GIVERNY, France – The watercolors blend together like a taut line flush with the world. The fiery light of day bounces off of the river Epte. Nobody tells you of the bamboos that line the path, but I am telling you now. The people crowd towards the insides, the yellow house, the beating heart. The …
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Postcard from Brent
BRENT, England – The neighborhood as dusk sets is quiet. In the daytime, young people sprawl across the region, hanging about. There is a sense of newness in this particular neighborhood that has ceased to exist elsewhere in London. The neighborhood of Brent is a microcosm of northwest London. Few out-of-towners really visit this part …
Postcard from Paris
PARIS, FRANCE – The streets in Paris are quiet in the mornings. The bakers are not out and about yet, and folks have spacious seating on the rails. Down the side streets one goes, far from even the shadows of the Eiffel Tower. Click on the map of Paris to follow Mae’s journey through The …
Postcard from Bath
BATH, ENGLAND – There is only one way to gain the immersive feeling one has of strolling into one of Jane Austen’s novels, and that is to enter by way of Bath. Bath, named after the baths of Roman times one can take in the vicinity, is a countryside where a myriad of possible activities …
Postcard from Mount Saint-Michel
SAINT-MICHEL, FRANCE – The tide is low. Saint-Michel, archangel in many religions, stands watch over the island. In times like this, when the tide is low, the dark grey quicksand is revealed to surround the mount. From up top, straight lines of wooded territory delineates the grasslands, where white shells lay ontop of the swaying …
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