Independence Day
Reston, Virginia, USA Click here to share or send a greeting with this image. Every Fourth of July the residents around the lakes in northern Virginia celebrate the national day with spontaneous fireworks displays. Everyone who owns a boat or a floating dock or “deck boat” embarks with tiki torches lit and a boat full […]
Noplace to Park
Santorini, Greece Click here to share or send a greeting with this image. July on Santorini, Greece. It is hot — very hot. Near 100 degrees or more. The humidity feels like about 200 percent. The blazing summer sun here is so hot that evaporation from the sea is actually visible. The haze that obscures […]
Unspoiled
Winchester, Virginia, USA Click here to share or send a greeting with this image. Having stayed overnight in Winchester, Virginia, we decided to spend the afternoon visiting the nearby Museum of the Shenandoah. The afternoon threatened bad weather with heavy clouds and thunderstorms in the area, but we decided to press on. With storm clouds […]
Arriving
Petra, Jordan Click here to share this image. I always wanted to go there. I wanted to take this photo from the first time I saw one like it. This is Petra. Iconic star of tourism posters for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, burial ground and former capital of the Biblical kingdom of Nabatea, visual […]
Sun, Sea, and Boats
Kralendijk, Bonaire N.A. Click here to share or send a greeting with this image. Nancy and I had gone with some friends on a diving holiday at Bonaire, the divers’ “Mecca” in the southern Caribbean. After two dives each day (sometimes three), our habit was to return to our lodgings, clean and hang the dive […]
