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By Artur Ciesielski | Photography
A study of Maja our beautiful mischievous fox terrier. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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What a wonderful question. I’ve been thinking about this a while now. There is a post on the backend of this blog that’s being worked on, titled, Why I Walk. Then the current, print issue of Intelligent Life hits my P.O. Box with that exact question, What’s the best way to travel? I didn’t have […]
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For the last 2 years most of my income has come from online assets and I’m working to increase that amount: it’s going pretty well. Since I have had some success I’ve been thinking of sharing what I do. This idea has had one spurt onto the surface with a website that ended up having […]
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From time to time my thoughts turn to the suffering that goes on in the world, and specifically suffering of a greater people. It is our nature that will probably prevent us from being completely good all the time on a small personal scale from person to person, so I’m not thinking at this level. […]
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At the end of every year I make a list of things I’d like to do the next year. Once I make the list I never really go back to view it. These are but a direction on a map, not the exact road to take. Life inevitably takes its own course. Things change. New […]
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The Festive 500 ( #festive500 ) is a challenge to get on a bike and ride at least 500 kilometers from the 24th of December to the 31st. You get nothing for doing this: no one will reward you, well, except for the cool Festive 500 badge (and I really want that badge because it’s the simple […]
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It’s now Winter and the last of the fall leaves await their final drop. The smell of decaying leaves, the crackle under the wheels and the burst of the final colors before the branches lay bare in the light blue sky signal that my favorite season is at hand, sans the snow. Okay, the real reason […]
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A lovely sandwich. So simple. So good. It triggers recent memories of open faced sandwiches in Norway. In fact, I may have to explore this theme of open faces sandwiches even further.
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A day at Lopez Island part of the San Juan Islands in Washington State, during a road trip in September 2012. Lopez Island is the smallest of the three main Islands that make up the San Juan Islands. Waiting to board the ferry. Boarding the ferry. If I remember correctly, the ferry ride to Lopez […]
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The region in question is Consuegra, where the world’s finest saffron is grown. The village celebrates this fact with an annual Fiesta de le Rosa del Azafrán or in English, Festival of the Saffron Rose. The town of Consuegra is a must if you Castilla-La Mancha. This picturesque village is about 60 kilometers from Toledo […]
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September 2012 – after a failed stay in Rovinj, Croatia I decided to head at random to Salzburg. Rovinj was hot, as hot as Phoenix and I did not get away from the heat to be in it. So from Ljubljana I got on a train through the Alps into what turned out to be […]
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