Author Archives: Angeline M
Monday Missive~Frozen
Frozen in my days, not cold frozen. A renewed inability to concentrate on much, sporadic episodes that retreat for short whiles, then return with a vengeance. I had planned to post a Sunday Traveler Postcard yesterday, and kept circling my … Continue reading
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Tagged Carquinez Bridge, Carquinez Strait, coronacoaster, frozen, monday missive, Photo, thoughts
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Monday Missive~When It’s Done
Whenever I begin with that first brush stroke, that first bit of paint on canvas I always wonder as I progress how I will know when it’s done. My good friend and partner, an artist of incredible proportions, told me … Continue reading
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Tagged art, aspiring artist, completion, life, monday missive, Painting, thoughts
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Sunday Afternoon Musings
A complete amateur, but I persist in putting paint on canvas; it soothes my soul almost as much as going out to take photos. Today, as I stare at this piece I’m working on, I am unable to take my … Continue reading
Monday Missive~A Move, A Pandemic, and Fires
This isn’t quite how I expected to come back to my blog, “it’s always something”, as the wise woman, Gilda Radner once said. I moved about five miles down the road from the apartment where I had been living, to … Continue reading
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Tagged california wildfires, monday missive, moving, pandemic, photography, thoughts
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The Sunday Traveler~Italy Finale~Venice
The Sunday Traveler is wrapping up the flashback of Italy, 2002, in this final post, ending in Venice. The group’s last stop before heading home. I will be back in the future with some postcards from Rome, which I have … Continue reading
The Sunday Traveler~Italy, Part 9; Liguria and Siena
The Sunday Traveler travels down memory lane with these posts from 2002 when Italy was on my agenda. Today will highlight briefly both Santa Margherita Ligure, an Italian port in the region of Liguria. This day provided a brief visit … Continue reading
The Sunday Traveler~Italy, Part 8~Portofino 2
Can you imagine? A warm sunny day in Portofino, looking out in stunned silence at the beauty of the Ligurian Sea. And now, eighteen years later, I look at the photos as I finally upload them onto my digital files, … Continue reading
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Tagged Italy, ligurian sea, photography, Portofino, The Sunday Traveler, travel
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The Sunday Traveler~Italy Part 7, Portofino
April 21, 2002. The Sunday Traveler was on a tour of Tuscany; this date we drove to Portofino, in a time that seems so long ago. Seven months after September 11 and the world had begun to relax a little … Continue reading
The Sunday Traveler~Italy Part 6, San Gimignano
The Sunday Traveler has been taking you down memory lane the last several weeks, remembering a 2002 trip to Italy, and getting hard copy photos onto my digital file. At last. Sometimes it takes a couple years to get things … Continue reading
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Tagged antiquity, duomo di san gimignano, Italy, photography, san gimignano, The Sunday Traveler, travel
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The Sunday Traveler~Italy, Part 5, Florence
Firenze. The Sunday Traveler was on the road towards Florence this day in April back in 2002. Florence, the birthplace of the Renaissance, the medieval European trade and finance center. We started out early in the morning to travel from … Continue reading
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Tagged famous sights, firenze, florence, Italy, ponte vecchio, sightseeing, The Sunday Traveler, thoughts, travel photography
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