Tag: Travel

Season’s Greetings

  “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!” ― Charles Dickens, A […]

Jupiter Island Lighthouse

Our footsteps were last traveling along the paved walkway at the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area in northern Palm Beach County, Florida. Just a hop-skip and a jump across the road, standing tall for all the world to see is the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum. Built […]

Meeting of the Minds

Somehow these two bulls in the Andes Mountains in Peru remind me of our government representatives. With the fiscal cliff impending, it’s like two bulls in a Mexican standoff, hoping the other will back off. Here’s hoping a meeting of minds will occur.

Close to the Beach

A little known gem of a natural preserved area across from Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse is the JILONA. This Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding National Area is one of just a few places in the country that have received this designation by the Bureau of Land Management. The only ONA […]

Fog on the Magothy River

Fog BY CARL SANDBURG THE fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. A full day of fog sits over the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. Mysterious, but yet enveloping, the fog remains through the evening. It […]

Lunch in Farragut Square

“Damn the Torpedoes ! Full speed ahead!” Standing high and proud in a rare green space in the center of the bustling streets of Washington D.C. stands a statue of David G. Farragut. A Union Admiral in the American Civil War immortalized by his battle cry during the […]