Winter Birding
We did some birding while traveling around over the holidays. These are from the Conowingo Dam in Maryland, Codorus State Park in Pennsylvania, and Cape May Point in New Jersey. These are very common birds, …
Tag: Maryland
Selections from the Delmarva Peninsula
This post is from several unrelated spots around the Delmarva Peninsula over the last year, including one stop that has been too heartbreaking to look at. The Delmarva Peninsula is that dangle of land dropping …
Assateague Island National Seashore
Assateague Island National Seashore is most famous for being home to a herd of wild horses. I had been once a long time ago, but Doug had never been. Since we were in the area …
Guinness Open Gate Brewery
Guinness is known worldwide for its classic stout, a favorite of beer drinkers who appreciate its full body and foamy head when served in old-school fashion from a tap at a local watering hole, or …
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge
We took our van on the 3.5 mile paved Wildlife Drive at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Cambridge, Md. We were not disappointed (other than in the lack of spots to pull over!). There …
Ladew Topiary Gardens
I lured Doug into a garden tour by explaining that this wasn’t your regular garden, it was a topiary garden, and thus entirely different. Though it turned out there were way more flowers than topiary, …
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Tudor Hall and the Booth Family
Doug and I briefly visited family in New Jersey, and timed getting back on the road to coincide with the limited schedule at Tudor Hall in Bel Air, Md. Tudor Hall is the Gothic Revival …
Baltimore Museum of Art
The Baltimore Museum of Art was founded in 1914 and has nearly 100,000 items in its collection. If you’re a Henri Matisse fan, you’d be in heaven – they have more than 1,000 of his works. …
The American Visionary Art Museum
The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Md., was founded in 1995 and contains 67,000 square feet of exhibition space. The museum specializes in “outsider” art and its permanent collection is 4,000 pieces strong. CNN …
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Random Sites In and Around Baltimore
By a totally crazy coincidence, Doug and I were visiting Baltimore at the same time as our lovely and adventurous friends Don and Jen. Don was in town for a conference, so we only got …