Mae Travels

Blogging this year has been a good way to stay in touch with other humans during the incredibly necessary lockdown and isolation caused by t...

Another year is coming to an end. It's been an exciting one, with several trips, visitors from various places, lots of cooking in my kit...

Wishing everyone a great New Year! I'm still blogging food, books, travel, and random thoughts at maefood.blogspot.com In the past ...

Once again, greetings for a new year! I've continued with my decision to maintain only one blog, maefood.blogspot.com . I hope you join ...

One year ago, I decided to close this blog and consolidate food, travel, and other blogging into my food blog. I completed almost 350 posts ...

I'm still blogging at  maefood.blogspot.com  ... Black Raku Tea Bowl, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, from our visit there las...

In today's New York Times Book Review : " What's your favorite poem? " Responses to the question are from a number of well...

My book club is going to discuss Ungifted by Gordon Korman. Though we are all adults, we're reading a YA book, so I have written som...

Here's a perfectly nice map of the Matthaei Botanical Garden near the point where you enter the woods. Note that West (Dixboro Road)...

In the woods at Matthaei Botanical Gardens this afternoon it was very quiet. The fall colors have become very subdued. Only a few other p...

Len's photo of a screech owl named Roger, from this morning. This link to Flickr allows you to see all his recent nature photos.

We recently traveled to Fairfax, Cape May, Philadelphia, and Lancaster, PA. One highlight was visiting Longwood Gardens with Arny and Trac...

Bald Eagle on the beach at Cape May. Heron fishing at Lake Lily near the lighthouse. Lake Lily, gallinule From the Ferry be...

Sunset on the first of our several guided birdwalks in Cape May, NJ. It's the season for bird migration here, and therefore birder se...

"Murder at Mt. Fuji" by Shizuko Natsuki is an extremely well-plotted detective story with a surprise ending. If you think about ...

I love to read detective fiction, and I've been looking recently for good lists of writers that I haven't read yet. One theme I love...

View of the accommodation block at Drancy with French gendarme on guard -- from Wikipedia article "Drancy internment camp. " ...