Lunch al fresco with friends at Pringle Bay,

South Africa, during trip to Cape Town

for reunion of Rotary scholars

Display at the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival

in Washington State enjoyed with my sister

Cheryl for her 50th birthday

A temple in Bali, Indonesia, that in this photo

resembles a watercolor (look closely

for the dog in the foreground)

Local pageant for Gubbio crossbow festival

in Umbria, Italy(which I write about

for National Geographic's website)

Two children in Malay quarter of Cape Town,

where many of the houses are painted

in a range of pastel shades

A father and his twin sons, in their

crocheted caps, leaving a mosque

in Medan, Sumatra, after midday prayers

View of the countryside from a high

lookout tower in San Gimignano, Italy

(before the dizzying climb back down the spiral stairs)

A Chinese-Batak boy in Sumatra who

wandered freely among guests

at a wedding in Sumatra (I wanted

to take him home with me)

"The Woods" coffeeshop, perched on boulders

by the causeway in Bellingham, Washington,

offers fabulous jumbo scones and killer views

Young orangutan at a wildlife facility in Winaraset,

Kalimantan (the Indonesian part of Borneo),

quarantined for hepatitis

A postcard view of the

most familiar dome in Florence, Italy

Mother and daughter in Dayak village

we visited during trip up Mahakam River

in Kalimantan (Borneo) by motorized canoe

Paddling the clear waters alongside

our teak schooner in the islands of

Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara

Artful fruit plate at cafe in Bellingham,

Washington's Fairhaven historic district

Elderly woman watering her garden in Tuscany,  

Italy, brought to mind my father's grandmother 

whom I knew growing up in southeastern Ohio

Plate of decorated Valentine's Day

cookies made from a recipe in one of my

all-time favorite cookbooks: The Silver Palate