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Travel

Desert Water

by Jonathan 20 August 2010 Photography

Bexar County Windmill Water Basin I’ve been spending some time in San Antonio, Texas, and had some time to get out to do some photo-hiking. One of the hikes I took on Wednesday evening got a little more adventurous than I expected. This photograph is of a windmill water basin in Bexar County, in the [...]

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Some things go wrong, some things go right

by Jonathan 4 August 2010 Photography

We’ll start with the right stuff first. Big on the top of that list are more booked jobs. Woo hoo! My shoot schedule is starting to fill-up for the fall, so if you are interested and haven’t contacted me yet, please drop me a line soon! If we’ve already talked, then you’re already on my [...]

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Blog-like update!

by Jonathan 28 July 2010 House and Home

Ahh, Tintern Abbey, UK, Fall 2009. Sadly, it seems that we won’t be making it back to the UK or Netherlands this year. The next time we get to go will likely be entirely for pleasure. That has some advantages, of course–I won’t be occupied with work-related activities for any of our time there, for [...]

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Waiting for a Train

by Jonathan 5 October 2009 Travel

Well, hello, everyone. I know I haven’t written here in a little while. Jenny posted several stories earlier, but I haven’t said anything in a long time. I’m sitting right now at King’s Cross/St. Pancras International Rail Station, waiting to board a Eurostar train that will take me to Brussels. At the same time as I was getting on a Circle Line Underground train to King’s Cross, Jenny was boarding a Circle Line train in the opposite direction to Heathrow.

Tagged as: london, trains, Travel

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Two Money-Saving Ideas

by Jenny 20 July 2009 Travel

Tonight I thought of two random money-saving ideas that I would like to pass along.

Tagged as: Economy, Erin, Saving Money, Travel

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The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife; Absorbing Lighthouse Website; Shipwrecks

by Jenny 10 July 2009 History

Jonathan’s Facebook entry about lighthouses today reminded me of this website that I found on Lighthouses of Australia Project.
True to its title, it contains some decent photos of Australian lighthouses. Scroll down the site a bit, and you will find “Corrugated Lighthouses,” a memoir by a Lighthouse Keeper’s wife. Part 4 of this piece provides an engaging description of the aftermath of a shipwreck.

Tagged as: History, Lighthouses, Shipwrecks, Travel, Water

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Ghosts of Fourths of July Past, Part 2: State College, 2003

by Jenny 4 July 2009 History

My Grandma Gaffron and my Aunt Sue had a prime piece of real estate. At least, they had use of it for 24 hours, time enough to watch of the State College Fireworks in 2003. A new hotel had been built on the edge of town, less than a year previously. Gram and Aunt Sue had rented a room on the side that would face the massive fireworks celebration that was to take place that night. Since the hotel was so new, we could not be assured of our vantage point for the show, but it looked promising.

Tagged as: American Studies, family, Pennsylvania, Summer, Travel, Western Pennsylvania

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Good weekend…

by Jonathan 28 June 2009 House and Home

This was a pretty darn good weekend. I left early Wednesday morning on a train to Washington, DC. I was there for a workshop and to present at the workshop, which I did on Friday morning. I’m told that the presentation went well, so yay for that.

Tagged as: firefighting, neighborhood, trains

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Trip to Santa Fe: Part II: Religious Tourism

by Jenny 21 June 2009 History

Two weekends ago, Jonathan and I watched our friends John and Mari pledge their faithfulness to each other in a stucco-covered adobe church in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Congratulations, Mari and John! It was a beautiful Orthodox Christian wedding. The church itself is Antiochian Orthodox, one chain in the lush emblazoned tapestry of culture and faith that is Santa Fe.

Tagged as: American History, American Studies, Catholicism, History, New Mexico, Religion, Summer, Travel

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Trip to Santa Fe: Part I: How Isolated Is It?

by Jenny 21 June 2009 History

Hi, again. This is Jonathan’s wife, Jenny. Jonathan is currently on the way home from our friend Charlie’s ordination as a priest at the cathedral at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. Congratulations, Rev. Charles Cortinovis!

Anyway, since Jonathan has been busy and will continue to be busy in the upcoming week, I am going to start blogging my perspective of our trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico for another friend’s wedding.

Tagged as: American Studies, Johnstown, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Summer, Travel, Western Pennsylvania

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