On our recent visit to the UK, Mary and I were struck by the warmth and welcome tones of St Paul's, from the checkerboard floor, to the Whispering Gallery, to...

On this autumn days, the fluffy clouds were moving with the westerly wind, casting shadows with the sun on the dark muddy Thames. This image contrasts gleaming glass in the sun, and the shadows...

There are two ways to get to the Cathedral Redwood Grove near the crest of Bear Mountain in the Felton redwoods of Henry Cowell Redwood State Park

One of the “hidden” gems of the California State Park system is Calaveras Big Trees State Park. It’s not exactly unknown, but it is lesser known. And maybe that’s a...

The story of the founding of the (new) University of Chicago is a good one. Embarrassed and publicly humiliated by the failure of the (Old) University of Chicago in 1886,...

When Mary and I were last in Chicago, we stayed at the Renaissance overlooking the river, the Marina City Towers (known as the Corncobs), the IBM Plaza, the Trump Tower,...