Modern Art in Not-So-Modern Places… While exploring the beautiful city of Melk, Austria we visited a Benedictine abbey on a scheduled tour. The Stift Melk is known as a Spiritual Cultural Center. It also is a working abbey and a preparatory school. While we awaited our tour guide in a large courtyard, I was immediately… Read More Wanderlust – Melk, Austria
May has proven to be a very special time for me to walk. I have been spending a lot of time, and walking a lot of miles in foreign lands. With my Fitbit (high tech pedometer) on my wrist, I have explored Austria, Germany, and Spain. My Fitbit logged an impressive 73 miles walked over… Read More The Art of the Walk – European Style
The amount of public art that exists amazes me. And my plan to get excited about exercise is working. I look forward to walking with my camera, ever on the lookout for art, in any medium. Here is the art I have found while exercising in April. Park Art… I have shown the Memorial Park statue… Read More The Art of The Walk – Public Art
A while back, in the more trendier areas of our neighborhood, a mystery was unfolding. As we would walk or drive through streets where restaurants and shops could be found, we began to notice art appearing. Art on windows. Art on utility boxes. Art on store fronts. Art on buildings. Graffiti art…of a particular and… Read More The Art of the Walk – A Mystery Unfolds
In a previous post, The Art of the Walk, I confessed an aversion to exercise, especially the type of exercise that is done in gyms. I explored ways to enjoy the tedious process of putting one foot in front of the other. One was walking with a camera. I have decided to showcase the amazing… Read More The Art of The Walk – Jacksonville, Florida
As one… ahem…matures into a person of age, it is important to maintain robust activity. Many go to the gym (my husband is a gym rat), some work with trainers, some do yoga, some run, some walk miles on the treadmill. I have tried them all, yet these activities bore me to tears. Literally –… Read More The Art of the Walk – Walk with a Camera