Sleeping it off in Old San Juan
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013 Posted in Travel, Wild animals and places | No Comments »Heels and suitcase wheels clack on the tile floor. The movie “Casablanca” plays continuously on two TV screens, and is projected across a rear wall. Oversized paintings and photo portraits by San Juan artist Carlos Mercado—colorized in aqua blues and ...
Hardwater fishing
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 Posted in Food, In print/published, Maine days, Travel, Wild animals and places | No Comments »Took off for February adventure with PFE for our latest feature for Maine magazine. Thank you to friends from South Carolina who came along, and to everyone we met in the shacks and on the ice at Baker's Smelt Camps. The ...
Hunt and sip
Monday, January 7th, 2013 Posted in In print/published, Travel, Wild animals and places, Wine | No Comments »A year ago this month, I had the honor of mingling with some smart and scrappy hounds and horses—and the tweed-wearing riders—at a fox hunt near Landrum, South Carolina. This part of the Upstate is great for antiques' shopping and ...
Fall color, No. 2
Thursday, November 29th, 2012 Posted in Travel | No Comments »From a rental car on the narrow roads of the southern Caribbean island of St. Kitts, the views are of coconut trees, coral stone curbs, and brightly painted houses within a few feet of the roadway. ...
Northwest travels
Thursday, September 6th, 2012 Posted in Food, Travel | No Comments »On an assignment in Washington state yesterday, we hopped on the ferry to Lummi Island just in time for breakfast at the Willows Inn. Golden-orange morning light everywhere, and I loved the tea and handmade packaging from Flying Bird Botanicals... We ...
Asheville by the Forkful in print
Monday, June 25th, 2012 Posted in Food, In print/published, Travel | No Comments »We had to to do some heavy research for this assignment. For a 10-page summer feature in Charleston magazine, Peter Frank Edwards and I spent several days walking and driving around edge-of-the-mountains Asheville, NC in search of great food and ...
Fried shrimp, The Black Keys, and me
Monday, May 7th, 2012 Posted in Food, In print/published, Oysters, Travel | No Comments »Love this... as part of our North Carolina seafood road trip feature for this month's issue of Our State magazine, the editors asked about the music we listened to during the assignment. A playlist from contributors (including PFE, and me) ...
Schooner sunset
Thursday, April 26th, 2012 Posted in In print/published, Maine days, Travel, Wine | No Comments »"Everyone is washed over in the end-of-the-day amber sunlight." Check out the latest cover of Maine magazine (May 2012)... a Peter Frank Edwards' shot on the Schooner Olad out of Camden. We'd gone out on a sunset sail with Captain Aaron ...
Sweet Carolina
Sunday, February 5th, 2012 Posted in Food, In print/published, Travel | 1 Comment »Our 13-stop North Carolina dessert tour gets 40(!), photo-rich pages in this month's Our State, a legend of southern publications -- in print for nearly 80 years. What a plum assignment. Peter Frank Edwards and I drove hundreds of miles, ...
Snow is the “S” factor
Monday, January 16th, 2012 Posted in Food, In print/published, Maine days, Travel | No Comments »After a snowy night in Portland we're up early, and soon we’re onto ME-26 and driving north on a route that passes Gray, Bryant Pond, and Paris. "Everywhere, the landscape is buried, and branches of the spruce and pines droop ...
Po’ Boys and Papa Noel
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 Posted in Food, In print/published, Travel | No Comments »Loved getting back to New Orleans for "Crescent City Christmas," an eight-page feature in the December 2011 issue of Southern Living. From the opener: CRESCENT CITY CHRISTMAS: In New Orleans, traditions are as thick as roux. To get your fill in ...
Summer start in Spoleto
Sunday, June 26th, 2011 Posted in Food, Travel | No Comments »In Rome this month after joining PFE Photo for an assignment, I took the chance to go out on a solo adventure. At the Termini Stazione in the late afternoon, I pulled my smallest suitcase onto a train that followed ...