Not Goodbye…. Without a clue how to make an intercontinental relationship work, John and I eased into our first step into doing so, we got engaged his last visit here. Go ahead and play the video. 🙂 Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.
After going to Lurray Caverns and the Car Museum, we decided to head north to home via Skyline Drive. I called from Lurray to see if there was an entrance to the drive from Lurray, I was told there was.
While in Lurray, we visited the Car and Carriage Caravan Museum. The Car and Carriage Caravan Museum exhibit is a tour of milestones in transportation, including authentically restored cars, carriages, coaches and costumes, dating from 1725 to 1941. The centerpiece of the collection is the 1892 Benz, one of the...
***UPDATED*** Lurray Caverns was discovered in 1878, by a photographer. 🙂 Beneath Virginia’s storied Shenandoah Valley, this “must see†U.S. Natural Landmark awaits. One hour tours, (we took two hours) from well-lighted, paved walkways lead visitors through cathedral-sized rooms with ceilings 10 stories high. Enormous chambers are filled with towering...
Despite nature’s best efforts, Ellicott City, which was founded in 1772 as Ellicott Mills, stands today with all the old-country charm of its early days. Preservation is key to the community of Ellicott City, and restoring historic landmarks is something the residents believe in. Indeed, the town itself seems to...
A few times when John has been here we have tried to go to Down’s Park, only to find it closed. This time, we picked an open day. While there, we met a swan… ..and a turtle. We also went to Chelsea Beach. It was nice to have a...
Miranda chose to celebrate her birthday at Laura’s workplace, the Texas Roadhouse.
Never having been to Philadelphia, and John who likes to visit zoos, we combined an outing and went to the Philadelphia Zoo and then decided to see the Liberty Bell in historic Philadelphia. What I did not know was that Philadelphia was home to the FIRST zoo in our country....
Even though the forecast was for showers, we went to the National Zoo in Washington DC. Before we left though, John and Rubi have fun on the comfy chair.
This is John’s 3rd visit to Maryland, and so, his third visit to Baltimore’s Aquarium. He likes it a lot (especially the Australian section). Since it was raining, we had to look for an indoor activity. John I don’t think would ever say no to a visit to the aquarium....
One of the most memorable parts of our last trip to Spain was a visit to Montserrat with Marta and Pepe. Montserrat is a mountain top monastery in Catalonia, Spain. Situated atop an unusual rock mountain, it is very popular among Catalans, and Catholic pilgrims come from far and wide...
It was another beautiful day, and for her last outing, I decided to take Georgie to Annapolis. Then we decided to take a Harbor Cruise! Yet something else I had never done! Once on the boat, we got to see the Naval Academy, the Bridges over the Severn, and the...
Naturally one of the places I had to take Georgie was downtown Baltimore and its Harbor. We lunched at Phillips Seafood and had some of their award winning crab cakes. Georgie liked both the crab cakes and the local beer. The dessert cart looked good, but we were stuffed. Georgie...
This is my favorite time of year. Autumn is so crisp, warm, and colorful in Maryland. After running some errands this morning, I asked Laura if she felt like a walk. We both grabbed our Uggs and our cameras and walked around the neighborhood.
Last night in Perth It’s weird…you know the end of something great is coming, but you want to hold on, just for one more second…just so it can hurt a little more. After a day waking up early taking fog photos, then shopping at the mall, going to Hillary’s, we...
After a very chill day at the chocolate factory, and later some shopping at Hillary’s, John and I went out to photograph Perth at night.
I’ve seen a lot of sunsets before and I’ve seen a lot before, but for me, this was the best sunset ever. Driving from Fremantle to Perth up the Indian Ocean Coast.
Continuing from the theme of our visit to Caversham Wildlife Park yesterday, here I will show you the animals they have there as well as the kangaroos and koalas I posted yesterday! Our visit to the wildlife park was amazing, seeing Laura pet a kangaroo and koalas was worth the...
