We just got back from a wonderful 14-day Antarctica Cruise this week. The cruise started from Buenos Aires, Argentina, first sailed through the Patagonia region of Chile (Punta Arenas) and Argentina (Ushuaia) and then headed south toward Antarctica PenĂnsula and cruised through South Shetland Islands […]
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Wild Horses at Assateague National Seashore Park
We took a side trip to Assateague National Seashore to view and photograph some wild horses (ponies). Here are some pictures I took. “Assateague’s wild horses are well known, even to many people who have never been to the island. The “wild” horses on Assateague […]

Chincoteague Sunrise and Sunset
As our last photo outing of 2022, we spent a couple of days in Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge area on December 28-29. The sunrise and sunset scenes are always beautiful. Sunrise: Sunset:

Happy New Year 2023
I took this sunrise picture at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on December 29, 2022, our last photo outing in 2022 Wish you a Happy and Prosperous New Year in 2023!

Blue Ridge Parkway – November 4-6, 2022
We toured the entire Blue Ridge Parkway from Waynesboro, Virginia to Oconaluftee, North Carolina in three days after tour of Skyline Drive. We had a very good day on the first day and viewed and photographed some nice fall color scenes (whatever was left as […]

Shenandoah National Park – Skyline Drive (11/3/2022)
We took a week-long trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park via Skyline Drive of Shenandoah National Park and Blue Ridge Parkway last week. Skyline Drive still had lots of beautiful autumn colors – we spent whole day driving from Front Royal, the Northern […]

Autumn Colors on Skyline Drive of Shenandoah National Park
I took a day trip to Shenandoah National Park yesterday. The fall colors along the Skyline Drive were brilliant. However, the colors on some of the distant mountains have not fully developed yet – may be another week.

Tastes of Autumn in Frederick, Maryland
Autumn colors start to appear in Frederick, Maryland. I took some pictures at Catoctin Mountain Park yesterday. Full autumn colors probably two weeks away.

Leonardo Da Vinci Birthplace in Vinci
Our last tour during the recent “Tastes of Tuscany” trip was the visit of Leonardo Da Vinci birthplace and museum in town of Vinci. Da Vinci was born 4/16/1452 in Anchiano and died on 5/2/1519 in Cloux, France. He was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, […]

Tastes of Tuscany – 4 – Lucca and Pisa
Lucca is one of Tuscany’s most beloved artistic cities, with nicknamed the town of a hundred churches on account of its incredible number of places of worship. It is the birthplace of famous composer Puccini. whose great pieces of La Boheme, Madam Butterfly that I […]

Tastes of Tuscany – 2 – Florence and Siena
We toured Siena and Florence (Firenze) on two different days. We enjoyed the cityscapes of both cities. Florence was packed with tourists everywhere we went, especially at Duomo and Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge), a World Heritage Site. At the stunning Piazza del Campo of the […]

Tastes of Tuscany – 1 – Landscapes
We took an 8-day “Tastes of Tuscany” tour two weeks ago. We stayed at the hotel at Montecatini for seven nights and used it as a base to tour Chianti Wine Country, Cinque Terre, Lucca, Pisa, Siena, Florence and Vinci. As we drove through the […]