Maybe it was because I haven’t been making so many photographs locally, but we drove down to visit friends in south-east Ohio, just as fall color was in full swing, and we did not stop, I did not make any photographs, even when we drove through the Hocking Hill »
We were actually there to attend a concert in the Chamber Music Festival of Saugatuck, but it meant we were able to stay with our friends outside Benton Harbor, and on the way north stop in Van Buren Park.
Final stop on my quick visit to the UK was to stay with an old friend from our days at HP who now lives just outside Bristol. I was able to travel directly from York to Bristol by train.
My two oldest (longstanding) friends now both live in York, just a short drive apart, so it was easy to co-ordinate movements for trips and events.
After visiting Whidbey Island, I was able to fly directly from Seattle (ok, via Amsterdam) to Manchester – my first visit to the UK since 2019. First stop was on the Lancashire-Yorkshire boundary with my brother.
My host from the Charlie Waite workshop last year was going to be away for a couple of months, and so Jill and I arranged to look after her house, and garden, for a couple of weeks in May.
I didn’t have enough local knowledge, or at least, preferences, so I asked Martin & Peter to select a good place to hike near to York, and they chose Sutton Bank. We discovered the trail from the visitor centre led to what a few years back was voted by »
It being Sunday, I had checked that the bus and ferry would actually be running. I hadn’t checked how often the bus was running, and so when I didn’t get moving fast enough, I found myself with an hour and half wait for the next bus. The bus itself »
This is a voyage of discovery, just what can be done. We haven’t seen our friend Melanie for over 5 years, since she and her family moved back to Vancouver. We’ve tried to meet a few times over the years, but something always crops up. Even this time, I »
I took the bus up, literally straight up, to Lynden. All this long road is on the flat, and then when you get to Lynden, it just rises slightly; good move, there were more than a few fields waterlogged along the way. From the back of Front St, I »