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When I posted a few images on social media about my trip to Toronto last September, I got great suggestions like “I hope you visit Kensington Market or the Distillery District.” They sounded terrific but my trip had a different focus. I was on an Abstract Architecture Photography Tour with...
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...
This was originally posted June 2015. I’ll long remember architecture and ornamentation in Bhutan. Most notable to me is the consistency. It’s not surprising since the country was isolated from the outside world until until the 1970s. Only slowly are influences of the...
It was kinda weird thing to do. We went to to Chicago for a weekend. Instead of visiting Chicago Art Museums we headed up the coast of Lake Michigan to check out the Milwaukee Art Museum. I’m so glad we did. It was a wow. This DesignDestinations.org post was originally...
Do you love to visit Chicago? Like Architecture? If you say yes to both questions, I have a new DesignDestination for you. The brand spanking new Chicago Architecture Center located right by the Michigan Avenue Bridge over the Chicago River needs to be on your list to places to visit....
I have a friend who made it a goal to go to the 100 best golf courses in the world. He spent several years tracking them all down and enjoying their delights. I always thought this was a fun approach to travel. So, I’ve decided I to create my own travel challenge to visit all 20 […]
by Peggy DePersia, Guest Blogger “East side, west side, all around the town”……………”Stop, hey, what’s that sound, everybody look what’s going down”. Song lyrics have a way of revisiting new eras, often unpredictably. As my husband, Jerry, and I drove around the streets of the city in which...
Cuba Will Break your Heart I don’t typically write about decline and decay. I’m interested in new, cutting edge, historic, artistic, interesting, creative, stimulating and yadayada. If you follow my weekly blog you know. Sure some times guest bloggers jump in there to write about fording...
When I mentioned to friends that I’d be going to Palm Springs—a hot spot for everything cool— to attend Modernism Week events with a long time and special friend who lives there, the reactions were interesting. Some people’s eyes would light up. “Oh, lucky you,” would be the comment. I know...
If you haven’t been to Eataly in Chicago….hmmmm….you are missing out! Do put it on your list of places to visit in the Windy City. What is it? Eataly Chicago and it’s sister in New York are ALL things Italian. Like really yummy tasty stuff. The huge two story castle of consumption just off...