If you have the pleasure of visiting France, particularly one of the villages outside the main cities, I can make no stronger recommendation than to visit the outdoor markets. There are few experiences more French than strolling from stall to stall, enjoying small bites of food and purchasing only as many groceries as you can […]
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”8″ gal_title=”Night Sky Photography Images”] Photo Specs ISO: 12800 Aperture: 6.3 Shutter Speed: 15 seconds Background As many regular readers know (since all two of you are friends anyway), we go home for the holidays to east Tennessee, where my parents live on a small farm. There’s not a great deal of that farm […]
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”2″ gal_title=”Udvar-Hazy Center”] On our recent return trip from Berkeley Springs, we finally stopped by the Smithsonian’s newest museum, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. I’m embarrassed that it opened in 2003 and we just now made it out there; it’s absolutely spectacular. Highlights include an SR-71 Blackbird, a Concorde, the space shuttle Discovery, the […]