European Escape (Part 4, Paris, July 2025)
Friday, July 18, 2025 Paris is always right, even in summer. After a wonderful two weeks in northern Italy, divided between Milan, » Read more
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European Escape (Part 3, Verona, July 2025)
The northern Italian city of Verona is inextricably associated with the legend of Romeo and Juliet, the “star-crossed” lovers immortalized by Shakespeare. » Read more
European Escape (Part 2, Dolomites, July 2025)
Monday, July 7, 2025 At last we were off to the Dolomites! We had enjoyed our too-short introduction to Milan, but now » Read more
European Escape (Part 1: Milan, July 2025)
A month in Europe, away from construction dust and plastic walls at home in San Diego, as well as new adventures in » Read more
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
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
Aerial photography from around the world – by Steve
For many iconic landscape photographs, an experienced photographer and traveler knows exactly where the tripod was placed. True artistry comes into play » 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
Eyes Wide Open: Looking at 2019
2019 was an active, hectic, and stressful year. The simmering concerns I had been harboring in recent years about my mother’s living » Read more