The Annandale Greenway was designed to connect six parks in the Annandale area - running from Green Spring Gardens westward through the...

Because the following tale seems so outrageous, so unlikely, I initially avoided writing about it. Thinking back to my brief second time...

Goal-setting works for me; in the last three days I have completed two paintings, both Cuban-focused and each playing a part in the...

In two months, I will show new works at a pop-up gallery event in Columbia, Maryland. In anticipation of this I am preparing some new...

This morning we board a flight to return to the East Coast, San Angelo to Dallas to DC. A week in West Texas leaves me with many initial...

Out in what is the driest part of the south - west Texas - my idea of what is vast and open has to be reevaluated. East Coast...

The US embargo combined with the end of the Soviet Union and the last 30 years of economic difficulty, defines much of what one sees and...

Street murals - those eye-catching, breath-holding, spirit-grabbing displays that adorn wherever people live are ever more present. In...

Cities live. Each is born, grows, gets old. They escape mortality, unlike us, by periodically reemerging from periods of somnolence and...

As an aging European-American, I came late to the need for lattes in my life, specifically vanilla lattes. In keeping with the aging...

Lake Braddock - 1.6 Mile Loop - (70.44/70) - 100% And there I have it - 70 miles in 22 sessions during the month of January. Here is my...

Blackwater Falls/White Grass - .89 + 2.0 Miles in Loops - (68.84/70) - 98% Wow - broke the hiking into two different sections - a...

I read somewhere that musicians "paint with sound," paradoxically using a visual metaphor to explain an auditory action. Painters use...

Morning Jaunt - 1.26 MIles Out and Back - (65.95/70) - 94% Ending with a whimper but not a bang. Weather and schedules have finally...

Lake Accotink - 4.15 Mile Loop - (64.69/70) - 92% After a somnolent Sunday, Monday needed a good brisk walk. The weather was cool verging...

Cross-County Trail/Prosperity to Fairfax Circle - 3.96 Miles Out and Back - (60.54/70) 86% After a day spent on my other obsessions, back...

Green Spring Redux - 2.04 Mile Loop - (56.58/70) 80% Barely made it on the road this morning - life is full, family gets sick - but I...

Cross-County Trail/Vale to Lawyers - 4.08 Miles Out and Back - (54.54/70) - 77% The northern section of this 42-mile trail traverses...

Long Branch Stream Valley Park - 4.56 miles Out and Back (50.46/70) - 72% Too dark for much photography at 6:45am with sprinkles of rain,...

Richmond City - 3.93 Mile Loop - (45.9/70) 65% I am now 2/3 of the way to my goal of 70 miles and the end is in sight! Urban dash today,...