Italian stairs and the spaces between them

The “Côte des Légendes” — or, sometimes more poetically, the Pagan Coast — sounds like something from a Breton ballad, and in many ways it feels that way. Stretching along the north of Brittany between Meneham and Amiets-Plage, this rugged stretch of shoreline is a place where granite and myth share equal billing, and where the weather seems to have a mind entirely of its own. The skies here are gloriously indecisive. One moment, a heavy overcast flattens sea and stone into a study in greys; the next, sunlight bursts through in sudden, brilliant shafts, turning the granite outcrops into sculptures of light.

A day trip to Blue Hill, Maine and the Jud Hartmann studio

Hawthorne quote fitting for today

White Strand of the Monks, Isle of Iona There are so many facets to these isles, to the point that trying to capture the spirit of the place with just a handful of images can’t possibly do it justi…

Another trip up Maine