Beyond doors
Udaipur, India
doors are always so captivating to me. Doors and what we can see in their opening. They always tend to open in some daily life activity.
Gold and Blue
When planning a May trip to Italy with my husband, I knew that Venice was a city I definitely wanted to visit. I was looking forward to seeing some of the things I most associated with Venice, like the Grand Canal, gondolas, and St. Mark's...
An Oasis Called Home
When I travel to other countries, I find myself drawn to windows, doors and gates. I find them far more artistic than those in the States. As I wondered around the beautiful hill town of Volterra in Tuscany, I came upon this beautiful wood door to...
"Who's out there?"
My husband and I were lucky enough to visit beautiful Venice in May as I had put it on my must-see list when we were planning our trip. I was looking forward to getting to see first-hand the touristy things I associated with Venice: the Grand...
Window on the Square
I visited Sighisoara, Romania in 2011. This city is one of the best preserved medieval cities in Europe and is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Founded by Transylvanian Saxons in the 12th Century, Sighisoara is the birthplace of Vlad the Impaler. The...
elemental architecture
Adobe streetfront: door...window...sky. Color.
Much of Tucson, like most western U.S. cities, is devoted to strip-malls and parking lots, but the historic core still has blocks of 19th-century Sonoran-style row-houses. In the 1960's, acres and...
a window to Central Puerto Rico
ON TOP OF THE WORLD: This is my favorite hike by far! Cueva Ventana ("Window Cave") is a beautiful, scenic hole in the side of a mountain that opens up to a lush, green valley down below. You'll trample through mud, hunker down under low hanging...
If Doors and Windows Could Talk...
While in Venice, I became enamored with the windows and the doors. The arched doors and windows with the detail sculpted around them. The gorgeous shutters made of warm colors of wood that closed each day as the world outside them warmed up. The...
