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Arts writer of "Mask of the Flower Prince," reformed academic, archaeologist, classical musician, sometime photographer, Minnesotan, all-around good guy. Photos are mine unless noted. He/him/his.
Another for #PalacesandGardens #RedGreenGold, Christmas at the gardens of Hacienda San Angel in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (2023). #photography #Mexico #PuertoVallarta #sunset #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Another for #PalacesandGardens #RedGreenGold, Christmas at the gardens of Hacienda San Angel in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (2023). #photography #Mexico #PuertoVallarta #sunset #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
For #PalacesandGardens #RedGreenGold, Christmas comes to the luxurious Hacienda San Angel in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (2023). #photography #Mexico #PuertoVallarta #sunset #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
December 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
For #PalacesandGardens #RedGreenGold, Christmas comes to the luxurious Hacienda San Angel in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (2023). #photography #Mexico #PuertoVallarta #sunset #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin
For Window Wednesday, this stained glass installation by Rose Simpson at Buffalo Thunder, at the Pueblo of Pojoaque near Santa Fe (2024).
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWForWindows #ArtAdventCalendar
#WindowsOnWednesday #photography #nativeart #nativeamerica #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWForWindows #ArtAdventCalendar
#WindowsOnWednesday #photography #nativeart #nativeamerica #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
December 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
For Window Wednesday, this stained glass installation by Rose Simpson at Buffalo Thunder, at the Pueblo of Pojoaque near Santa Fe (2024).
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWForWindows #ArtAdventCalendar
#WindowsOnWednesday #photography #nativeart #nativeamerica #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWForWindows #ArtAdventCalendar
#WindowsOnWednesday #photography #nativeart #nativeamerica #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
Tropical twilight, looking out onto the Pacific Ocean (2018). #Alphabetchallenge #WeekWforWindows #WindowsonWednesday #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #Mexico #EastCoastKin
December 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Tropical twilight, looking out onto the Pacific Ocean (2018). #Alphabetchallenge #WeekWforWindows #WindowsonWednesday #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #Mexico #EastCoastKin
It is the Pueblo Alto Trail, which is generally considered a moderately challenging route. The section from the canyon floor to cliff top is memorable (see pic). The lookout from my pic is 2 miles roundtrip (1 hour) and the entire trail is 5.5 miles total (3-4 hours). It is spectacular, and remote.
December 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It is the Pueblo Alto Trail, which is generally considered a moderately challenging route. The section from the canyon floor to cliff top is memorable (see pic). The lookout from my pic is 2 miles roundtrip (1 hour) and the entire trail is 5.5 miles total (3-4 hours). It is spectacular, and remote.
For #MountainMonday. I fell in love with Scotland's Glen Coe this spring... especially with the stunning blue sky! #Scotland #Glencoe #Highlands #nature #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #photographersofbluesky #thewildimages
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
For #MountainMonday. I fell in love with Scotland's Glen Coe this spring... especially with the stunning blue sky! #Scotland #Glencoe #Highlands #nature #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #photographersofbluesky #thewildimages
For #stunday, Scotland's Eilean Donan Castle in the morning mist (2025). It's also fitting for today, St. Andrew's Day, with the jaunty Saltire, the white diagonal cross of St Andrew on a blue field. #Scotland #castles #photography #photographersofbluesky #landscapes #Highlands #EastCoastKin
November 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
For #stunday, Scotland's Eilean Donan Castle in the morning mist (2025). It's also fitting for today, St. Andrew's Day, with the jaunty Saltire, the white diagonal cross of St Andrew on a blue field. #Scotland #castles #photography #photographersofbluesky #landscapes #Highlands #EastCoastKin
Indeed! (Here's what it looked like back in the day.) It was part of a vast complex of fine masonry structures across the canyon floor, at its peak starting around the year 900. Chaco Canyon is little known, and challenging to get to, but it is the most important archaeological site in the USA.
November 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Indeed! (Here's what it looked like back in the day.) It was part of a vast complex of fine masonry structures across the canyon floor, at its peak starting around the year 900. Chaco Canyon is little known, and challenging to get to, but it is the most important archaeological site in the USA.
