Vacations

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

Up with the gulls. Beach view from the eighth floor, Ocean City, Maryland. Road trip, November ’24. +2

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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