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On this beautiful fall Friday, enjoy the two below.  These are more personal to our little group:  a group hiking shot and then the sight th...

Good morning!  Another installment from a fabulous trip to Croatia with Backroads. By the time we reached this inlet, we were perhaps 45 m...

Another photo from a wonderful week of travel in Croatia.  On this day, we hiked on Korcula Island.  We had just eaten lunch near Vela Luka ...

Good morning!  Check in each morning before 8 AM and I will have a new photo posted from my recent (and first) trip to Croatia.  I was with ...

Peeping through the windows of the Ca d'Oro, I spy an Italian flag across the Grand Canal. Umpty trips to Venice and finally went b...

I had never been to Lake Garda before and so I wanted to compare it to Lake Como.  We stayed there three nights, and only one day was nice ...

Good morning!  Back to the regularly scheduled programming about our trip to northern Italy in May. In between Venice and Lake Como, we st...

"Villa Balbianello is bathed in sunlight all day", sayeth Miss Bentley, a.k.a. Vanessa Redgrave in "A Month by the Lake"...

Buongiorno!  I'm taking a detour from the "photos from our trip" series and will highlight Villa Balbianello for a few days (n...

Good morning!  I hope you are enjoying this series.  This photo was taken from our balcony at Albergo Lenno (and I cannot recommend this h...

Good morning everyone and as promised, here is the counterpart to yesterday's photo.  This is directly across from Laglio, where George ...

More in the series.  As we drove from the southern part of the lake to our destination in Lenno, we paused for a few minutes above Laglio.  ...

OK, so I didn't post this the NEXT day.  The fact it was within 7 days is amazing given how much I've neglected my blog! This is t...

This is Salita Serbelloni, taken from the very tippy-top of the stairs, in Bellagio. Even if you haven't been to Bellagio, odds ar...

This is Villa Monastero, taken from Villa Cipressi.  It may be my favorite villa on Lake Como (although it is in stiff, stiff company for...

This was taken in a little hamlet called Loppia which is on the water not far from Bellagio (walk through Villa Melzi and keep going).  We h...

Last weekend I visited Meadowlark Gardens for the first time in at least a year.  Not only had my membership expired, the gentleman at the d...

I've been an occasional local in Savannah for going on six years now.  Well, technically speaking South Carolina - the Hilton Head area....

I just stumbled across this National Geographic posting about Savannah, with a brief shout-out to Hilton Head Island.  Below is a photo I to...

More of the series...  I had a productive weekend, I made a mock-up of the coffee table book I'd like to make from this series. ...

Good morning everyone.  I have started the slow (v. slow) process of sorting my many photos into categories which are not merely "by ...