For #stunday. The sprawling ruins in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon (2024). Pueblo Bonito was 4 stories tall, with 800 rooms; abandoned nearly 1,000 years ago. #NewMexico #photography #nps #nationalpark #nativeamerica #ruins #archaeology #EastCoastKin #AncientSiteSunday #SundayStonework #AncientBlueSky
November 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
For #stunday. The sprawling ruins in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon (2024). Pueblo Bonito was 4 stories tall, with 800 rooms; abandoned nearly 1,000 years ago. #NewMexico #photography #nps #nationalpark #nativeamerica #ruins #archaeology #EastCoastKin #AncientSiteSunday #SundayStonework #AncientBlueSky
For #stunday. The ancient city of Delphi, home the famous oracle, is one of the most spectacular sites in all of Greece (2002). #PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography #Greece #ruins #AncientBlueSky #travelphotography #Delphi #archaeology #EastCoastKin #AncientSiteSunday #SundayStonework
November 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
For #stunday. The ancient city of Delphi, home the famous oracle, is one of the most spectacular sites in all of Greece (2002). #PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography #Greece #ruins #AncientBlueSky #travelphotography #Delphi #archaeology #EastCoastKin #AncientSiteSunday #SundayStonework
Another for the #BlueSkyArtShow #warmth theme. An evening #landscape / #riverscape from Egypt with the #Nile (2004). Warm in colors, and certainly in temperature.
#nileriver #egypt #travel #naturephotography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography #EastCoastKin
#nileriver #egypt #travel #naturephotography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography #EastCoastKin
November 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Another for the #BlueSkyArtShow #warmth theme. An evening #landscape / #riverscape from Egypt with the #Nile (2004). Warm in colors, and certainly in temperature.
#nileriver #egypt #travel #naturephotography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography #EastCoastKin
#nileriver #egypt #travel #naturephotography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography #EastCoastKin
Another for the #BlueSkyArtShow #warmth theme. This sunset over the Pacific Ocean was remarkable, almost like an abstract painting with surreal colors (2023).
#EastCoastKin #PuertoVallarta #Mexico #PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography #nature #naturephotography #Vibrant #sunset
#EastCoastKin #PuertoVallarta #Mexico #PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography #nature #naturephotography #Vibrant #sunset
November 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Another for the #BlueSkyArtShow #warmth theme. This sunset over the Pacific Ocean was remarkable, almost like an abstract painting with surreal colors (2023).
#EastCoastKin #PuertoVallarta #Mexico #PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography #nature #naturephotography #Vibrant #sunset
#EastCoastKin #PuertoVallarta #Mexico #PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography #nature #naturephotography #Vibrant #sunset
For the #BlueSkyArtShow #warmth theme. Here's #sunset at Playa de los Muertos, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (2009). #EastCoastKin #PuertoVallarta #Mexico #PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography #nature #naturephotography
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
For the #BlueSkyArtShow #warmth theme. Here's #sunset at Playa de los Muertos, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (2009). #EastCoastKin #PuertoVallarta #Mexico #PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography #nature #naturephotography
For #scape Friday, a tropical seascape. From Manuel Antonio National Park on Costa Rica's Pacific coast. We've hiked out to Punta Catedral, on the cliffs looking out over the water (2009). #manuelantonio #seascape #EastCoastKin #photographersofbluesky #nature
#Photography #CostaRica #ForestFriday
#Photography #CostaRica #ForestFriday
November 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
For #scape Friday, a tropical seascape. From Manuel Antonio National Park on Costa Rica's Pacific coast. We've hiked out to Punta Catedral, on the cliffs looking out over the water (2009). #manuelantonio #seascape #EastCoastKin #photographersofbluesky #nature
#Photography #CostaRica #ForestFriday
#Photography #CostaRica #ForestFriday
This thanksgiving, we're grateful for our rescue dog, who has just as assuredly rescued us. He has a serious visage, but don't let that fool you... he is a complete goofball.
November 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This thanksgiving, we're grateful for our rescue dog, who has just as assuredly rescued us. He has a serious visage, but don't let that fool you... he is a complete goofball.
