Category Travels

Exploring the desert of Wadi Rum

To stand alone and enjoy the silence and vistas of Wadi Rum is a true privilege. We spent one night in the desert ,camping with Bedouins and made the most of the opportunity to explore the surrounding area. Illuminated only…

Petra by candlelight

Continuing our focus on Jordan this week, I wanted to share with you this image of The Treasury at night. We’d timed our trip to ensure that we could attend the moonlit walk through the Siq to the Treasury, and…

Shards at Mont Blanc

We’ve called this photo ‘Ancient Eruption’.  It features massive spears of rock which rise into the sky near Mont Blanc, France. I share this to continue our French theme this week here on Taraji Blue. This picture continues our week…

Castles in the sky

To continue our French theme this week, I am sharing this image of Saumur Castle. I love its position, not only high above the city it’s also elevated above a number of walkways from where you can obtain an unusual…

Like a sore thumb

I could not celebrate France without sharing this photo. It features three lonely sunflowers in a field of companions who have passed on. We’d missed the sunflower season and were accustomed to seeing row upon row of dead flowers in…

I Live Alone

A lonesome farm building in the Loire Valley, France, captured in wide angle. I really love the soil patterns and the way they lead they eye to the abandoned old building. I wonder who lived there? When and why they…