Category Travel
Thursday Night Lights
At times life can be a learning experience. I’m not happy with the fireworks pictures I took in Old Orchard Beach earlier this month. I opted not to bring my camera with me on vacation. The phone I bought last fall is reputed to take great photos, and it isn’t as if I expected to […]
Googin’s Rocks 2023 – II
Today some more photos of Googin’s Rocks taken on my first walk along Old Orchard Beach on my summer vacation this year.
Googin’s Rocks 2023 – I
There’s something about them that draws people. Possibly it is the way they break up the smoothness of a seven mile beach. I have written before about the history of Googins Rocks, so I won’t repeat myself. The rocks more or less mark the boundary between the Maine vacation communities of Ocean Park and Old […]
Snake in The Sand
I didn’t have my phone with me at the beach. On vacation I really do decouple from my electronics. So by the time I snapped pictures of this snake the sun had done its work and the sand sculpture was nowhere near as impressive as it had been several hours beforehand. Making one of these […]
Mr. Sandman
I have no artistic talent. My stick-figure drawings don’t even look like stick figures. When I was a child, my attempts at sand castles never caused people on the beach to stop and admire. And rightly so. They were underwhelming at best. Which is why I am impressed when I see people who can look […]
The Sunrise Sequence
I first posted these in August 2015. I try to catch at least one sunrise every year when we visit Old Orchard Beach, Maine. The photos let you see the sun slowly rising over the Atlantic Ocean. Later this month I’ll show some of the several sunrises I watched on this year’s vacation
Taking Flight – III
As we headed into the van for our hour-long balloon ride over Cappadocia, my friend Mike asked “so how much does this cost?” I told him we had a discount – 150 Euros each. The look on his face said it all. He doesn’t have my stinginess, but he’s not a spendthrift either. I could […]
Taking Flight – II
Cappadocia is one of the top three places on the planet to go for a hot air balloon ride, or so I have been told (the others, if you were wondering are the pyramids in Egypt and the Loire Valley in France). And for very good reason – the view is spectacular. I had never […]
Taking Flight – I
I always say that I haven’t been anywhere. I have visi- ted around 20 countries, but in my family that isn’t very many – I think my two-year-old grandson has been to ten already. One of my favorites was a trip to Turkey, especially Cappadocia, in 2014. With that in mind, for the next three […]
People Are Complicated
I have to admit, I’d never heard of it before. But it was one of the highlights of the month spent in Europe in the summer of 2014 – and helped inspire the creation of this blog. The broken camera made absolutely no sense to me; or to Vivian for that matter. Why would a […]
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