October 25, 2024 Manitoga is the home and woodland garden of Russell Wright (1904-1976), who in the mid 20th century was one of America’s most prominent product designers. He is best known for his colorful American Modern dinnerware, which manufactured between 1939 and 1959, is still America’s most widely sold ceramic dinnerware. The pitchers alsoContinue reading “Manitoga, New York, USA”
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Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York, USA
October 24, 2024 The Storm King Art Center is a 500 acre outdoor museum in New York’s Hudson Valley. It is reminiscent of Gibbs Farm in New Zealand with its massive sculptures dotted within beautiful countryside. In fact, we noticed a number of works by the same sculptors that we saw at Gibbs Farm, includingContinue reading “Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York, USA”
Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA
October 23, 2024 Our good friends, Dale and Joe, invited us to stay with them for a few days in Connecticut. They live in the quaint seaside hamlet of Stony Creek. It would have been easy to waste the days away sitting in the beautiful home that Joe designed and looking out over the marshContinue reading “Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA”
Great Falls, Potomac, Maryland, USA
October 10, 2024 Built between 1828 and 1850, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal (C&O Canal) extends alongside the Potomac river for about 185 miles from Georgetown in Washington DC to Cumberland, Maryland. It was built to transport coal and other goods but quickly became obsolete with the advent of railroads. It is now used byContinue reading “Great Falls, Potomac, Maryland, USA”
Belmont Shore, Long Beach, California, USA
September 8, 2024 Quite often during our walks, we pass a car that we photograph and add to the blog as classic car of the day. Today’s post has nothing but classic cars, because it was the Belmont Shore car show, where the main drag that runs through the Shore is closed off and linedContinue reading “Belmont Shore, Long Beach, California, USA”
Peninsula, Long Beach, California, USA
September 4, 2024 The aptly named Peninsula neighborhood in Long Beach, separates the ocean from Alamitos Bay. It is only a couple of hundred yards wide but stretches for over a mile. There is a boardwalk running in front of the houses that line the ocean side. Unfortunately, the nearby port makes swimming on LongContinue reading “Peninsula, Long Beach, California, USA”
Belmont Heights, Long Beach, California, USA
August 29, 2024 Back on the streets of Belmont Heights today. Here are some of our favorite homes. And here is yet another classic pick-up truck.
La Jolla, California, USA
August 25, 2024 La Jolla is a seaside suburb of San Diego. We drove down the coast from Carlsbad to take a look around and meet up with friends who live down there. We started out by having lunch at a New Zealand themed restaurant called Queenstown. According to the waiter, one of the ownersContinue reading “La Jolla, California, USA”
Carlsbad, California, USA
August 24, 2024 Carlsbad is a beach town between Los Angeles and San Diego. It is named after the Bohemian town of Karlsbad (now Karlovy Vary in Czechia). Coincidentally, we visited Karlovy Vary a few years back and can tell you that looks nothing like Carlsbad. Apparently, the connection is that both towns are knownContinue reading “Carlsbad, California, USA”
Belmont Heights, Bluff Park and Bluff Heights, Long Beach, California, USA
August 23, 2024 Today, we wandered into the adjacent neighborhoods of Bluff Park and Bluff Heights. 1st Street appears to be where Long Beach’s rich built their homes, lined as it is with large and ornate homes. Further back from the ocean in Bluff Heights, the homes are less majestic. There also a number ofContinue reading “Belmont Heights, Bluff Park and Bluff Heights, Long Beach, California, USA”
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