El Capricho. Gaudi in Cantabria, before Barcelona.

We left Burgos on Monday March 6, heading north to Santillana del Mar, our base for a full day of paleolithic cave viewing on Tuesday. Something I had planned the entire trip around- when the caves would be open for tours. We also planned to see El Capricho, the second home Gaudi built/designed for a…

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The Romanesque and Gothic Cathedral of Avila

After 2 days of meandering about Madrid, we picked up our rental car and drove about 90 minutes north eastish. The autostrada on this Friday was open and empty and we saw green pastures on our sides and snow capped mountains in front as we whipped along to the medieval walled city of Avila. We…

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Windmills.

In Spain, as we drove north from Burgos to Santillana del Mar grand windmills appeared, dancing in the distance. When Steve and I drive the open roads in foreign countries we are enchanted whenever we spot wind turbines. They are powerful sources of clean energy and Spain and Portugal, France and Greece have managed to…

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ArtPhotography Five Masks on a Rainy Night. 10.13.22

Us Forever and Ever Adaptable

Mannequin heads-indecipherable in their stasis, but so malleable to the imagination. Charged behind with a stormy cloudy evening, they are eerie- a staged group reflection of the bouncing unpredictability of today and tomorrow as acronyms like GAN (Generative Adversarial Network); GPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer); OpenAI and web.3 become so well integrated into our world.Well really…

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