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Greening up the Heart of Annandale
The Annandale Greenway was designed to connect six parks in the Annandale area - running from Green Spring Gardens westward through the...
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jamesalbright63
Mar 14, 20233 min
The Impossible Meeting of Artists in Havana - Denys San Jorge
Because the following tale seems so outrageous, so unlikely, I initially avoided writing about it. Thinking back to my brief second time...
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jamesalbright63
Mar 12, 20232 min
Underway: Dipping Brushes into Paint
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...
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jamesalbright63
Mar 10, 20232 min
Painting Havana
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...
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jamesalbright63
Mar 5, 20234 min
Wide Open West Texas
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...
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jamesalbright63
Feb 28, 20233 min
The Dusty Streets of San Angelo
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...
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jamesalbright63
Feb 18, 20234 min
Havana, Street Life
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...
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jamesalbright63
Feb 16, 20232 min
Havana, Watching the Walls
Street murals - those eye-catching, breath-holding, spirit-grabbing displays that adorn wherever people live are ever more present. In...
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jamesalbright63
Feb 15, 20233 min
Havana, City in Amber
Cities live. Each is born, grows, gets old. They escape mortality, unlike us, by periodically reemerging from periods of somnolence and...
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jamesalbright63
Feb 2, 20233 min
Finally, a Review of Annandale's Coffee Joints
As an aging European-American, I came late to the need for lattes in my life, specifically vanilla lattes. In keeping with the aging...
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jamesalbright63
Jan 31, 20231 min
Day Twenty-Two - The Last One! - of the 70-Mile Challenge
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...
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jamesalbright63
Jan 29, 20231 min
Day Twenty-One of the 70-Mile Challenge - White!
Blackwater Falls/White Grass - .89 + 2.0 Miles in Loops - (68.84/70) - 98% Wow - broke the hiking into two different sections - a...
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jamesalbright63
Jan 27, 20234 min
Sounds Without Sirens
I read somewhere that musicians "paint with sound," paradoxically using a visual metaphor to explain an auditory action. Painters use...
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jamesalbright63
Jan 26, 20231 min
Day Twenty (Twenty!) of the 70-Mile Challenge
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...
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jamesalbright63
Jan 24, 20231 min
Day Nineteen in the 70-Mile Challenge - Red (my face)!
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...
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jamesalbright63
Jan 22, 20231 min
Day Eighteen of the 70-Mile Challenge - Raw Sienna!
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...
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jamesalbright63
Jan 20, 20231 min
Day Seventeen of the 70-Mile Challenge
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...
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jamesalbright63
Jan 19, 20231 min
Day Sixteen of the 70-Mile Challenge - Technicolor!
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...
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jamesalbright63
Jan 18, 20231 min
Day Fifteen of the 70-Mile Challenge - Dark!
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,...
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jamesalbright63
Jan 17, 20231 min
Day Fourteen of the 70-Mile Challenge - Pale Yellow!
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,...
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