Today was the annual Thanksgiving dinner for the less fortunate on Chicago’s West Side at the Bethlehem Healing Temple. Five area synagogues assist the temple with this event each year by providing the food and volunteers serving in excess of 500 meals.…
Category: Scenes around America
I have had the good fortune of visiting Washington, DC several times this year. Easy time I pass through the capitol, I enjoy seeing the landmarks. Although I don’t always have the chance to be downtown and able to get…
I was in Putnum and Westchester counties in New York State today. While returning to Laguardia Airport for my flight home, there was a beautiful sunset along the Whitestone Bridge. I wish there had been place to stop because the…
During a walk around the tourist section of Myrtle Beach, Dorothy and I stopped into the Sugar Life Candy Store. We’d seen something like this in Atlantic City, NJ. Bins and bins and bins of candy … a huge wall of…
We’ve come across some interesting and informative warning signs during travel in the southern states. As a tourist, some signs provide answers to questions about unfamiliar local anomalies. I’d say that much of the time I ignore these signs but…
Dorothy & I celebrated our wedding anniversary visiting South Carolina. We were in a beachfront property in Myrtle Beach. As much as I like to sleep in while on vacation, I had to set an early alarm to photograph a Myrtle…
A few images taken along the beach of the Myrtle Beach SkyWheel, a ferris wheel. Dorothy and I were walking at dusk to capture a few images of a sunset and found the SkyWheel as an interesting element of the Mryrtle…
This past weekend Dorothy & I were in Philadelphia and south Jersey with Scott & Kelsey. The two states are separated by the Delaware River and there are three bridges that span the river in that area. The Ben Franklin…
I always enjoy the window seat when flying, especially in the daytime when I can take pictures of interesting scenes. Looking at clouds from an airplane provides some incredible shapes and formations. Though most of the time I fly Southwest Airlines…
If you’ve followed this blog from time to time, I’ve had several posts about taking pictures while driving on roads and bridges and in tunnels. Recently we were driving across the Ben Franklin Bridge from Philadelphia towards New Jersey. Like most of the…