While Thomas Jefferson soaked in Hot Springs VA, George Washington did it in Berkeley Springs WV. In Berkeley Springs there are five warm mineral springs within a couple 100 yards of each other, located mostly at the Berekley Springs State Park. The Native Americans were the first to use the springs for their curative properties. […]
____________Shadow Shot Sunday
The first thing I shot when we got to the city was a row of window washers cleaning a building that was part of the D.C. skyline. At the White House, I was stunned to see that peace activist Concepcion Picciotto is still protesting nuclear arms across from the White House. I met her in the […]
My favorite room in the exhibit on WONDER at the Renwick Gallery in D.C. is one by Boston artist Janet Echelman. Her installation creation draws from the maps of energy released during the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami and features a woven sculpture and changing lights that, together, create a fantasy sail boating effect. Even the […]
Willow branch weaving by Patrick Dougherty, one of the artists that created room installations expressing WONDER for the re-opening of the Renwick Gallery in D.C. _____Shadow Shot Sunday
The first time I visited Charleston, SC, was about 12 years ago when Joe and I were on our way to camp on the beach of St. Augustine, Florida. It was raining pretty hard and we only stayed about an hour. We visited Battery Park and the historic City Market and vowed to come back. […]
I appreciate New Orleans jazz and a big brass band sound, but I’m more of a rock and roller at heart. I grew up loving Motown, singer songwriter folksongs, psychedelic rock, Led Zeppelin and the rest. I like some funk, rhythm and blues and am a fan of all the great lead guitarists. While staying […]
Weddings tend to find me and I’m not too shy to crash them, whether on the beach in my hometown of Hull MA, while shopping at the Harvest Moon in Floyd or stopping at a pub in Ireland that just happened to be the set of the BBC series Ballykissangel where a real life wedding […]
I just got finished posting about how happy I was to be in New Orleans when there was no Mardi Gras going on because I thought it would be too overwhelming and was probably overrated like Times Square on New Year’s Eve. The day after typing that we took a trolley and shuttle to Mardi […]
While in New Orleans, we stayed in the French Quarter at the Lamothe House, a Victorian hotel tucked in between old oak trees and within walking distance of Frenchman Street Jazz Clubs and the French Market. The Lamoth House was built by a wealthy sugar cane plantation owner in 1839, with renovation improvements taking place […]
We got the historic horse and buggy tour of the French Quarter and learned that Bourbon Street is not named after liquor but after a famous French family. Our guide talked while reining her horse about the Creole and Cajun traditions, pecans and pralines (pecan candy) and how po boys were invented here. She told […]
They might have named Fairhope “Utopia” because that was what its creators had in mind when they designed it around the turn of the twentieth century. Situated along the shores of Mobile Bay, the Alabama town was founded as a colony by a group following economist Henry George for the purpose of “establishing and conducting […]
