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Celebrating 10 years with WordPress!

According to a notice from WordPress last week, we’ve hit a milestone: 10 years of blogging, 736 posts! And what a great decade it has been! What started as a lark has turned in to a commitment to keep the content and photos coming — about travel, about photography, about whatever strikes our fancy. Without […]

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Picture Perfect: Christmas 2012 at Bellagio!

(We are republishing this post from Christmas 2012 so you can take a look at one of the most over-the-top holiday rooms we’ve ever seen — the Bellagio Conservatory in Las Vegas. You just may get inspired to deck out your own abode accordingly!! 🙂 I’m one of those rare people who had never visited […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Nighttime

If there’s a more lively place at nighttime than Las Vegas, we just haven’t been there (although Shanghai’s Bund comes close)! It’s “lights on” everywhere — from the dancing Bellagio fountains to the uplighted Eiffel Tower at Paris Las Vegas to the brown turned gold Wynn facade. Nighttime draws people to The Strip where people watching and picture taking […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Split-Second Story

On my first trip to Las Vegas, I wandered in and out of hotel lobbies just getting a feel for the city, the casinos, and, of course, the people who frequent both. These two ladies were dressed for dinner, and I was in the right spot to watch as they posed and giggled. I watched […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Street Life

This week’s WordPress challenge — Weekly Photo Challenge: Street Life — brought me back to Las Vegas where I remembered streets filled with happy people seeking something quite different from what they experience at home. Some “streets” were really overpasses where pedestrians crossed over to the other side or paused to look below at the traffic. […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition

This week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition: Wandering with my camera, I often find my eye drawn to strange bedfellows. Juxtapositions. Foils. Unexpected pairings. Like a table of Santas gambling in Vegas, perhaps? So those normally on the giving end are hoping for a little take on the side? It could happen! WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Beginning

It’s only fitting that the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge would focus on the word Beginning at the start of a new year. The word itself makes me think of many personal beginnings — plans for work, renovations that need to be done to our home, and projects that I’d love to begin (and some I’d […]

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A Word a Week Challenge: Metallic

When I saw the Word a Week Challenge for this week with the word METALLIC, I remembered something that caught my eye this past January. I was driving from the Las Vegas Strip on I-15 to a school in Clark County, Nevada, one morning when the sun glinted off a building near the World Market […]

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Celebration time: 1st Anniversary for Oh, the Places We See!

It’s hard to believe, but one year ago we launched Oh, the Places We See! We had just rented an apartment downtown in our own city of Knoxville, Tennessee, and pretended to be tourists for a couple of weeks — even though we lived nearby in the suburbs. The experience was rich: We joined the […]

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Seven swanky lobbies to see: Vegas hotels (Part Two)!

Come to think of it, selecting just seven hotels from all that Vegas has to offer is a daunting task, to be sure. But thinking of which ones we’d like to see again, these really are our top sites to see in terms of interesting architecture, artful interior decor, and unique features. But they’re also […]