Category Archives: Personal
At Sea on the Cruise Ship
I have no photographs from the cruise while we were at sea. Frankly, the open ocean, or even the ocean relatively near the coast, is not very “photograph-able.” It’s a flat blue expanse below a featureless blue sky, when it … Continue reading
On to Powell River
Janet, a girl I went to high school with in Napa, California, married in the late ’70s, and she and her husband Wes moved to Powell River, British Columbia, where they stayed and raised 2 children. When we’re in the … Continue reading
Try Something New
I did something new in the summer of 2017. I took a Princess Cruise – inside passage, to Alaska and back. I didn’t do this on my own. I sing with the Oakland Symphony Chorus, directed by Dr. Lynne Morrow … Continue reading
Albion Manor, Victoria
I don’t have any photos from the ferry ride over to Victoria from Seattle. This is partly because it started at 7 AM, a time of day when I’m not fully functional. Besides, you don’t see much of interest from … Continue reading
A Night on the Train
As happens too often, I’m a year late blogging this vacation. Oh, well. My plan this time is to blog 2 years in parallel, but we’ll see. In 2016 we decided we hadn’t visited British Columbia in a while, so … Continue reading
Exploring Prague – Castle and Cathedral
July 1 was our last full day in Europe. Could we sleep in? No way – the bus to the Prague Castle, where we had guided walking tours set up, left at 8:30 AM. And yes, I’m willing to get … Continue reading
Prague Performances
On this stay we performed the day after we arrived – twice, in fact. Our scheduled concert was at 6:30 PM, in the Church of the Holy Saviour, near the Old Town Square in Prague; but we had an appointment … Continue reading
Driving to Prague
We all packed up again, piled into the now familiar black bus, and hit the road for Prague. I was surprised to find that, once we got out of Vienna, we were largely traveling on secondary roads – well paved … Continue reading
Christmas Day Walk
Yes, I know it’s May. 2016 has been an extremely weird year, and one of these days I’ll blog it. But I recently got the photos sorted, processed and uploaded from the walk I took around Lake Temescal, in the … Continue reading
Vienna and the Schönbrunn Palace
The day after the Stephansdom concert, we had a bus tour of the Ring, followed by an organized group tour of the Schönbrunn Palace, then a drive into the countryside to visit Eisenstadt, where Haydn is buried, and Esterhazy Palace, … Continue reading
