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Category Archives: Two-fisted Touristing
P&P – Day 2 – The Merchant’s House
In “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre”, my second short film musical adaptation of a classic gothic tale by Edgar Allan Poe, the protagonist is seen working at his desk in a garret apartment, while soldiers of the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, Musicabilia, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged 19th Century, camera, East Village, Edgar Allan Poe, Film Festival, film set, film shoot, garret, go-pro, location scout, Merchant's House, museum, musicabre, New York City, staircase, The Pit and the Pendulum, Theater for the New City, townhouse
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SCHWARZWALD – Views of the Black Forest
The Schwarzwald – Black Forest – is one of the most famously beautiful regions in Germany. Located East of the Rhine and North of the Alps in Germany’s Southwest, this bucolic region of rolling hills, quaint towns and, yes, romantically … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Baden-Baden, Black Forest, Black Forest cake, Breitgau, Brigachquelle, carved wood, Courbevoie, Cuckoo clock, Danube, Elbbachsee, Fachwerk, Freudenstadt, Germany, Guiness Book of World Records, half-timber, Haslach, Hornberg, Pilgrimage Church, Schiltach, Schwarzwald, Schwarzwaldtorte, Triberg, viewing platform, Waterfall, World's Largest Cuckoo Clock
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NEUSCHWANSTEIN – King Ludwig’s Fairy Tale Castle
On a high hill flanked by the Tegeler Mountain in the Bavarian Alps sits Neuschwanstein, King Ludwig’s “Fairy Tale Castle”. King Ludwig didn’t look far to build his fantasy castle. Hohenschwangau Castle, where Ludwig was raised, lies just across the … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged 19th Century, Alps, Alpsee, Bavaria, Castle, Cinderella, court jester, Covid, Disneyland, fairy tale, FFP2, Frauenstein, Hohenschwangau, King Ludwig, Lohengrin, Louis XIV, mad king, Marienbrücke, masks, medieval, Neuschwanstein, Schwansee, selfie, swan, Tegeler Mountain, Versailles, Wagner
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Landing in JFK …
… with the sun shining against a scratched up window. We were arriving in NYC. JFK airport was just below us. But we were clearly too high to land directly. The plane would circle out south of Long island over … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged airport, JFK, Long Island, Minneapolis, NYC, photography, sky, Snoopy, sunlight, window
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ALASKA – Harvard Glacier
We visited Harvard Glacier. Which is just left of Yale Glacier. And up from Vassar Glacier, Bryn Mawr Glacier, Smith Glacier… in College Fjord, Alaska. I’m not kidding. There is a College Fjord with about a half dozen glaciers named … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Alaska, Bald Eagle, Beloit, Billings, Blackstone, Bryn Mawr, calving, College Fjord, Ed Elder, Elephant seals, Glacier, Harvard, Humpback Whale, Kittiwakes, otters, Port Wells, Prince William Sound, seals, Smith, Titanic, Vassar, Whittier, Yale
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ALASKA – High Times, Low Tide, and Wild Life in Turnagain Arm
Mountain Vistas, Sweeping Inlets, and Alaskan Animals Turnagain Arm is a narrow branch of Cook Inlet, in the northwestern part of the Gulf of Alaska. It received its name when Captain Cook went down that way, sure he had found … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Alaska, Alyeska, Anchorage, Bald Eagle, bear, Beluga Whale, Bird Point, Bison, Black Bear, Captain Cook, Conservation Center, Cook Inlet, Coyote, Dall Sheep, Ed Elder, Elk, Fox, Grizzly, Gulf of Alaska, low tide, Lynx, Moose, Mountain, Musk Ox, nature, Northwest Passage, photography, Polar Bear, Portage Glacier, Reindeer, Shonti Elder, tram, Turnagain Arm, wildlife, Wolf
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DENALI – THE HIGH ONE
Caribou, Moose and Bears, Oh My! and the Highest Mountain in North America! That bear at the top is a bit of a teaser. We’ll see him, and his bear companion, and just how close they got to us, later … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Alaska, Alaska Range, antlers, Athabascan, bear, Caribou, Dall Sheep, Denali, Golden Eagle, Grizzly, Lynx, McKinley, Moose, Mountain, National, Overlook, park, Polychrome, Porcupine, Ptarmigan, river, Talkeetna, Teklanika, Toklat, tour bus
