2025: Marie’s Highlights, Photographic and Otherwise
Every year has its highs and lows and 2025 was no exception. This was our first full year of semi-retirement, enabling us » Read more
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2024 Highlights (with Marie’s photographic bests)
2024 was a whale of a year! By any measure, it was a momentous year, in which we semi-retired after 33 years » Read more
Amazing Argentina-September 2024 ((Part 1-Beguiling Buenos Aires)
Thursday, September 12-Saturday, September 14, 2024 What possesses someone to enter, REPEATEDLY, 50 degree F water in a wetsuit? (That’s 10 degrees » Read more
Marie’s favorite images of 2023
I always love when the New York Times comes out in December with the “Best of ” lists, particularly of films. Our » Read more
2022 Highlights
As 2022 unfurled, we adapted to the realities of coronavirus endemicity. This was the year of make up trips (not 1, not » Read more
Namibia, June 2022 (Part 4: Walvis Bay)
Martin Bailey bills this photographic expedition as his Complete Namibia Tour and it is indeed comprehensive and very well organized. One week » Read more
2021 Highlights
2021 was another doozy of a pandemic year. Pandemic year 2 started off well, Stump having being turned out decisively in November » Read more
Paris pendant la pandémie: November 2021
My feet were the only part of me not sad about leaving Paris. Over 9 days, we covered many miles on foot, » Read more
New York: Springboard to Paris (November-December 2021)
Friday, November 19, 2021 Today was a travel day, on Jetblue from San Diego to NYC, the first day of 3+ weeks » Read more
Methow Valley, NYC and Berkshires (June-July 2021)-Part 2, NYC
After a wonderful long weekend in the Methow Valley mountain biking with Dave, we were off to NYC. We were lucky with » Read more