Photo Phriday: Ben Franklin Was Here
Ben Franklin may not have sat upon this specific bench, but on a drizzly summer afternoon, you could just about imagine he still wandered the grounds.
Minor Detail
From a lovely afternoon strolling around Independence Park, this is a detail of the fencing that surrounds the building that houses the Liberty Bell. It\’s fun to give yourself the time and space to wander, to be a little lost, a little unproductive; because it is in those times of pause – the negative space …
Pardon Our Progress
Train travel is not a mode of long distance transport that one uses to get places quickly in the United States (sigh, would that it were), but it is a mode of transport that helps you construct the DNA of our nation. Watching the land roll past the windows as you eavesdrop on, and converse …
Photo Phriday: The City of Brotherly Love
I *heart* Philadelphia.
Photo Phriday: Time Machine
Like stepping into a Jules Verne story, the USS Drum is a fascinating tour.
Photo Phriday: Precipice
Considering the predicament of the caterpillar, I can\’t complain about the giant bruise I acquired to get this shot.
Photo Phriday: Night Falls
Night descends on the Pisgah National Forest, bringing with it a silence that can touch your bones, until the coyotes howl, the owls screech, or a bear sniffs right up underneath your tent. Then you drift back to sleep with the trees whispering overhead.
Photo Phriday: Sunlight in the Forest
While camping in the Pisgah National Forest recently, after a burst of rain, the sunlight made one last gallant display of its luminosity before descending into night. The way the light bounced off the residual water droplets made for a magical moment that had to be savored.
Photo Phriday: Weird Sisters
Shakespeare\’s Macbeth features three Weird Sisters, often referred to as the Witches. Coming upon these three sisters on my autumnal hike up Mt. Pisgah in North Carolina late in the afternoon on a foggy day had me reciting their incantations the rest of the day – and looking over my shoulder. Bears may not be …
Photo Phriday: Shells of the Past
The beauty and the lessons of history are striking aboard the USS Alabama Battleship.