If you've been reading here now and then, you may know that one of my daughters lives in Singapore. My other daughter, the one with the 5 year old daughter, and the man of her heart are going to visit the one in Singa next month. This has been planned for a while, dreamed of for even longer.... Sign in to see full entry.
The Palouse Hills are a landform created by windblown glacial silts that have, over the ages, covered the volcanic surface of the land in several hundred feet of wonderfully fine topsoil. Many of these hills and hollows are etched with ploughed furrows, brown, green, yellow and gold. The colors pass... Sign in to see full entry.
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This is some kind of kingfisher, one of the first birds that caught my attention--and vice versa--in the Central Park Zoo aviary. But I don't know which of the 90 varieties of kingfisher it is--if anyone does, please let me know! This is the largest of pigeons, since the extinction of the dodo,... Sign in to see full entry.
Mom has always been a very practical person, not given to the making of jokes though she has always enjoyed a good one. When Dad and I punned around her, she just laughed and got on with business. In fact, I can't ever remember her telling jokes. All the same, she had her moments... My Dad, as I... Sign in to see full entry.
This is a Freemason Temple on the Upper West Side of Manhattan I think this is the best shot of my 4 days in New York. Sign in to see full entry.
This city that has been building since the 1600s is the historical architect's dreamland. I love the fanciful, beautiful and sometimes grotesque ornamentation of the buildings. I spent most of this trip strolling between the Upper West Side and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on the eastern edge of... Sign in to see full entry.