Recreation Category

Languor management

If there is one perfect place for a cool summer, in every sense, it has to be Cape Cod. On the Cape, there is a very long cold, almost dormant season and then, suddenly, summer comes running and everything springs to life again. In fact, I consider it my number one destination in the US. It has everything […]

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On pines and needles

This post is really just a place holder so that I can keep to my regular schedule. Not that I haven’t thought it through, I have and there is a reason to put it up here. But, I am working on my summer travel post and, as usual, it is taking up a lot of […]

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Color me Barbara

Whenever I visit or revisit a place, especially for the second or third time, I try to develop a living persona for that spot.  Something I can consider three-dimensionally and five-sensorally too, alive and in high def.  So far, my photographic sojourns have been about rediscovering California, especially the southern half, and embracing it. Coming […]

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Alas, through the looking glass

Look out what you wish for. This is the latest chapter in my ongoing love affair with my Nikon camera.  It seems none of my passions are of my own choosing. They come seeking me out. Like Alice, when I am smitten with a project, I fall through some aperture and find myself in a wonderland of […]

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