The Beehive

Picking up the Boston narrative where I left off, BAP and I spent our first night in Boston at the Beehive, a jazz club  in the Boston Center for the Arts. The guide-book in our hotel room said it was the new hip and elegant place to be.  We weren’t dressed for either, but we went anyway and [...]

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Nerkygrrl on the Millennium Park fountain in 11 easy layers

Thanks to everyone who participated in AIP 7.0, including Nerkygrrl, who made her debut on the Millennium Park fountain in 11 easy layers.

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A little more like Thrasher

I found this week’s class a little disappointing. Nonetheless, I did take last week’s photo. . . . and add the Poster Edges filter and make adjustments to the saturation and lightness . . . to look a little more like that Thrasher print . . .

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Like Virgil Thrasher

I’ve signed up for a 5 week Photoshop class with Lisa (my teacher from the winter) at the Hyde Park Art Center. I took a Photoshop training class through work a few years ago and have been using it ever since, but the number of things one can do with Photoshop seems endless. I expected [...]

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Future travel? The 3 faces of Olympic NP

I interrupt the ongoing east coast travel narrative to say,”Holy Cow!”  This photo alone makes me think we should take a trip to Olympic NP: But wait – there’s more.

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Chihuly at the MFA

Monday morning BAP and I drove into Boston and parked at the location that inspired my trip in the first place: the Museum of Fine Arts. The first stop at our first stop: the Chihuly exhibit. It was pretty amazing. Almost as amazing was how well my iPhone photos came out.  Which made phone photography irresistible to [...]

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Mystic

Middle-aged Midwesterners associate it with pizza and a young Julia Roberts. Midwestern transplants associate it with tourism. And locals carefully distinguish it from the town next door. But I now associate Mystic with R&B, who moved there with their 3 sons from South Bend, where they arrived with only 1 son from Hyde Park, where [...]

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Wallingford

After the two-emergency vacation I took during the 3rd week of June, my #1 hope for July was five days of crisis-free traveling. Guess what: Mission accomplished! Friday night, July 22, I flew out to Connecticut to bop around with college friend BAP.  At last, I saw the remodeled Wallingford dream house (super comfy!) and [...]

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