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Travel writing about places near and far, mixing on-site photography with scholarly reflection
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View fullsize The Fountain of Neptune in Bologna in the grand plaza.. from the 16th century. The logo for Maserati cars comes from the tip of that trident! 🔱

What I’m reading,
Winter 2026:

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Back Roads of Middle Egypt

December 26, 2025
Tags: Egypt, rural, landscape, water

The Heart of Dallas

July 30, 2025
Tags: Texas, landscape, history, icon, jfk, city

A Monastic Path into Nature

August 01, 2023
Tags: monastery, kentucky, attention, landscape, agriculture

The Kentucky Hills

July 25, 2023
Tags: kentucky, landscape, monastery, books

Thinking on the Sandwalk

May 27, 2023
Tags: Darwin, London, travel, trail, landscape

An Argument for the Sacred

January 23, 2023
Tags: statue, sacred space, landscape, view

The Cross on the Hill

January 19, 2023
Tags: landscape, christianity, symbols, road, tree

Signing to the Interstate

January 16, 2023
Tags: sign, road, landscape, signs, google earth, church

In the Pines

January 16, 2023
Tags: forest, christianity, jesus, landscape, jerusalem

Crosses on Trees

January 15, 2023
Tags: catholic, christianity, story, landscape, Native Americans, tree

Bodies in Landscapes

November 01, 2022
Tags: dubai, street scene, body, city, landscape

Saints and Views

June 01, 2022
Tags: ethiopia, view, saint, landscape, monastery, desert, sacred space

Another Monastery

June 01, 2022
Tags: ethiopia, landscape, plants, monastery, sacred space, saint

Introductory Dunes

April 09, 2022
Tags: dubai, expo, nature, landscape, authenticity, sand, desert

One More Landscape

February 14, 2022
Tags: expo, Saudi Arabia, Mecca, landscape, screens, nation, islam
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