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This is one of the guardians outside the Paper Moon Diner in Baltimore. She watches over a fun staff and good food and an eccentric collection of "stuff," as you can see by the hundred or so Pez dispensers in the window behind her. It's amazing what a little imagination can do…
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This is kind of what my head cold feels like, without the color. Patterson Park Pagoda, Baltimore.
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Is that crab smiling? (GO RAVENS!) Crab and shack in the Florida Keys.
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"Mom, that is so cool! How do you do that?" Free range chicks in Key West.
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My first car, a 1968 VW Beatle, which, according to the Car Talk guys, Click and Clack, is less safe than the least safe car manufactured today. (It was great in the snow though!) My point is once again to be extra careful on the road. People are distracted and stressed and…
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In many seaside towns there are sculptures of families waiting… They say that we all have someone waiting on that distant shore, ready to meet us. I guess we won't know for sure until our time comes, but there are a couple of dogs and cats that I would love to see…
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The Grand Canyon, one of our National Treasures. It takes your breath away when you stand on the rim, and literally when you hike into it! You feel at once grand and so small, a wonderful justaposition of feelings. Photo by Paula Post. (Thanks Paula!)
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Where the Cape ends in a fantastic spiral, there is Provincetown, surrounded by water on three sides and shimmering with a luminosity that bounces off the sky and the land and the water. This unique juxtaposition of ocean, sand, bay, and light is one of the reasons that Cape Cod is so…