March 8, 2025 The Pah Homestead is a historic home located in the Auckland suburb of Hillsborough. It is, currently, owned by the Auckland Council and is operated as an art gallery. It was built in the 1870s for businessman James Williamson. Among other things, Williamson was a Member of Parliament and co-founder of theContinue reading “Hillsborough / Onehunga, Auckland, New Zealand”
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Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand
March 7, 2025 On yet another beautiful sunny day we set out to explore Parnell, one of Auckland‘s oldest and most affluent suburbs. We started off walking around the edge of Hobson Bay before heading up into the neighborhood streets. These are some sites we saw along the way. If you find yourself in Parnell,Continue reading “Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand”
Milford / Castor Bay, Auckland, New Zealand
March 6,2025 Finding ourselves in Milford on the North Shore, we decided to walk up the coastline to Castor Bay. Because this is New Zealand where having a cafe nearby at all times is mandated, we came across this cute little cafe by the marina. We then headed up around the headlands looking back downContinue reading “Milford / Castor Bay, Auckland, New Zealand”
Newmarket, Auckland, New Zealand
March 2, 2025 A number of major roads converge on the suburb of Newmarket from all parts of Auckland and from early settlement times, it has been a retail center. Around 1850, it received the name Newmarket because it was the site of the new market for livestock, where farmers would bring their cattle andContinue reading “Newmarket, Auckland, New Zealand”
Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand
February 26, 2025 Today we set out to explore one of Auckland’s oldest suburbs, Grafton. Today it is dominated by Auckland Hospital, surrounded by narrow streets that have not changed much since the neighborhood was established in the 1800s. The suburb is bordered on the east by what has always seemed to us to beContinue reading “Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand”
Manitoga, New York, USA
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”
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”
Mal and Lauren 