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I was really curious about Bayfield, Wisconsin when I signed up for a photography workshop there. What would it be like? I knew nothing. Since we were curious we added some days to explore the very northern resort area. It reminded me a bit of Northern Lower Michigan—an area with charming...
During the last year I have enjoyed exploring different photography genres. In March I loved time in the Scottish Highlands learning about landscape photography and before that I exhausted myself doing a Chicago Abstract Architecture Photography workshop. Exhausted because we walked 20,000...
Cabo San Lucas, a friendly and fun resort area on the very tip of the Baja in Mexico is one of those places people like me who live in Michigan and endure long cold winters, crave to visit the end of March and in April. We are so anxious to see and feel sunlight and […]
Cock-a-doodle-doo! The mystifying reality of waking to a crowing rooster ‘in town’. By Peggy DePersia, guest blogger, OK. So, you’ve visited ‘The Hemingway House’, toured the Truman (southern) White House, traveled the historic district’s distinctive island architecture via the open air conch...
People have been telling me for years that I should visit Sedona, a small town north of Phoenix. I heard it enough that when the opportunity came up on our western trip, I grabbed it. For a variety of reasons, we found ourselves leaving Phoenix around 6 pm. The sunset was beautiful, but...
by Judy Bereza, Guest Blogger You’re going to Mexico during Covid?” I can understand the question, and I have to admit there was some trepidation. But this family trip had been postponed for two years, the special circumstances are openly addressed and we were determined....
I love New York. I’ve been saying that for years. From my first trip as college seniors when Jack told his parents we were getting engaged in some long forgotten Greenwich Village restaurant to recently when we took our 10 year old Grand Daughter to the Big Apple for five days. I have a lot...
One of the really fun things about doing a travel blog is reliving the trip as I go through images and figure out what to share about the experience. That is certainly true of the trip to NYC in December. As the Omicron virus gets more and more headlines for how contagious it is, […]
As the headlines scream the bad news about the Omicron virus and its impact on our lives, I feel grateful that I had a chance to go to New York City with my husband and 10-year-old grand daughter in early December. At that point, the city was opening up while observing strict rules about...
In the western world we all know the song, Deck the Halls with Bows of Holly.” It is a standard at the holiday time. Well, increasingly it isn’t bows of holly that grace our homes. We plaster them with lights and lights and more lights. Some of these lighting installations have...