Crepes in Quebec in Autumn
Warm nutella in a delicate crepe leaves little to be desired. Especially when eaten in a 17th century structure next door to the Chateau Frontenac in the forti...
Category: TRAVEL
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Take a Guess at Where I am Standing.
I look up from my food stand burrito to see bright yellow river taxis, jet skiers playing in the wake of the brighter orange Staten Island ferry, crazy kayakers...
NYC with dear friends
Last year we had a reunion in Maine, where I lived at the time: http://heatherpaiges.blogspot.com/2010/02/lovely-friends.html. This year we selected NYC, so I w...
Alice Austen’s House
It looks like a doll house- with carpentry like lace lining its dormers and gables, diamond-pained glass, and stout chimney- sitting in the grass where an 8 yea...
Renewed. Historic. Serene.
I wrote of my visit to Princeton and its local orchard last fall, but O, let me talk now of spring! Finally, after a long snowy winter, the foliage is again thi...
Family Vacation
The Denver Post published this picture the week we were in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. As we rode up and up the lift, the balloon appeared to go down and down ...
As you can see, I really enjoyed Middleton Place Plantation.
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I promised some pictures of Charleston and Savannah, so here are a few of the few that we took.
Ice cream in Savannah because it was Blue Bell. Even though it was cold, we were so excited about seeing Blue Bell ice cream (which you can’t find up north) tha...
Back to the Big Apple
Well, I came back to a 65-degree-New York (I could literally watch the snow melt) and mouse poop. Yes, almost every drawer in my kitchen was decorated with unbe...
Bed & Breakfast
BED: BREAKFAST: AND THE PARLOR: of Park Avenue Manor, my and Chris’ uncle’s spectacular Bed & Breakfast Inn in Savannah, Georgia. If you are ever vacationin...
A Look at Historic Charleston
Yesterday, I toured 18th and 19th century mansions in downtown Charleston. Then today, I toured Middleton Place, an 18th century rice plantation. The gardens ar...
>Low Country Oyster Fest 2011
> Yesterday, we joined the masses at the World’s Biggest Oyster Roast on 350-year-old Boone Hall Plantation near Charleston. The oysters were steamed then...
The beach by the lighthouse
I’m standing in the sand between Charleston Harbor and miles of yellow grass growing in shallow water that sparkles in the afternoon sun. The sea is calm at its...
Apple Cider Donuts
Our history buff and battle reenacting friends, Annie and Jay took us to the Monmouth Battlefield in New Jersey where Washington and Howe clashed and stalemated...
FM
We drove to Western New Jersey where the October hills are covered with a patchwork quilt of heathered red, orange, yellow, and green fabrics. We wound down cou...
Still in Boston. Still Spring.
>Sitting in a park in Boston.left: old brick wharfright: extension of soft grass under mestraight ahead: rows of Easter-colored tulipsbeyond tulips: teenage ...
Boston in the Spring
>I drove down Storrow Drive during the part of the day when the sun is so big that it can barely be eclipsed by a beach ball. Across the Charles River, the M...
Spring in Manhattan
Most would leave Manhattan to see the spring, but I wanted to go to Manhattan. The contrast of the lively cherry blossoms against the steel and concrete intrigu...
It’s snowing white petals in the streets of Manhattan
>I rode the Fung Wah bus into Chinatown and stayed with Brian Stout in his “cozy little money-sucking fire hazard” (Manhattan Apt.). Every tree-lined sidewal...
Lovely Friends
Oh wow. What gifts friends are. And how loving my lovely gifts happen to be. Rachel, Dana, and Laura all flew up here at the same time! I picked them up in Bost...
Morning Drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway
My Jetta and I drove from Florida to Maine two wks ago. I would call it a life-experience. I entered the Appalachian Mntns the 2nd morning. I appropriately turn...
Savannah just became one of my favorite cities.
> The history of the colony is layered upon layer and the beauty of the historic district is unrivaled! The town has 23 grassy squares. Most feature a monume...
The oldest city in the U.S., a college, a fort, and another fort
> We drove down a barrier island to a place that really didn’t feel like America. St. Augustine, founded in 1565, is the oldest port in the U.S. Spanish arc...
>”Don’t Feed the Alligators.”
What a welcoming sign What an interesting area. As I drove through Seminole Park, I felt like Christopher Reeves felt in “Somewhere in Time” when he crossed fro...
Temporarily Floridian
> Florida is warm and humid. Not that I expected it to be any different. Glad it’s not hurricane season. Jaguars football game last week. Woohoo. Casting Cr...
Dormant Sugar Maples to Vivacious Palm Trees
Chris and I fell asleep to the Christmas-tree-topper Chrysler building standing outside Brian’s window at 37th and Lexington. I have labeled his 80 yr. old f...
rainy rucky rugby and the american revolution
>And today, Chris played a rugby game in Boston. Do you know the history of rugby? It started in a soccer match at Rugby Boarding School in England in 1823. ...
Harvest Festival and other festivities
> Saturday Chris and I and two of our New Yorker friends went to a Harvest Festival in Old York Village. People get so much more into the seasons up here- it...
mud on the tires
We drove the truck down a dirty dirt/rock road in the mountains for several miles at 40 mins till dusk. We were feeling pretty darn adventurous. We parked by a ...