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Just got photos of this fabulous hotel on Nantucket Island called 21 Broad Street. I love it! The bright, sunny, white rooms with vividly color art and fabrics… but wait, some of that vividly colored art looks familiar, doesn’t it?…

My friend Kristi and her husband Matt own the most gorgeous inn right on the shore here in Bar Harbor, so of course she’s a beachcomber, too. About a week before Christmas, Matt had the (ahem) brilliant idea to commission…

Howie Motenko and Brenda Beckett are old friends with many talents. Howie has been leading photo tours here on Mount Desert Island for a few years now, and they’ve just finished renovating a lovely old Ellis 28-foot picnic boat with…

  On Sunday morning everyone slept late, and I seized an hour to go beachcombing. We were staying in an adorable apartment at the edge of the Barri Gótic (the Gothic Quarter), only a block away from the water. I…

This feels like a birth announcement: The Jealous Curator and I are delighted to announce the arrival of twins! (Twin photographs, that is.) Maybe you remember the package of beautiful bits that Danielle sent me a few posts ago for…

ALERT: lots of photos of dead fish and animals ahead. Please skip this post if you are a vegetarian or squeamish. Mercat de Sant Josep de la Boqueria is a cavernous 19th-century Art-Nouveau-ish structure just off Las Ramblas, on a site…

[Interrupting the Spanish travelogue because life is hurtling along and I’m easily distracted.] The only part of my garden that gets weeded regularly are the edges by the front walk. As I go in and out of the house I…

The Sagrada Família left me speechless. I never studied Gaudí, although my undergrad major was art history. He was mentioned but not discussed, so I arrived at the basilica with no real idea what I was looking at. I knew…

  Our stay in Madrid was only three days – just long enough for the graduation and the saint’s day – and then we hopped the train to Barcelona. The friends we were traveling with had lived in Barcelona for…

The Festival of San Isidro is a nine-day celebration of Madrid’s patron saint, held in mid-May, and we happened to be in Madrid this year for a friend’s college graduation. May 15th is the traditional day of pilgrimage for the saint:…