Also for today's #PalacesAndGardens #people theme, a nod to this staff archaeologist who was working on-site at Drayton Hall, an 18th cent. plantation house near Charleston (2024). #EastCoastKin #photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #SouthCarolina #Charleston #DraytonHall #archaeology
November 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Also for today's #PalacesAndGardens #people theme, a nod to this staff archaeologist who was working on-site at Drayton Hall, an 18th cent. plantation house near Charleston (2024). #EastCoastKin #photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #SouthCarolina #Charleston #DraytonHall #archaeology
For today's #PalacesAndGardens #people theme, a shout-out to this conservator who was working to repair this chandelier at Château de Fontainebleau outside Paris (2018). #paris #fontainebleau #france #palace #royalpalace #castle #chateau #château #history #unesco #EastCoastKin #HumansOfBlueSky
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
For today's #PalacesAndGardens #people theme, a shout-out to this conservator who was working to repair this chandelier at Château de Fontainebleau outside Paris (2018). #paris #fontainebleau #france #palace #royalpalace #castle #chateau #château #history #unesco #EastCoastKin #HumansOfBlueSky
Sharing this picture of Tranent Parish Church, SE of Edinburgh, Scotland (2025). My inlaws have connections here, going back to the 1800s. The locals were surprised--but welcoming--to see us wandering around. #photography #scotlandphotography #Scotland #travel #travelphotography #church #churches
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Sharing this picture of Tranent Parish Church, SE of Edinburgh, Scotland (2025). My inlaws have connections here, going back to the 1800s. The locals were surprised--but welcoming--to see us wandering around. #photography #scotlandphotography #Scotland #travel #travelphotography #church #churches
For #WindowsOnWednesday. The deep interior of Charleston's Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon. A real dungeon where political prisoners were held during the American Revolution (2024). #SouthCarolina #Charleston #PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography #EastCoastKin
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
For #WindowsOnWednesday. The deep interior of Charleston's Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon. A real dungeon where political prisoners were held during the American Revolution (2024). #SouthCarolina #Charleston #PhotographersOfBlueSky #photography #EastCoastKin
For #rockinTues, the evocative site of Clava Cairns in the Scottish Highlands, just outside of Inverness. The standing stones and circular tombs are 4,000 years old, and helped inspire "Outlander." #Scotland #Highlands #ruins #ancientbluesky #photography #photographersofbluesky #EastCoastKin
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
For #rockinTues, the evocative site of Clava Cairns in the Scottish Highlands, just outside of Inverness. The standing stones and circular tombs are 4,000 years old, and helped inspire "Outlander." #Scotland #Highlands #ruins #ancientbluesky #photography #photographersofbluesky #EastCoastKin
for #stunday, a photo snapped near Positano on Italy's Amalfi Coast (2023). #Italy #nature #photography #mediterranean #Amalfi #seascape #EastCoastKin
November 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
for #stunday, a photo snapped near Positano on Italy's Amalfi Coast (2023). #Italy #nature #photography #mediterranean #Amalfi #seascape #EastCoastKin
For the #BlueSkyArtShow theme #Small. This small pendant from the Mixtecs of ancient Mexico shows the skill of the ancient goldsmiths centuries before the Spaniards arrived (2011). #photography #Mixteca #ÑuuSavi #Oaxaca #Mexico #nativeart #archaeology #AncientBlueSky #Mixtec #gold #EastCoastKin
November 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
For the #BlueSkyArtShow theme #Small. This small pendant from the Mixtecs of ancient Mexico shows the skill of the ancient goldsmiths centuries before the Spaniards arrived (2011). #photography #Mixteca #ÑuuSavi #Oaxaca #Mexico #nativeart #archaeology #AncientBlueSky #Mixtec #gold #EastCoastKin
For the #BlueSkyArtShow theme #Small. In the Maasai Mara, mama leopard went to hunt, and with patience we watched her bored cubs come tumbling out of the den to play (2022). #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #leopard #kenya #maasaimara #safari #thewildimages #africa #EastCoastKin
November 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
For the #BlueSkyArtShow theme #Small. In the Maasai Mara, mama leopard went to hunt, and with patience we watched her bored cubs come tumbling out of the den to play (2022). #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #leopard #kenya #maasaimara #safari #thewildimages #africa #EastCoastKin
Another landscape for #scape Friday. The Sandia Mountains, with a glimpse of the Rio Grande (2025). #newmexico #nature #photography #nativeamerica #desert #southwest #landscape #landscapephotogray #photographersofbluesky #AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved #EastCoastKin
November 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Another landscape for #scape Friday. The Sandia Mountains, with a glimpse of the Rio Grande (2025). #newmexico #nature #photography #nativeamerica #desert #southwest #landscape #landscapephotogray #photographersofbluesky #AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved #EastCoastKin
For #forestFriday and #scape Friday, Acadia National Park in Maine. Despite days of rain, the sun shone clear on our final day (2024). #Nature #landscapescape #Photography #peaceful #ocean #PhotographersOfBlueSky #thewildimages #maine #nature #acadia #nps #nationalpark #EastCoastKin
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
For #forestFriday and #scape Friday, Acadia National Park in Maine. Despite days of rain, the sun shone clear on our final day (2024). #Nature #landscapescape #Photography #peaceful #ocean #PhotographersOfBlueSky #thewildimages #maine #nature #acadia #nps #nationalpark #EastCoastKin