Photo: Beach Artist, Santa Barbara, California

This man creates a new sand sculpture daily at the beach in Santa Barbara. "This is my job," he told us. He lives on tips from passers-by.

New Photo Gallery: Montreal

I just posted a new gallery of photos from our recent trip to Montreal:

New Photo Gallery: Spain

Just posted a gallery of 40 photos from a 2007 trip to Spain:

About time, don’t you think?

New Photo Galleries: Turkey & Costa Rica

I recently posted photo galleries from Turkey and Costa Rica. Have a look:

Hagia Sophia, Istanbul

Rio Celeste, Costa Rica

Translation Fail

I was going through my Turkey photos and came up with this photo of a shop in Istanbul, where my niece Maeve noticed the sign:

I’ve sent it to failblog as a translation fail.

My Kauai Photos

Tunnels Beach, on the North Shore of Kauai.

You can see more photos here.

Photo: Santiago de Compostela, Spain

I took this photo in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in the northern province of Galicia, in April 2007.

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Washington In Bloom

What’s pink and blossoming in Washington?

That’s right. Magnolias!

Oh, and cherry trees:

Photo: Volcano Tenorio, Costa Rica

My niece, Allie Leblanc, snapped this photo from the window of our rented SUV as we drove along a dirt road to the Tenorio Volcano National Park in northern Costa Rica.

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Photo: Goreme, Cappadocia, Turkey

Photos were what drew me to Cappadocia, the part of Turkey where people lived in caves for thousands of years. I took this one myself in February 2008 at the Göreme Open-Air Museum:

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