Mae Travels

One more photo from last week when we were visiting Washington and Fairfax.

Last week in Washington, we saw a little-known painting by Samuel F.B. Morse. He's well known for the telegraph and Morse code, little k...

Skating at the National Gallery rink -- Miriam, Alice, and Evelyn, 2012. "Winter Landscape with Skaters" (detail)...

"TinTin" begins in London, where he's a reporter. His exciting adventures take place on the high seas, in an old crumbling ...

Fairfax, Virginia, on a beautiful sunny day in January: the shadows seem very long for the early afternoon. We walked around a small lake...

Inspired by our visit to Japan, we watched Kagemusha , an old film by Kurosawa. The visuals were fabulous: interiors that mirrored the style...

Dragons Netsuke Horse --from the Tokyo National Museum Foxes -- from a fox shrine in Ueno Park. In Japanese mythology, foxes bring luck and ...

The original Korakuen Garden was begun in 1629; it was built for one of the Daimyos, or feudal lords appointed by the Edo Shogun. The red m...

From the Edo Tokyo Museum: an idealized street scene from the past. . . and several street photos that I took while walking around last week...