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Travel Dreamstate
I just returned from a family reunion, which was terrific – I was an adult before I met this segment of family and I so enjoy them. But that is another story (partly told in my novel Scar Jewelry)....
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An Ode to Repetition
On one level, I hate routine. I’ve made important life decisions based on a futile attempt to avoid repetition. Changes of jobs, homes, cities – and probably relationships. I have to fight feeling...
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Too Close? Or Just Close Enough?
Summer in Chicago. The sculpture is Cloud Gate by Anish Kapoor. The same view, under scrutiny… See me? I’m in the middle of the bright bottommost triangle, head titled to my right. To my left is a tall...
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Froth and Flow
Incoming surf overtops a sinuous retaining wall. (Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)
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Decorative Graffiti
I want my garage doors to look like these! (Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)
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Alligator Bubbles
Everywhere in Florida there are Beware of Alligators warning signs but after several trips to Florida with no ‘gator sightings, I was despondent. So the family took us to a long walkway inserted into...
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Manhattan, Very Early
Last year I got to take my kids to New York for a few days. Our return flight was early one morning. I love this shot of my son – up way before his body clock would usually allow – taking in his last...
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Staycations Away From Home
My favorite kind of traveling is to plant myself somewhere new and stay for a while, to get a sense of what it would be like to live there. I’m not drawn to monuments or tourist meccas, even though I...
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The View From High and Far
I can stare at a city view for hours, studying the structure, sensing the underlying chaos, sensing the history and the stories, hearing faint distant sirens and that lowgrade perpetual hum that comes...
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I Had Better Get Busy
My “desert island” food is the blueberry. My “desert island” place is the ocean. Which proves convenient: I don’t have to bring my favorite place with me to the desert island, it will already surround...
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Can You Guess Where I Am?
I’ve left my home in California to attend a family reunion in one of the other States of the U.S. Another State and another state! I’m definitely not in California anymore. Now I’m wondering whether...
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Unexpected Benefit of a Gator Quest
(The WP Weekly Photo Challenge asked to see a horizon.) On my occasional trips to Florida to see family, I have been repeatedly disappointed in efforts to spot alligators out in the open (not planted...
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Sinkhole to the Horizon
(The WP Weekly Photo Challenge wants to see horizons.) I’m a disaster junkie. Natural disasters amaze me. I hate it when people get hurt, but the forces of nature that create the disasters leave me...
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Among Many, A Search for One
The Gulf Coast of Florida (and surely, many other locations) has beaches where fossil shark teeth are abundant. My young nephews collect pails full of them! (That is my idea of a fun vacation: planted...
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Critters, Co-Existing
I love to discover creatures who are not pets in the spaces that humans pretend to claim – although the experience is always bittersweet, because it reminds me of how invasive my species can be....
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Home Is Where The Thoughts Stay
What I see this morning as I write this. I love meeting new places, and so I am excited to be heading out for a week of work-related travel; however, there’s a part of me that never wants to leave...
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Angles Over Water
At a family reunion in Punta Gorda, Florida, I saw a highway bridge that crosses the Peace River amidst docks and piers. I loved the symmetries and intricacy of the angles. Here is a pier’s eye view of...
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PhotoTravelog: From Waikiki to Diamond Head, Oahu, Hawaii
There are a lot of great scenes waiting for cameras in Hawaii as I learned when I visited the Hawaiian island of Oahu for the first time. I made the trip for work, so I spent most of my time at the...
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PhotoTravelog: Escape from Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii
Until a couple weeks ago, I had never been to Hawaii, which has always seemed terribly wrong, given that volcanoes and oceans are two of my favorite things. Also, I love that Hawaiian slack key guitar...
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Travelog: Cities With Snow
Long time ago, I had a boyfriend stuck in Michigan one winter and when he went outside one morning, it had been so cold that his car tires had frozen square. That is so. Awesome. For this southern...
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