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UP THE ALASKAN BUTTE
There’s a Butte, specifically the Bodenberg Butte, in Alaska. It sits north of Anchorage in the Mat-Su Valley, and it makes for a lovely, steep hike and a really good spot on top from which to get some spectacular views … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Alaska, Anchorage, Bodenberg, Butte, Byers, Knik Glacier, Matanuska, Pioneer Peak, Valley
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CENTRAL PARK SILHOUETTES
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Beethoven, Central Park, eagles, Edward Elder, Falcon, falconeer, lamp post, New York City, photography, pond, silhouette, skyscraper, statues
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Overcast Cherry Blossoms
Ed and I returned to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. It’s cherry blossom time. Last year the pandemic closed the gardens, and nobody except for BBG staff got to see the blossoms of the cherry esplanade bloom. This year the Sakura … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged BBG, botanic, brooklyn, Cherry blossoms, Cherry Esplanade, daffodils, festival, first bloom, Fountain, Garden, overcast, peak bloom, pink, Red Elder, Sakura Matsuri, Tulips
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EIFFEL TOWER VIEWS
Making my way through the Great American Southwest posts took the focus off our 2018 trip to Paris. Much has been shared from that visit already, but there’s still more. And how could I have not yet included our trip … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Arche de Triomphe, Claire Eiffel, Ed Elder, Eiffel Tower, France, Gustave Eiffel, heights, Montmartre, Paris, photography, Seine, Thomas Edison
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EASTER KNICK-KNACK HUNT
A Game of Hide and Seek in Photos What I enjoy most about Easter is the hiding and seeking of treats. I best like hiding and having my loved ones do the seeking. It’s just Ed and me together today, … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Beginnings, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged back yard, beads, bear, Blow Up, cows, daffodils, dragon, Easter, frogs, game, Garden, hand puppet, hide, hunt, hyacinth, Lion, mardi-gras, mourning dove, Once Upon a Frog, photography, seek, toys, witch
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Crocuses on the First Day of Spring
Ed and I visited the Brooklyn Botanic Garden yesterday, on the cool, sunny first day of Spring. The crocuses were in full bloom. Deeper into the gardens, the crocuses spectacularly blanket a particular hill.
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged botanic garden, brooklyn, Cherry Esplanade, Crocus, Edward Elder, geese, shadow play, Snoopy, Spring
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ALL OF THE GREAT AMERICAN WEST BLOG POSTS
All 26 Southwest USA Twofisted Touristing Posts Collected in One Spot OK, I can’t actually promise the full Great American West, that would basically be all of this: The area Ed and I toured August 2019, and from which the … Continue reading Continue reading
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Tagged American West, Antelope Canyon, Arizona, Bryce Canyon, Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Colorado River, Death Valley, Grand Canyon, Grand Staicase-Escalante, Hoover Dam, Horseshoe Bend, Lake Powell, Las Vegas, Meteor Crater, Monument Valley, Navajo, Nevada, North Rim, Petrified Forest, Rainbow Bridge, Red Rock, Sedona, South Rim, Utah, Valley of Fire, Walnut Canyon, Zion
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MONUMENT VALLEY
Our final magnificent stop of the Great American West Tour Ed and I took the summer of 2019 was Monument Valley on Navajo land right at the border of southeastern Utah and northeastern Arizona. Certainly saved one of the best … Continue reading
Posted in Arts-a-Poppin', Cinema Scope, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Arizona, Artist's Point, Butte, Ear of the Wind, East Mitten, Great American West, Hogan, Hollywood, John Ford, John Wayne, Merrick, Monument Valley, Navajo, petroglyph, photography, selfie, Stagecoach, Sun's Eye, Totem Pole, Utah, West Mitten, Western, Yei Bi Chei
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Notes from a Composer 