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Lunch al fresco with friends at Pringle Bay,
South Africa, during trip to Cape Town
for reunion of Rotary scholars |
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Display at the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival
in Washington State enjoyed with my sister
Cheryl for her 50th birthday
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A temple in Bali, Indonesia, that in this photo
resembles a watercolor (look closely
for the dog in the foreground)
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Local pageant for Gubbio crossbow festival
in Umbria, Italy(which I write about
for National Geographic's website)
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Two children in Malay quarter of Cape Town,
where many of the houses are painted
in a range of pastel shades
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A father and his twin sons, in their
crocheted caps, leaving a mosque
in Medan, Sumatra, after midday prayers
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View of the countryside from a high
lookout tower in San Gimignano, Italy
(before the dizzying climb back down the spiral stairs)
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A Chinese-Batak boy in Sumatra who
wandered freely among guests
at a wedding in Sumatra (I wanted
to take him home with me)
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"The Woods" coffeeshop, perched on boulders
by the causeway in Bellingham, Washington,
offers fabulous jumbo scones and killer views
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Young orangutan at a wildlife facility in Winaraset,
Kalimantan (the Indonesian part of Borneo),
quarantined for hepatitis
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A postcard view of the
most familiar dome in Florence, Italy
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Mother and daughter in Dayak village
we visited during trip up Mahakam River
in Kalimantan (Borneo) by motorized canoe
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Paddling the clear waters alongside
our teak schooner in the islands of
Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara
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Artful fruit plate at cafe in Bellingham,
Washington's Fairhaven historic district
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Elderly woman watering her garden in Tuscany,
Italy, brought to mind my father's grandmother
whom I knew growing up in southeastern Ohio
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Plate of decorated Valentine's Day
cookies made from a recipe in one of my
all-time favorite cookbooks: The Silver Palate
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