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Rochester Parks Exploration, Part 1

Seeking beauty, I am diving into exploring Rochester’s parks in a big way. To follow, pieces of beauty found and frolicked in. Ellison Park The word “lush” comes to mind. No not someone who drinks too much but teeming with green. Ellison Park is a gorgeous park. In a tree Read more…


Channing H. Philbrick Park
Penfield, New York

Looking for a place to get some steps in my new hood, I tried out Channing H. Philbrick Park in Penfield, a suburb of Rochester. It was lush and packed with green, isolated and I’ve also filed it away for a fairy shoot. Though my main mission was to move, Read more…


A Walk Through Ancient Trees
Methuselah & The Bristlecone Pines

Ancient Bristlecone Pines are the oldest living organisms in the world. Yes, in the world! Located in the Inyo National Forest near California’s Eastern Sierras, catching a glimpse of them was a definite must for me as I passed through the amazing U.S. 395. To have the chance to walk Read more…


A Morning at Joshua Tree National Park

It is really difficult to capture the beauty of these trees with the camera. But that doesn’t mean I won’t try. During the beautiful blue hour I began shooting them and I continued until my hunger pangs won the battle. Meet Joshuas. It is when they are plentiful and layered Read more…


A Night at Joshua Tree National Park

Looking at these shots from my evening at Joshua Tree National Park, I am grateful I pushed myself to darkness when my body was calling for a motel room. I had originally planned to camp near Mojave, where I spent the day in the sun. But the forecast for the Read more…


Mendon Ponds Park
Birdsong Fairy Trail 🐦🧚

Fairy Trails are one of the newest things I hunt for when I travel. They capture a whimsicalness that I find to be reaffirming and balancing. Within the efforts related to their creation, upkeep and popularity, a nurturing of a childish belief in magic, goodwill, and simple wonder. It is Read more…


Vegan in Fairbanks, Alaska
Welcome to Fairbanks

After a long day of travel, I arrived in Fairbanks at 2 a.m. But before the excitement of that moment, there was a lot of staring out airplane windows at pretty frost forming. The white in the cracks of the country below Saying goodbye to the Lower 48 as I Read more…


Abandoned Tom Gaskins’ Cypress Kneeland
Palmdale, Florida

Ah, how I love road relics like this! …Places that capture the wonderment of kitschy roadside attractions. This post shows the current state of one such attraction: Tom Gaskins Cypress Kneeland. Tom Gaskin opened his display of his beloved Cypress tree knees in 1951. It sat attracting tourists for about Read more…


California Desert Adventure ☀️
Joshua Tree National Park

Camping at Joshua Tree National Park was like living in a gorgeous desert painting… from sunrise to sunset. To follow, a visual report from that colorful canvas. Yield. Don’t die. This tree’s name is Joshua. Butt rock Skull rock


Grassy Waters Preserve
West Palm Beach, Florida

As I am sure you know, Florida is a different climate than New York. But I like to notice how different that makes things down there. Different climate–different air, different land, different water. Different everything. I love to visit places that contrast my home in every way possible and be Read more…


Autumn in Green-Wood 🍁
{Pictorial}

Since my trip to Manhattan’s Trinity Church & Cemetery was thwarted, I headed to the other side of Green-Wood Cemetery to capture the slightly past peak foliage and the familiar dour faces inside the blaze of a summer day in autumn, before the bright orange and yellow fall. Next up, Read more…


Discovery at Green-Wood Cemetery

An afternoon at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery would bring new discoveries, even more reasons to love its grounds. And since I’ve been carless for 11 days , I walked there from my apartment… just to see how long it would take. It was an easy walk that I’ll likely do again! Read more…


Parks & Rec: Brooklyn
Owl’s Head Park

Owl’s Neck Park has some great looking trees. And when you’re cooped up inside and feeling humdrum, it’s nice to be able to appreciate a tree–a tall and mighty tree that reaches continuously. It grows not by discernible leaps but gradually everyday, stretching to both to the sky and in Read more…


Under the Pink 🌸
GreenWoods Cherry Blossoms

On my to-do list this afternoon: Lay under a Cherry Blossom tree. ✅ And if it’s on my list, it’s going to get done. Until I get myself to Japan for Hanami (on my list, so.. you know), I will run to Green-Wood annually when the cherry blossoms are in Read more…


Last Day in Cleveland

{It’s My Party 🎉, Part 6} My birthday excursion was packed with all of my favorite things, but reality returns tomorrow. The last day had me finally seeing downtown Cleveland and getting back into the foliage just a short drive from my motel in Richfield. The truth is that I consulted Read more…


Blessed Are The Intrepid, Day 16:
On the Road

On my first official day heading north, I had a fantastic breakfast in the Hourglass District of Orlando, Florida. You know places like this: bright murals, great fonts, food halls with social spaces… vegan options. Apparently Hourglass is an “it” place. So in one spot I can get my coconut Read more…


These Are a Few of My Favorite Things:
The Banyan Tree

The Banyan Tree is pretty spectacular. It’s one of my favorite things. Those aerial roots that look like dripping liquid wood, its enormity… how can these trees just be hanging around regular streets without a crowd of people taking pictures of their amazing limbs. I mean besides us.


Blessed are the Intrepid, Day 6:
Florida, Finally

Blog back-up makes me uneasy.  Each day is a million adventures, so just two days ago is a million miles away.  But Day 6, yes.  Speaking to what I took pictures of is a helpful system, but it doesn’t indicate a lot of the important feelings I am having on Read more…


Blessed are the Intrepid, Day 5:
Springs in the Rain

A peaceful morning in the swamp wouldn’t last all that long as I hit the road once again, enduring nonstop torrential downpours. Now… this rain… it is starting to damper my days! I continue to honor my itinerary, but it is just much more… soggy. But I guess the moisture Read more…


5 Boroughs in 5 Days: Brooklyn

I was so happy to learn that the Brooklyn Botanical Garden is *free* before noon on Fridays.  With my free Fridays dwindling, I set out to beat the rain.  The grounds are gorgeous, lush and teeming with color, texture, activity–and it’s totally possible to see everything in several hours, unlike Read more…


Making Home: Bay Ridge Exploration

When I visit a place, I look into its history, find its hidden goodies, look at with curiosity and hunger.  Doesn’t your home deserve this level of attention to detail, if not more?  Determined to not take home for granted and to claim it as all my own, I explored Read more…


Pretty Girls Make Graves /
These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things: Old Cemeteries

I work several blocks away from Brooklyn’s historical Green-Wood Cemetery. And I had been meaning to get in there the entire school year.  Now that the weather is relatively nice, I have taken a few opportunities to kill time, getting lost within its 478 acres. The cemetery is beautiful, quiet, Read more…


Teton Chaser

Everything in Jackson, Wyoming revolves around the Tetons. And proving this, I spent my day finding a variety of ways and circumstances in which I could see the Tetons. Starting at the crack of dawn. The striking hues of a beautiful sunrise can do pretty fantastic things to the sky, so I knew Read more…


Storm Porn & Fried Gnocchi

Might as well share some pictures of Hurricane Irene’s after-math since I survived the hullabaloo. Small branches and leaves littered everywhere like a clumsy, ravenous herbivore had it’s way with the land. Much to the disappointment of the newscasters reporting on the storm, the damage was far less than expected. I Read more…