Windows: Room with a View

Room with an Ocean View, Montego Bay, Jamaica

This fabulous view of the ocean is from one of the bedrooms of the beautiful Jamaican Georgian style Rose Hall Great House near Montego Bay. Legend has it that Annie Palmer, who owned in this house at one time, was a "white witch" who murdered three of her husbands. This was Annie's view from her bedroom...

Street Art: I Lost My Head

I lost my head, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Quebec City is one of the most beautiful cities I've ever visited! It also has an interesting collection of Street Art. Under the overpass of Of Highway 440 and Boulevard Charest in the Saint-Roch district, I found this beauty.

My NY, NY: Purple Manhattan

View of Manhattan Skyline in Purple, NY, NY

My NY, NY: Sunrise in the City

View from the Manhattan East Side: Sunrise in Queens, NY

A ~ Z of Marvelousness: G is for Graffiti

Graffiti (or is it Street Art?)

• What's the difference between Graffiti and Street Art ? this

• This marvelous yellow wall might be the perfect cross between the two...

A ~ Z of Marvelousness: C is for Coffee

Coffee

• I prefer my coffee black but enjoyed this particularly pretty cup at 71 Irving Place, Gramercy, New York City, Irving Farm being one of the best coffee roasters out there.
• Where to even start singing the praises of coffee? The smell of coffee on a cold winter morning, sitting on the sidewalk, people-watching, sipping on a cup of coffee. Fellow coffee drinkers (the great like-minded) agreeing that coffee is always a good idea... Anticipating that first cup of coffee is often the greatest motivator to get out of bed.
• I know that Java refers to beans produced on the Indonesian island of Java but it does rolls beautifully off the tongue…
• A guy called Sheik Omar discovered coffee. After being exiled from Yemen, he started chewing on berries from a shrub to foil starvation. After roasting the bitter berries, he discovered their flavor and after boiling them he discovered the deliciously fragrant taste of coffee… People were so impressed with his discovery that he was invited back to his country and made a saint..

Doors: Periwinkle in Autumn

Alexandria, VA, USA

Doors: New York ~ Number 204

East Village, New York, NY, USA

Sunset: Shadowy

Nassau, Bahamas

Sunset: Flame

Sandy Hook, New Jersey, USA