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Moving To New York Is Like Joining A Cult
The Big Apple. La Gran Manzana. Home of Lady Liberty. Backdrop to all my favorite books, TV shows, and movies. By the time I moved here at age 37, I had already spent time living in other East Coast cities: DC, Boston, Philadelpha. I was a seasoned Northeasterner, finally having arrived atop the jewel in…
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Boxes Made of Stone and Steel
Photo taken on Broadway and 20th Street, walking Northwest from Union Square to the Flatiron District. Featured in the center is the neo-Renaissance Warren Building, completed in 1891. In spite of the catchy blog post title, the building is made of Roman brick, trimmed with marble and terra cotta (per newyorkitecture.com). I bet there’s steel…
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April Showers
I’ve been off social media for one whole week. Haven’t missed it, other than realizing that “Instagram stories” would be the number one place where I would post most of my photographic gems lately. So here I am back on my 15-year-old photography blog instead. I can’t let these images go unseen. Rainy Day in…
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A Spontaneous Visit to Mesa Verde
On our 11-day epic Southwestern vacation, we left a little wiggle room at the end of the trip to be spontaneous. We wound up first in Durango, Colorado, an adorable mountain town 20 minutes from the New Mexico border. Mesa Verde (Spanish for “Green Table”) National Park was a daytrip destination about a half hour…
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Goodbye, ABQ
3 nights in Albuquerque + 4 nights in Santa Fe + 3 nights in Durango = 1 very contented Gina Marie. But alas, it’s over. I cried when I left Albuquerque, and I’m generally not the crying type. Sure, I may have been on Day 1 of my period and sure, I may have just…
Virtually Gina 