rainy city
November 17, 2014
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When you think of rainy places in the United States, Seattle, Portland, New Orleans, the Hawaiian island of Kauai, and the Olympic peninsula come to mind. But when a German city is named Regensburg, one might have certain expectations. And continuing along the Danube, we arrived in the rain, which continued most of our day there. Even in the rain a...
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Travis Webb: Renaissance Man
November 09, 2014
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My husband and I met Travis when he was 17 and taking tango from dance teachers in Taos. He was a great dancer then, and continued to excel far beyond mere mortals. I would call him a natural when it comes to anything physical. But what has happened in the almost nine years since is astonishing. At the age of almost 26, it would be not be an exagge...
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Pausing in Passau
November 03, 2014
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After a weekend full of tango dancing and conversation during the Albuquerque Tango Festival with friends old and new, this blog is a bit delayed. But now, the photographic journey on the Danube continues with the first stop in Germany - Passau.
The sky was overcast. The clouds produced fits and starts of rain, giving us many reasons to pause and...
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food and beverages included
October 26, 2014
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What is culture? Art, buildings, music, dance, language, some might say religion, and the endless imagination of individual human beings responding to their environment. But just as important, and possibly more, is the food that was grown and altered by humans to sustain life. This week's blog is off the subject of cathedrals, government buildings,...
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Melk Abbey
October 18, 2014
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One of the joys of traveling by river is that you are presented an altered view of the land. During a morning trip through the Wachau Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, we watched hectare upon hectare of beautiful, well-established vineyards climbing up the hills on both sides of the Danube (and later on the Rhine River as well). What astounded...
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Gustvav Klimt, art nouveau and the Secession movement
October 12, 2014
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Ah, Vienna. What can I say? Every turn of the corner, every building, every street, a sigh. After the initial panic of knowing I wouldn't be able to do any of it photographic justice, I settled into the mindset that here was a city worthy of much more time, perhaps a lifetime if one had extras to toss around.
After the bus tour into the city centr...
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Bratislava
October 03, 2014
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At first blush of this innocent in Europe, Bratislava, Slovakia seems to be in the blossom of youth. Younger people were everywhere on the streets and seemed to be enjoying the relative freedom of living in an independent Slovakia. In addition to numerous historic buildings floating among massive, cold concrete apartment complexes leftover from the...
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begin at the beginning
September 28, 2014
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For a week I have been pouring over more than a thousand images, analyzing each, and feeling a bit like I did when we arrived in Budapest. The city has so much history and culture that I hardly knew where to start. Instead, I took a breath or two and said (as another woman on the ship said) to myself, "This requires a do-over." I could not begin to...
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Cruising the River Danube
September 21, 2014
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One of the challenges of a fifteen-day trip is digesting the places, people, architecture, colors, smells, and sounds, not to mention food, and pulling these into a cohesive mental picture. For a photographer, the images shot and developed help in the process. So the cruise on the rivers Danube (or Donau), Main, and Rhein begins to take shape in my...
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floating down the river
September 07, 2014
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The photograph below might be familiar to some of you. A red door and an alley. Taken in Brugge, it reflects the city's perpetual charm.
But this is not where I am. As you read, I am in Bratislava, Slovakia, one stop on a river trip my sister and I are taking. We have not had a long trip together since I was entering high school and she was ente...
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Labor Day
September 01, 2014
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My blogs addressing this holiday usually point to the fact that many treat Labor Day as only a holiday without remembering the why, when, and how it came into being. I reiterate that idea because it is almost as important in the current American big business climate as it was in 1887 when it was established by President Grover Cleveland. It was not...
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summer remnants
August 25, 2014
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Despite the fact that a friend from the Phoenix area said his swimming pool temperature is 90 degrees and that is how he knows summer continues, you can feel in the morning air that the seasons above 7,500 feet are on the cusp of change. This morning's collection of summer remnants keeps it in hand just a bit longer. Lettuce and greens love raised...
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the sky looks like rain
August 16, 2014
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Anyone who has lived in the desert or the western United States understands microclimates and has seen rain pouring out of the sky, arroyos running over their randomly established banks while half a mile away, it is dry as bone. We humans are constantly teased by the weather and the sky.
Just as the sun was setting Thursday night, the clouds were...
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