Journeys – Page 2 – Hashtag Retired

by Angela

Northern journey, leg 4: Charlottetown

I’ve noted previously in this series of posts how I’d longed to see the Maritimes and, especially, Prince Edward Island. I’m still not sure why—perhaps it’s the romantic name—but PEI has always called to me, even though I hadn’t read the Anne of Green Gables books. About a dozen years ago, we met a charming […]

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Northern journey, leg 3.1: More Halifax discoveries

Maritime delights, continued.
#ExploreCanada #ExploreNovaScotia #CanadaChat #VisitNovaScotia
@CoraRestaurants

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Northern journey, leg 3: The Halifax Public Gardens

Respite and beauty in the Halifax Public Gardens. @HalifaxPublic Gardens #ExploreCanada #ExploreNovaScotia #CanadaChat #VisitNovaScotia

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Northern journey, leg 2.1: St. John NB

The Maritimes saga continues! #ExploreCanada #NewBrunswick @DestinationNewBrunswick

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Northern journey, leg 2: St. Andrews by-the-Sea

First taste of the Atlantic Provinces. #StAndrews #NewBrunswick @ExploreCanada @ExploreNB #AtlanticCanada

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Grand hotel: Wentworth-by-the Sea

The greatest charm of that now-near-vintage Christopher Reeve movie, Somewhere in Time, was the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan, where it was shot. As Reeve’s character explored the hotel, he magically found love in another century, to the tune of stirring romantic strain of Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Pagannini. But my near-obsession with […]

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Sunshine on a cloudy day

Spring is being to seem like the “skipped season.” Winter stalked us right through April. Since then, the temperature has been fluctuating wildly: high 80s one day, then plummeting 20 to 30 degrees the next. I hate those wild swings. They’re as hard on my temperament (sorry, everyone I love) as they are on my […]

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‘I write in ink.’

Dear Frances Mayes, The time I brought The Tuscan Sun Cookbook to you for signing in Chapel Hill, I remember saying, simply, “Can I tell you how much I loved A Year in the World?” You smiled sweetly. I frankly never thought anything else of yours could eclipse that smashing book—which really wasn’t about travel, […]

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Village views

We haven’t been north in nearly two years, which is atypical for us and much too long between trips. As I’m fond of saying, real life sometimes gets in the way. Hopefully, we’ll be back on track with a northward journey in the next few months. In the interim, the dry spell, I’ve gotten by […]

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Growing up with Yankee

I fell in love with New England—technically, my native New England—not on those tedious trips north from Pennsylvania when I was a tiny child, but month by month, on the pages of Yankee magazine. I’ve mentioned before that my father, a first generation Italian-American, grew up in a papermill town in Western Maine. Think Richard […]

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Remembering another Miss Austin

No, not Austen. And not Jane. But they have books and writing in common. It was a verdant Central Pennsylvania summer, and I was in my last term, anxious for graduation. Summer terms were rapid-fire in those days, eight weeks as opposed to the usual ten. Classes met four times a week and, as I […]

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Carolina blue

Continuing an earlier theme that amounts, basically, to “sunshine on a cloudy day,” on this snowy afternoon I invite you to enjoy a petit gout of Carolina blue… North Carolina’s signature blue sky. We had a house in North Carolina for a very short time, in an almost too well planned community between Chapel […]