24 Sunday Jul 2011
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© Joan Currie
A great trip in a car is like watching a first-rate movie — but a great trip on a motorcycle is like living the movie. – CNN, American Road Trips
This lucky Harley man and his Blintze Boys buddies (below) stopped in Half Moon Bay before cruisin’ up the coast.
© Joan Currie
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10 Sunday Jul 2011
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© Joan Currie
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
by Lord Byron
I wonder what this child is thinking as she looks out on this vast sea…
03 Tuesday May 2011
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© Lauren DiMarco on Oakland Bay Bridge near the Island
Within the portion of San Francisco Bay lying inside the city limits are the natural islands of Alcatraz and Yerba Buena and man-made Treasure Island, created for a world’s fair in 1939 and later turned into a naval base (1941–93). – Encyclopedia Britannica
1. Best location to view San Francisco’s nightscape and holiday fireworks!
2. Spectacular views of San Francisco Bay, especially during Fleet Week in October.
3. Easy access to the city of San Francisco via the Oakland Bay Bridge (no toll required).
4. Former military barracks have been converted to affordable rental housing.
5. Event facilities are available for corporate and private events (such as weddings, concerts).
6. It is home to a feral cat community.
7. Sea lions frequent the waters nearby.
8. Halibut, stripers, rockfish, and shark have been caught from along its western shore.
9. Clipper Cove is home to the Treasure Island Yacht Club.
10. Great spot to view the construction of the eastern span of the Oakland Bay Bridge.
Joan Currie
Model – Lauren DiMarco
13 Sunday Mar 2011
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© Olesya Aleksandronis
Pluto, god of the underworld, abducted Proserpine to be his queen and bride.
The woman’s fingers in the photograph above, brought to mind one of my favorite marble sculptures, Pluto and Proserpina (1621-22), by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the Galleria Borghese, Rome.
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Model – Maksim Zaitsev
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Beauty and the Sea Beast
05 Saturday Mar 2011
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© Joan Currie
The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn. – David Russell
Be very careful about which bridges you burn as there may be no way back.
16 Wednesday Feb 2011
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© Mona Currie
A teardrop of love on the cheek of eternity. – Rabindranath Tagore
(describing Shah Jahan’s Taj Mahal – a tomb and tribute for his wife).
My mother photographed the Taj Mahal during a visit to India in 1967.
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13 Sunday Feb 2011
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© Joan Currie
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting. – Goethe
Despite my fear of heights, I accepted an invitation to go on a zip line adventure in the redwoods near Santa Cruz this afternoon. The risk manager in me checked out the two-point contact support (two parallel zip lines) and I was reassured by the fact that I would be tethered to a line at all times, especially on the (very) small platforms in the forest (one 150′ high).
The tour included 6 zip lines, each different in length (one 440 ‘ long) and speed, and two sky bridges. To be honest, each time I readied to leave the platform the thought did cross my mind that I might plunge to my death, but to my amazement, I pushed off just the same!
Now, here is the best part – remember the forest scenes in the Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi? The experience was a combination of the Ewoks’ forest platform homes on the moon Endor and the flying scooter-like experience of weaving in and out of the trees. The zip line also makes a buzzing sound akin to a scooter motor. (According to Wikipedia, the Ewoks are named after the Miwok, a Native American tribe, indigenous to the redwood forest!)
© Joan Currie
This is a view of the ropes challenge course right beside the zip line course – notice the size of the circular landing platform. The zip line travels from platform to platform and the only tricky part was figuring out how to brake effectively when coming in for a landing. The two guides, each stationed at a platform (one to launch and one to catch) were terrific!
All in all, it was a very intense but thrilling experience!
06 Sunday Feb 2011
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© Joan Currie
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else. – Orison Swett Mardone
I love to travel by train! My favorite train ride was during the summer after grade ten when I traveled with my best girlfriend from Calgary to Vancouver through the Canadian Rockies. We both fell hopelessly in love with a handsome university student who boarded the train in Revelstoke and spent more time looking at him than the glorious scenery all around us.
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29 Saturday Jan 2011
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© Joan Currie
From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters,
This land was made for you and me. – Woody Guthrie
I hiked this afternoon under the canopy of the towering redwoods.
© Joan Currie
I passed a challenge course’s platforms and sky bridges.
23 Sunday Jan 2011
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© Lydia Hudgens
Continued...
34. Travel to a foreign land.
35. Buy flowers from a farmers market.
36. Stargaze.
37. Create a family tree.
38. Taste exotic fruit.
39. Buy a painting from an art school.
40. Make a cat purr.
41. Learn a few phrases in a foreign language.
42. Visit a cathedral with stained glass windows.
43. Watch a sunrise.
44. Read to a child.
45. Learn to play a musical instrument.
46. Ride a horse.
47. Laugh out loud.
48. Snuggle.
49. Wear your best watch or jewelry.
50. Cry at movies.
51. Display your treasures and collections.
52. Listen to Puccini, Tchaikovsky, or Chopin.
53. Wear cowboy boots.
54. Ride in a fast boat.
55. Watch Masterpiece Theater.
56. Notice your city or town’s architecture.
57. Say “Yes” more often.
58. Listen to a new music genre.
59. Learn a limerick.
60. Buy fine cotton or silk sheets.
61. Write with a different color ink.
62. Visit a National Forest.
63. Buy or make new sofa cushions.
64. Learn to skin and/or scuba dive.
65. Greet your baristas by name.
66. Buy balloons.
67. Believe in miracles.
To be continued…
