Category Archives: Flashback Friday

Flashback Friday: Otago Harbour

During the summer of 2003 I made a six-week trip to New Zealand.  It was, of course, winter there, and the colors were lovely, pastel, and subdued.  Toward the end of my trip I had a meeting in the city … Continue reading

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Flashback Friday: Dip Falls

If memory serves, March 1995 was when I made my first visit to Tasmania.  It’s one of the states of Australia, roughly the size of the state of Maine in the USA, and is the 26th-largest island in the world.  … Continue reading

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Flashback Friday: Hamming it up in Heidelberg

OK, friends, it’s Friday again—and time for another flashback.  Let me take you back some 40 years, to student days in Germany.  I played guitar with three young Berliners in a group we called The Rocky Top Bluegrass Boys, and … Continue reading

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Flashback Friday: Meiji #3

Back in February and March I published two Flashback posts (here and here), in which I introduced my free day in Tokyo in 1993 when I visited the Meiji Shrine.  In the first of those I described the circumstances leading … Continue reading

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Flashback Friday: Dubrovnik

While I was studying veterinary medicine in Berlin, CD took part in a work project in the summer of 1973 that took place in Cavtat, Yugoslavia. It was summer vacation from school for me, and I was able to tag … Continue reading

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Flashback Friday: Grunewald Path (revisited)

Back to student days again, when I was studying veterinary medicine in West Berlin…as I’ve said before, one of my favorite places to get away from the pressure of student duties was one of Berlin’s wonderful natural parks, the Grunewald, … Continue reading

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Flashback Friday: The Cheviot Hills

I haven’t taken us back to New Zealand in a while, and it’s about time.  It was December  1992, and I was driving between Wairoa and Gisborne, on the inland road that passes close to Te Reinga, in the eastern … Continue reading

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Flashback Friday: Gifhorn

[Disclaimer:  I fully realize that today is Saturday, not Friday, but please rest assured that I wrote this and prepared the photo yesterday.  I’m spending the weekend at my brother’s place in the mountains in western North Carolina and there … Continue reading

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Flashback Friday: Meiji #2

Two weeks ago I published my first Flashback post (here) introducing my free day in Tokyo when I visited the Meiji Shrine.  In that post I described the circumstances leading up to my visit and I don’t think I need … Continue reading

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Flashback Friday: Wellington BG

The Botanic Garden in Wellington, New Zealand, is my personal favorite of all that I have visited.  I made this photograph in October 1996, near the base of Druid Hill.  My camera was a tripod-mounted Pentax PZ-1, my lens a … Continue reading

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