The Museum d’Orsay Clock
The Musée d’Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d’Orsay, an impressive railway station opened in 1900. The museum holds mainly French…
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German Gun Embankment
It was July 4, and it had just started raining hard when we left the American cemetery at Omaha Beach in Normandy. The bleak weather was kind of fitting to…
Read MoreA-7 Corsair II
Earlier this month, I was able to visit the National Naval Aviation Museum again. Last year I spent a day shooting photos and was later contacted by them to use several images in…
Read MoreGun Over Mobile
Going east on I-10 across Mobile Bay in Alabama, you pass right by Battleship Memorial Park. Stop. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. Exit now and visit the Battleship USS Alabama. This…
Read MoreReady for Take-Off
This week marks my 500th post on my blog. Wow! if you had told me when I started that I would have made it this far, I would had been…
Read MoreThe Henry VIII Gateway at Windsor Castle
It’s been an enjoyable ride through the English countryside and you’re glad to be on a tour bus instead of taking a subway somewhere. You look over and spot it…
Read MoreThe Sheldonian Theatre
In Oxford, England, you will find a round building called The Sheldonian Theatre. Built from 1664 to 1668, it was named after Gilbert Sheldon, chancellor of the university at the time and the project’s…
Read MoreMontpelier, Home of the Madisons
As a child, our family vacations consisted of returning to Virginia every summer to visit relatives. Most of my Dad’s side of the family was from Orange, Virginia. I remember…
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