In Salema, Portugal, we stayed in a villa at the top of a hill. This building was at the bottom of that hill, and we walked past it a number of times.
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Striped Landscape
The view from the train platform in Toledo was unusually picturesque.
Wooden Star
A detail of one of the doors of the Synagogue of Santa Maria de la Blanca, in Toledo, Spain. (A rather curious name for a synagogue…) The interior was also beautiful, with arches and bas relief detail in white stucco. Unfortunately, the attendants were very serious about enforcing the photography restriction.
Beach Rose with Fly
I thought it was time to bring back a little bit of color, after the nearly monochromatic paving stones. This was taken on a walking path above the beach in Rockport, MA, on a hazy spring day
More Paving Stones
Tesselating Paving Stones
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working on the print version of the travelogue from our honeymoon in Spain and Portugal. This project has dragged on, and I’m pleased to have it nearly done. One benefit of procrastinating on this has been that my color correction skills in Photoshop have improved quite a bit. I’m going back through the photos to touch up some of them, and figured I’d share a few here. These paving stones were on the Passeig de Gracia, in Barcelona.
Floreta: One Euro
From one of the many market stalls on Las Ramblas in Barcelona. The flowers are dried and dyed, and packaged in paper cones. We saw these over an over in Barcelona, but nowhere else in Spain.
Joy Pulley Wheels
My one successful roommate experience (aside from moving in with Dan, of course) was the year I lived with my friend Donna. We were both newly out of college, employed but broke, and always looking for cheap ways to have fun. Our friendship was originally forged by a series of road trips back home from school, and we kept up that tradition while we were roommates. This shot is from one of those days, when we got in the car with a vague destination in New Hampshire (or maybe Eastern Vermont) and just stopped when the fancy struck us. One…
Salmon and Yellow: Abstract
This is another shot of the odd salmon flower from the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden. I like the absraction of this shot, with the two mottled yellow flowers in the background.
International Lily Pads
These lily pads are from the garden of the Pena Palace in Sintra, Portugal. This shot is more about shapes, composition and colors than some of the other lily pad shots I have posted.