Vacations

Times when we spend more than five days away from home and not working.

Atlantic View.

Ocean City Beach. Maryland.

Formal beach attire.

Beach-front Hotels.

Ocean City Beach. Maryland — Looking south, commercial development ceases abruptly.

Commercial Development II — I changed position, and this works a lot better at showing the development without the hotel getting quite as much attention.

Commercial Development — This wasn’t meant to be a picture of this hotel. I was more interested in how commercial development dominates the environment and how the buildings seem to run forever along the coast. +1

Waiting for the sunrise. Ocean City, Maryland. +1

Waiting for the sunrise. Ocean City, Maryland.

Ginger dips her toes in the Atlantic Ocean. Lily Beach, Delaware.

Reeds on the Boardwalk Trail. Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware.

Boardwalk — Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware.

Raymond Pool from the Raymond Observation Tower. Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware. Road trip, November ’24.

Beaver Moon. Road trip, November ’24 — After three days traveling followed by a very busy four days, we were ready to just crash. We stopped for three days in a hotel on the outskirts of Philadelphia to regroup and make some outline plans for our route home.

We’re off on our travels again. On the road again — This time, it is to a four-day business event in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Following this, we will take a slow, as yet undecided, route home.

Welcome to Eastney Beach — No trip back home to Portsmouth would be complete without a visit to the beach — Ginger was getting her nails done, and I spent an hour on the beach and even went for a swim.

Selby Abbey – North Transept window. Selby, North Yorkshire.

Rood screen detail — Selby Abbey. Selby, North Yorkshire.

Selby Abbey with visiting German choir. Selby, North Yorkshire. Being here took me back to my days working for The Diocese of West Missouri. One-minute read.

Selby Abbey, stained glass window. Selby, North Yorkshire.

Selby Abbey, South Transept window. Selby, North Yorkshire.

Selby Abbey, North Transept. Selby Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey and current Anglican parish church in Selby, North Yorkshire.

Curtain — Netherwood Hotel & Spa. taken for no other reason than I liked the texture and the light.

Lounge — Netherwood Hotel & Spa. I liked the light, colors, and ambiance of this room.

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