These photos were taken here (Midway Wells doesn’t seem to be searchable, but that’s that intersection there; you’ll have to zoom out a few notches to be able to see satellite photos).
And these were taken from here.
And of course, I grew up here, just west of the dunes.
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I flew home to California to see my family at the end of last week, and I took a few pictures to give an idea of where I grew up. Here are a few pictures taken just a few miles west of my parents’ home (they live in town).
This photo was taken driving east [...]
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On our drive home we decided on the spur of the moment to visit the Bread and Puppet Museum in Glover, Vermont. It was time for us to have lunch, so we stopped at the general store in Glover. Generous deli sandwiches. And stuffed animals. Lots of them. One aisle has freezer cases on one [...]
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Bonsai is the Japanese word, penjing the Chinese. I decided to try the photo album capacity of typepad, so there the link is to photos over on the right.
One of our priority destinations in Montreal was Jardin botanique de Montréal/Montreal Botanical Garden , since we didn’t get there last year.
Here are a few photos of greenhouse plants and the nearby Olympic Stadium with and without clouds.
And some photos of the koi in the pond in the Japanese Garden:
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Yes, I’m descending into travelogue. I figure, if I use a blog to keep track of books I’ve read (usually with minimal commentary), then I might as well use it as an aide-memoire for trips as well.
Bob and I left for Ottawa on Saturday, August 27. We had a pleasant drive up through Franconia Notch [...]
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