Here’s one of my new designs that celebrates one of our favorite summertime activities: building sandcastles! Our little panda friends have their buckets, shovels, sand, and shells and their little sandcastles look fantastic. I have two versions of the design: boy panda wearing a green and orange bathing suit and carrying a blue and yellow [...]
So Miss Cross Stitch (her blog) is traveling around Germany and the rest of Europe creating amazing street art using embroidery. She scouts for the perfect surface (benches, railings, etc.) and creates a design using colorful rope that fits in with the location. Usually, folks stop to watch and admire. Sadly, sometimes she isn’t allowed [...]
Twenty years ago during the summer of 1991, a friend and I drove across Canada from Michigan to Niagara Falls. I still remember how impressed we were with the cleanliness and variety of offerings at the rest areas along the highway and how friendly were all the locals. The falls were, of course, quite breathtaking [...]