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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 grave marker of Adele Brise in Champion near Door County.. composed in Walloon, related to French and still spoken in southern Belgium

What I’m reading,
Winter 2026:

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The Bare Magnolia

September 13, 2025
Tags: Texas, tree, google earth, house

Painted Memory of a Tree

September 12, 2025
Tags: Texas, tree, painting, house, memory

The Magnolia Tree

September 12, 2025
Tags: Texas, tree, suburb, memory, symbols

Meeting in the Middle

August 16, 2025
Tags: Texas, California, fast-food, symbols, region, parking lot, tree

Other Green Spaces

November 11, 2024
Tags: cairo, park, tree, street scene, city, Egypt

Olea Europea

November 08, 2024
Tags: Egypt, ancient Egypt, nation, identity, tree

Olive Tree Barriers

November 08, 2024
Tags: cairo, city, protest, tree, security, museum

Water Profligacy

August 27, 2024
Tags: Egypt, water, development, park, tree

Street Bonsai

February 02, 2024
Tags: Japan, restaurant, bonsai, tree, nature, street scene, city, tokyo

Taking Photos in a Museum

January 21, 2024
Tags: Japan, art, museum, tree

Cityscape as Echo of Pines

January 04, 2024
Tags: Japan, garden, city, skyscraper, tree, tokyo

A Curving Trunk

December 27, 2023
Tags: Japan, tree, bonsai, view, art

Consider the Bonsai

December 27, 2023
Tags: Japan, garden, art, bonsai, tree, personal

Another Park Feeling

December 23, 2023
Tags: Japan, nation, shinto, park, tree, city

Husband and Wife Trees

December 22, 2023
Tags: Japan, tree, sign, sacred space, shrine, marriage
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