Category Archives: Personal

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At Sea on the Cruise Ship

Posted on January 1, 2018 by hedera

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 →

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On to Powell River

Posted on December 21, 2017 by hedera

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 →

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Try Something New

Posted on October 7, 2017 by hedera

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 →

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Albion Manor, Victoria

Posted on October 3, 2017 by hedera

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 →

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A Night on the Train

Posted on September 6, 2017 by hedera

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 →

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Exploring Prague – Castle and Cathedral

Posted on January 9, 2017 by hedera

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 →

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Prague Performances

Posted on September 26, 2016 by hedera

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 →

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Driving to Prague

Posted on August 22, 2016 by hedera

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 →

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Christmas Day Walk

Posted on May 27, 2016 by hedera

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 →

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Vienna and the Schönbrunn Palace

Posted on May 9, 2016 by hedera

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 →

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