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Archive for September, 2009

While touring through Romania, I made it my goal to capture a flower in every town we stayed in. Everywhere we turned, the streets are lined with splashes of red and orange, flower boxes serve as medians through lanes of traffic, and every single house has a leafy, canopied garden filled with knots and circles of the most amazingly fragant bulbs of color I’ve ever seen.

Here are just a few to serve as appetizers for the rest of our travels. These are from as far south as Bucharest, through Sinaia, Aref, Poenari, Sighisoara, Brasov, Curtea de Arges and up unto the Carpathian Mountains into Transylvania:

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Pretty, no?? Click on each one for a much closer shot. You may even see a Romanian insect or two ;)

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Hope on September - 22 - 2009
categories: Daily Life

…when one is away too long, Smurfs take over the whole darn place…

small smurfy

Luckily, I am home now and will be updating this smurftastic place with pictures and stories galore. Grab your pointy teeth, capes, cloaks, and favoritest snuggle-bunny, things could get a little scary…

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Hope on September - 22 - 2009
categories: Daily Life
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