When celebrities pass away, you feel a sense of loss for their talent, but it rarely hits us hard. Laura and her friends though had quite a while talking about the passing of Heath Ledger. So after our visit to Perth and London Court, we took Laura to Karrakatta Cemetery...
By now most know that Laura and I left THURSDAY from Maryland to go to Australia. As I blog this, we have JUST arrived in Melbourne, Australia, and it’s SATURDAY. We don’t know what happened to Friday. Our flight from BWI to LAX had some events. One long patch of...
After visiting the ships at the Harbor, we strolled around Baltimore Harbor in the evening….
The Santa Maria was a small nao, about 70Â feet long, used as the flagship for the expedition for Christopher Columbus in 1492. She carried 40 men. Interest in reconstructing the Taylor Santa MarÃa started in the 1890s for the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s voyage. The 1892 reconstruction depicted the ship...
On my birthday 1992, we went to the Baltimore Harbor and the Science center. Here is a clip of video of our day. Enric and Miquel were so young!
Taking another trip down memory lane…. Well, still looking at home movies. Only this time it was my sister’s home movies! This came to be because one year for Christmas, I did a lot of homemade gifts. I found my sister’s old home movies, you know, the kind that requires...
Miranda took Rubi to the doctors today and she is doing great and gained 14 ounces! Rubi is a good baby, she still sleeps at night, except late nights, when she likes to keep mommy up late. She still is so strong, and likes to hold her head up and...
And she received a happy and anxious welcome from us all! Solutions Fabricating sent a balloon and flowers! I was so happy to hold and love her!
Wednesday, Miranda, Laura, and I took Silas and Cameron to the zoo in DC. The National Zoo in DC is a wonder, I never get to see all I want in one visit. A gallery of all the photos taken of the extraordinary collection of animals is here » DC...
The Skyline Drive runs 105 miles north and south along the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Shenandoah National Park and is the only public road through the Park. It takes about three hours to travel the entire length of the Park on a clear day.
It was time to take John to Dulles Airport, and since it was kind of far from home, Enric and Silas went with me. To make a sad trip a little more fun, we stopped into the Dulles section of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. I had been to...
Silas sat on my lap today we and had loads of fun in front of the web cam. It was definitely giggles and good times!
Going through my old photos, I found this photo taken of me long ago. Obviously I was in the middle of some computer issues. What a blast from the past, as if I remember right, this my very FIRST computer, a Packard Bell 486 Windows 3.11. Does anyone remember this...
I was sitting in the hotel room talking to John when my cell phone rang. It was the girls saying, “You need to hurry to the pier! The waves are hitting it!” The pier at Ocean City is reserved for amusement rides close to the boardwalk, and further into the...
We got a wonderful invitation from Jenny’s mom and dad to go to Ocean City. We left today. Traffic on the Bay Bridge was strangely busy. But once through we were here in no time! The view straight out from our hotel. Our hotel is very close to the Kite...
Out of the two dozen or so pics taken with the webcam, I think I found two where John wasn’t making a face or something funny. He is modeling one of the birthday presents I gave him, A Beatles shirt. Ice cream cake!
“The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind.” – Maria Cristina Mena Sometimes, it’s hard to see a future. So, I go looking into the past at times. Photos from years ago can be comforting… These days, Enric can sit down...
I’ve been celebrating my 28th (thanks BruB) birthday this weekend, and as with each year, it’s always very special. I received a lovely gold chain plucked right off my amazon wish list from John (or who we very affectionately call Mr. Dolphin around here), to get the birthday started early,...
Dawn, and just me and a lonely cardinalPlay out our songs for God to hearIn the spare air the bird twittersI, in my chair stretch my witsWe each sit, the bird on a branchAnd I, leaning in the Lazy BoyThe day lies before us like an unwritten scoreor a scroll...
If you should ever get around a group of my old friends, undoubtably along with a few other stories about me, would surface quite a few regarding my affection for pop tarts. They could tell you about the time I went to my uncles and even though they offered me...
