November 29, 2008 – 11:08 am
About 4 years ago, Chris and I went to Paris together. There are a couple of places that we had both been to but not together. At the time, Paris was one of them. While there, we did some of the customary tourist stuff but mostly sat in cafes and restaurants and watched the city [...]
November 22, 2008 – 3:18 am
Like last week’s Photo Hunter, this picture is also from St Andrews, Scotland. The bench and the building belong to the Royal and Ancient Golf Glub of St Andrews (R&A). It sits directly behind the first tee of the Old Course. The window above the bench shows the reflection of a setting sun over the [...]
November 15, 2008 – 2:02 am
The St Andrews Castle was fortified around 1100 and a hundred years later it became the home of the bishops and archbishops of St Andrews. The Castle saw little in the way of encroachment from foreign lands but it was front and center during the Reformation in the mid-1500s. Cardinal Beaton, who lived at the [...]
November 12, 2008 – 1:01 am
Kerby Brown has to be certifiable crazy. He’s the Australian surfer who went out to a top-secret reef in order to obtain fame and fortune. Or at least notoriety. This week’s Photo of the Week is of Brown riding a 41 foot monster wave just before he wiped out and nearly killed himself. When the [...]
November 8, 2008 – 11:41 am
One of my favorite words and the thought that it provokes is together. Always my first thought is my wonderful and lovely bride, Chris. But for us, together means family and friends and we always have an abundance of them around. It is truly the greatest gift. I am still scanning hundreds and hundreds of [...]
November 1, 2008 – 1:01 am
I love NYC, not as much as Christine but I do love it. I think New York, for me, would be behind, Edinburgh, Boston, London, San Francisco, um…um…and then New York. I say that, tongue firmly in cheek, because of the Boston/New York sports rivalries. But there you have it.
October 25, 2008 – 2:01 am
This week’s Photo Hunter theme is scary. Christine and I live nearby to the Boston headquarters for the Church, and I use that word loosely, of Scientology. For awhile, in the spring and summer, it seemed like there were bi-weekly demonstrations in front of the “Church.” The group that is protesting is a group [...]