Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape

Beauty of mountains
Brings peace to mind and soul
I yearn to be there

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Train-ing

A scimitar moon hangs in the blue-black sky as I drive home. A train passes silently along the tracks, silently because I’m cocooned in the van. Lights shine from inside the cars, warming the night, and although it’s merely a commuter train, it plucks memories from my heart, memories of trips to visit my grandparents in California.

Flora in Philly

Spent a lovely day in Philadelphia today with a friend as I wait for the school year to be over and to head back to the Midwest with our younger daughter. The sun was shining and the plants were jumping into spring…finally. Come enjoy a few of the spring sights with me.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Change

This is where I change each year from someone with a daily routine and responsibilities
to a relaxed and renewed person who has time to think.

Art of the Himalayas

After we disembarked from our train Saturday afternoon in New York’s Penn Station, my sister-in-law and our daughter took off to participate in a Haitian dance class, not something for Bill and me.  Instead, we started our afternoon walking through the Rubin Museum of Art, where Himalayan art is the focus.  As my sister-in-law pointed out, the museum is a small jewel at 150 W. 17th Street.  Take a few minutes and enjoy a few of the art objects that caught my eye and camera.  If you live in the New York area, stop by soon for a visit.  You won’t be disappointed.

Family, food and fun in Philly

Something old, something new

I’ve driven the Chicago-Cleveland (or Cleveland-Chicago) route many times in the last years but still, once I get in the van and on the road, I settle down and enjoy the ride.  There’s always something new to see and plenty old favorites.  Join me for a very compressed, selective six hours.

Sunset–moonrise…cosmic balancing act

When I saw the sunset on the way back tonight, I had to find a place to pull (safely) off the highway and take a picture!  I drove on, but as the sun set, the moon rose in a cosmic balancing act on the opposite side.  Once again, I had to pull off, but the location wasn’t the best and the iPad couldn’t get a shot that did the moon justice.

More or les

A little humor to end your week and start the weekend. This is a postcard of my favorite tombstone in Boot Hill, the cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, the town where Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Virgil and Morgan Earp faced the Clantons and the McLaurys in the gunfight at the OK Corral.

A van with a view

Here are a few pictures from my trip back from Philadelphia to Cleveland…