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We visited Filoli, an historic house and garden, on a beautiful June day. It is located in the foothills just west of San Mateo, CA. We were thoroughly impressed with this beautiful California attraction. The visitors guide on their website (https://filoli.org/visit/visitor-guide/) gives lots more information about its history.
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Sue & I flew to Istanbul on United and Turkish Air. The flights were long (ILM-EWR-LHR on United, then LHR-IST on Turkish Air). Our seats were good on the United portion, but plain old economy and back-of-plane on Turkish Air. We finally got to the ship, the Viking Sky in the evening of May 13th where we met Gillian & Tim. They had arrived a few hours earlier and had scouted out the ship. The ship was quite beautiful, and we had a light dinner and collapsed into our bed for a good night's sleep. The pictures are organized into daily sub-albums to cover our week aboard this beautiful cruise.
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Following their COVID shutdown, Viking cruise line resumed voyages on a number of their riverboats this summer. Sue and I snapped up a cabin on the the second sailing of their new ship, the Viking Fjorgyn for a week-long voyage from Paris to Normandy. Our trip is chronicled in the following albums.
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Plant Delights Nursery in Raleigh NC holds its open days several times a year. Since moving here we are only a couple of hours away, so we try to attend at least a couple of them each year. The displays of plants are incredible, and they always have 4 or 5 buildings full of plants that you can load up and take home, for a small fee, of course.
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Plant Delights Nursery is located in Raleigh NC. Both its gardens and greenhouses are open to the public several times a year.
These pictures only scratch the surface from our Fall visit.
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We went to the south tip of Wrightsville Beach on a mild January day.
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It was a beuatiful January day, temperature in the 70s, so Sue & I went to Airlie Gardens to see the camellias at their peak. We certainly weren't disappointed.
Now to get there again in February for the late-bloomers.
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We were lucky enough to pick the nicest evening of Enchanted Airlie, Airlie Garden's annual display of Christmas lights. Always beautiful, but the mild temperatures made it even more enjoyable.
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Here are a batch of pictures of Sue's garden taken over the course of 2019.
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This was a Fall day at its best -- cool, sunny and a light breeze. The Waccamaw was low, reflecting the Summer's drought, but the views were beautiful, including egrets, ibises and jumping fish. Overall, an excellent kayak trip.
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Sue and I joined Karen and Jim for a two-week long Grand Circle Travel tour, Alpine Villages of Europe. We stayed four or five days in each of three rather stunningly beautiful locations, fanning out from each for daily local area activities:
Stresa IT on the shores of Lake Maggiore Interlaken CH in the Bernese Alps, and Seefeld Austria, a ski-village in the mountains near Innsbruck.The albums, below, are arranged by day and chart our journey through these fairytale mountain towns.
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The Frelinghuysen Arboretum was particularly beautiful on this early September day in 2019.
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I went to Johnnie Mercer's Pier last evening to see the full moon rise up out of the ocean. It was a beautiful, warm evening, and lots of people were on the beach. A brisk wind generated some pretty active waves.
Sunset was at around 8:30 and moonrise was about 25 minutes later, so the sky was pretty dark as the first edge of the moon appeared on the horizon. Some whispy clouds added to the effect.
These were all shot with a Tamron 100-400 zoom on a Canon 7d. Processing in Lightroom.
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Sue and I visited Beaufort for a couple of nights this Spring. The town was pretty, the hotel was quite nice and the restaurants were great. This goes onto our "Go Back" list.
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