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V is for… Vesuvius

Mount Vesuvius sits just 9 km outside Naples, glowering imposingly over all around. It is still active and experts believe a massive eruption is due some time soon.  History has […]

Wright Angles

Frank Lloyd Wright was a romantic with an emotional reaction to architecture and the environment, explaining that “when organic architecture is properly carried out no landscape is ever outraged by […]

Tarragonan Trompe l’Oeil

At first glance, you may notice nothing strange about these doors and windows in La Plaça dels Sedassos in Tarragona: In fact, they are all painted on a flat wall, with the perspectives […]

Making Trails through the Arizona Desert

Set in 320 acres of stunning Northern Arizona desert, stands the family-run dude ranch, Stagecoach Trails. I have spent two great holidays here already, and will, undoubtedly, return.  There are many things that […]

In the Background

Watching the big screen at Times Square is always entertaining. . Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge: In the Background.

Face in the Rocks

The face of the famous Tunisian poet, Abdulkacem Chebbi, gazes down from the Belvedere Rocks just south of the Route Touristique in Tozeur. Too much landscaping, including the building of a golf course,  has detracted […]