In 2012, the Richmond Virginia Art Community joined with national street artists to create murals on the flood walls along the James River Canal (media coverage is here and here). Because it was on the path I walked during lunch, I had the opportunity to watch as it was being created and later, the final…
I’m always surprised when strangers smile at me, even more so when they say niceties such as “how are you today?”. It happened again the other day. I wasn’t feeling too good and I had a tough morning working on a sticky problem. I went for my walk during lunch, really wrapped up in my…
. With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy? ― Oscar Wilde And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking…
Sometimes I experience new things in life simply by being in the right place at the right time. In fall of 2011, a new bridge was put in for easier access to Brown’s Island in downtown Richmond (Virginia). I wrote about it here and posted a few pictures from that day. Ailsa, over at Where’s…
The readers of Outside Magazine have voted Richmond as the #1 River Town in America. Of course, there was quite a campaign encouraging us to vote and we did! The magazine expected the winner to be from Montana or Oregon, but not from the east coast. The author details Richmond’s clean-up of pollution and crime, making…
This week’s Six Word Friday uses the word “knock”, and as we move into the last few days of September I’ve noticed for yet another year that: Autumn knocks with urgency in September. At the end of August, I took several hundred photographs of the butterflies and hummingbird moths in the gardens at Colonial Williamsburg. …
One thing about my favorite boy toy and I is that we do not travel lightly. Not only do we have our clothes and toiletries, but we also have our cameras, tripods, laptop, iPads, and books. Depending on how long I’m gone, I may even have my work laptop with as well. Of course, we…
Living The Seasons 