A Tuscan Corner Store
This past summer my husband and I treated ourselves to a night in the Tuscan town of Pienza. We had visited it a few times over the years, but had […]
A Painting With An Interesting View
Most of my painting subjects have had some connection to my direct and memorable experiences as a traveller. But with some subjects, the strong connection has evolved AFTER I’ve start […]
Stopping To Smell The Fleurs
As much as I love lingering at café tables and in museums when I travel, I also like exploring the outdoors – taking hikes and getting off the usual paths […]
An Angelic Experience
When I encounter a sunrise, a painting, a woman, or an idea that makes my heart bound like a young calf, then I know I am standing in front of […]
Reconnecting with Puglia
Where will you travel on holiday once you feel you can? Maybe you already have? In an article I was reading this morning, it appears that the majority of us […]
Lost In Those Views… Again
As the world opens up to travellers again, where’s the first place you’ll go? I’ve seen this prompt a lot lately on social media, as vaccinations roll out and we’re […]
A Natural Sexy Wonder
Il Barolo è il vino per fare l’amore nelle giornate d’inverno, ma sono cose che solo le donne capiscono. Barolo is the wine to make love on winter days, but […]
How A Book Inspired A Painting
… Siena was to me as intimate as a locket you would wear around your neck and yet as complex as a maze. – Hisham Matar, “A Month In Siena” […]
Standing The Silly-Test Of Time
Have you travelled somewhere and decades later it still comes up in conversation at least once a week? Maybe it was exquisitely beautiful or you had a most happy memory […]
Positano Bites Deep
Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone. – John Steinbeck Wow, that has […]
Making The Practical Beautiful
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. Albert Einstein I have a long-standing fascination with the relationship between beauty and practicality, and more specifically […]
100 Mini Vacations Later!
Wow! Seeing all 100 Mini Vacations in this photo quilt brings on a rush of emotions and thoughts! I’ve been trying to sort through these thoughts about this project, in […]
Art We Wonderful by Marion Younan 