Rugs and Chandeliers in the Middle East
If you visit the Grand Mosques in the Middle East you want to look up and look down. Why? To marvel at the...
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Revisiting the Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris
  When we were in Paris in the spring and mentioned to Parisians that we encountered that we planned to spend a...
Photographing the Goat Market in Nizwa, Oman
AS I put my Olympus viewfinder up to my eye, I had to move a bit to the left to avoid an elbow and then, oops,...
Exploring the Arctic Circle
This is a blog post about a wonderful trip to Norway in 2012.  Enjoy. I am revisiting posts about favorite...
Vasa Museum–a “must-see” in Stockholm
Visit the Vasa Museum in Stockholm.  You won’t be sorry you did. Going to Stockholm and...
Encounters with children in Oman
I found encounters with children on the photo trip I took to Oman in Feb. 2020 to be especially poignant. We...
Going to Chicago to see the Calatrava in Milwaukee
It was kinda weird thing to do. We went to  to Chicago for a weekend.  Instead of visiting Chicago Art Museums...
A brief visit in Musandam, Oman
If you have never heard of Musandam, you are not alone. Very few people even knew what I was talking about when I...
Public Art Heals in Grand Rapids, Michigan
 Does art have the power to heal, to inspire, to provoke, to challenge, to offer hope? Apparently some people in...