For the ten years I lived in Mexico City, I must have visited Teotihuacán at least once every one of them. It was an easy bus trip, so my sidekick…
You know when you’ve reached a particular epoch in your life when your early photos start to become historically significant, as in “that picture can’t be taken any more”. Actually,…
Part of Russia’s magnificent Baltic-Volga Waterway is vast Lake Onega in the Karelia Republic, the second largest lake in Europe. When cruising the Waterway on the Svir river the dramatic…
Don’t get me wrong – I’m glad we have government, whether we deserve it or not. Sometimes it just seems a little daunting, that’s all. By the way, this is…
Mannequins in store windows can be a lot of fun. Generally, someone with good taste and/or specific training has already done the job of art directing for you, and all…
At about 5:00 AM on the fifth day (or so) of our cruise down the Danube for Viking River Cruises, our boat had pulled along side the quay in Belgrade,…
We only had a couple of days to take advantage of whatever Belgrade had to offer and those two days were during one of those scorching heat waves that Europe…
I’ve come across the titular phrase above various times when researching Copenhagen and finally discovered that it came from a song sung by Danny Kaye in the film “Hans Christian…
I can never tire of looking at old photos or, for that matter, old art, especially the kind that was created for commercial or illustration purposes. There is so much…
In my last post I included a photo of an old car in a sloppy field of mud, obviously abandoned, in Prairie, Idaho. It brought to mind a few other…
