Genre: Intimate Landscapes

  • Kamakura Temples

    Kamakura Temples

    Kamakura is a pretty city in Kanagawa prefecture south of Tokyo. It has some notable temples, including Hasedera and Kotoku-in. All but one of the images in this post were taken on the grounds of the former. The original Hasedera temple dates back to the 8th century, although the building above has been rebuilt more

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  • Medusa

    Medusa

    Cambridge, England. November 2024.

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  • Last of Leadville

    Last of Leadville

    This post is not just the last of Leadville, it is the last of 2025. It is the completion of three years of weekly blog posts, which does seem like an accomplishment and a good time for some reflection. I hope that all of you who subscribe enjoy receiving them each week in your inbox.

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  • Leadville Fall Color

    Leadville Fall Color

    I didn’t have enough time in Leadville, Colorado, to thoroughly explore the area (as if you can ever thoroughly explore an area in the Rocky Mountains), but I would say that it does not have the massive stands of aspen trees that you find near, for example, Kebler Pass, 50 miles to the southwest, an

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  • Autumn Drive in Northern Colorado

    Autumn Drive in Northern Colorado

    In early October—before our visit to Michigan—we spent a weekend in Leadville, Colorado. Family events collided with our getaway, so we ended up spending one day driving north to Wyoming and back. It was dark on the return trip, but on the way up we got to enjoy driving through valleys sporting some fall color.

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  • Michigan Five-O

    Michigan Five-O

    The title of this post is a nod to the popular TV show of my youth, of which I remember nothing other than the intro and theme song and a single oft-repeated line: “Book ’em, Danno.” While Hawaii was the fiftieth state to join the Union (from which the TV show got its name), it

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  • Ascension

    Ascension

    Finikia, Santorini, Greece. April 2022.

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  • A Streetcar Lacking Desire

    A Streetcar Lacking Desire

    Casper Mountain, Wyoming. May 2025.

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  • Buttercup Barn

    Buttercup Barn

    Yorkshire, England. June 2025.

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  • Desoto State Park

    Desoto State Park

    For the next few weeks I am going to circle back to Alabama and fill in a few entries that got squeezed out by the Yorkshire trip. We’ll start with Desoto State Park in far northeast Alabama. The part is divided into two disjoint pieces: the main section with the campgrounds (where Google Maps will

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