Posts Blog Archive: September 2014

Harrisonburg's International Festival

When we moved to rural Virginia thirteen years ago, my first social event was a bonfire.  There so…

Country Life & Paper Mills

Few smells are more nauseous than paper mills.  A cold air inversion trapping the pollution in can…

Richmond, Virginia

Almost 150 years after the fall of the Capitol of the Confederacy, Richmond still has an electric …

Fall and Budapest

It was Fall when I returned from Lockn. Odd, that only the preceding day and 45 miles away, it was b…

The Lockn Festival in Ol' Virginny

So good to be home in the Virginia hills.  I didn't realize how much I missed it until I inhal…

Back to Istanbul

Had I not missed my flight in Vienna, I would not have had the chance to visit Istanbul again.  As…