Barracks at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Poland It’s awfully easy to sit back and enjoy the holidays surrounded by family, good food, festive decor & congenial company…and forget about those who happen to be alone or suffering from circumstances they can’t control. For them, the tiniest gift can be so special. Minutes ago I brought a carton of eggnog […]
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camera settings: f 5.6, 1/125, 400 ISO Last month I flew back to my hometown of Rochester, Minnesota for a funeral and stayed for a couple days with my family. One rainy morning my brother-in-law mentioned that he was going to Lanesboro to pick up some furniture from an Amish farmer. I jumped at the chance to go. […]
Forget Starbucks! Once you see the grand, opulent coffee houses here, you’ll crave atmosphere, as much as caffeine, when you stop to enjoy your morning mojo. A Hungarian woman drinks cappuccino in the New York Café. Built in 1894, and attached to the New York Palace hotel, it was considered the most elegant and popular of the 500 coffee houses that thrived […]
Election Day here in the USA…standing in one of those ballot boxes today made me think of Morocco’s system for voting. Drive through the rural areas and you’ll see the voting wall simply painted on the side of a concrete building, such as an elementary school like you see in the image below. Candidates are separated […]