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Tag: snapshots

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Snapshots | Christmas in Rugby, Tennessee

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December 17, 2023
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Snapshots | “Soaking in” Edinburgh with Kids

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September 25, 2023
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Snapshots | Dunstanburgh Castle Walk

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July 28, 2023
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Snapshots | Keewaydin Island by Boat

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April 17, 2023
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Snapshots | Climbing New Zealand’s Fox Glacier

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February 9, 2023
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Snapshots | Paris in the Rain

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July 7, 2019
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Snapshots | Winter in Ireland

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January 2, 2019

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Summer island aesthetic ☀️ Prince Edward Island i Summer island aesthetic ☀️

Prince Edward Island is definitely a vibe. Save this one to your vacation inspiration board!
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📍1/ Coastal view at Point Prim, 2/ kids running towards New London Lighthouse, 3/ a lobster roll from Water Prince Corner Shop, 4/ house and boat in fields of Victoria, 5/ kids playing on Thunder Cove Beach, 6/ old church at Orwell Corner Historic Village, 7/ sailing on Charlottetown Harbor, 8/ fish mart building in North Rustico, 9/ customers sitting outside Cow’s in Avonlea Village, 10/ yellow houses in North Rustico
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#explorepei #cottageseason #anneofgreengables #maritimes #canadasfoodisland
“Now I see the secret of the making of the best pe “Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons,
It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”
—Walt Whitman 

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Family camping at the Big Eagle Base group camp 
📍Paris Landing State Park
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#tennessee #campinglife #outdoorfamily #madeintn #optoutside
✨ SOUND ON for TGIF vibes, outdoor edition. 💙 Tha ✨ SOUND ON for TGIF vibes, outdoor edition. 💙

Thank goodness for warm weather and Daylight Saving Time. 🙌

Peaceful sunset on Kentucky Lake from the Big Eagle Base group campsite at Paris Landing State Park
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#tnstateparks #madeintn #kentuckylake #outdoorfamily #lakevibes
All I want is 2 acres on the waterfront with a boa All I want is 2 acres on the waterfront with a boat launch and bath house for 35 of my closest friends—is that too much to ask??? 😅

Nope, bc @tennesseestateparks hooked us up for our 6th annual spring holiday campout and threw in a covered picnic pavilion, as well!

In addition, you’ll find…
🌱Open, grassy fields
🏕️Shaded tent areas
🔥Multiple fire rings
🍳Charcoal grill
🚿2 bathrooms with showers

The Big Eagle Base Group Campsite at Paris Landing State Park is a secluded site away from the main campground and lodge, right on the shores of Kentucky Lake. 

Have I convinced you to group camp yet??
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#tennessee #camping #optoutside #outdoorfamily #kentuckylake
“London opens to you like a novel itself. Those wh “London opens to you like a novel itself. Those who prefer Paris or Rome complain that the English city has no precise center, that there is no spot in the city that could be considered the hub around which the wheel revolves…

But the truth is that that is not really how London is apprehended. It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passage, door… 

It is as though [different] landscapes, histories, ways of living, can be encapsulated in a walk around the corner—almost any corner.”

From Anna Quindlen’s Imagine London: A Tour of the World’s Greatest Fictional City
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#london #cityexplorer #quoted #iwalkedthisstreet #strideby
Discovering the landmarks of London by foot! 👣 I Discovering the landmarks of London by foot! 👣 

I think London is one of the best cities to walk. It’s MASSIVE, and when I studied abroad, it was a different scale of distance than New York that took some getting used to. (No, you cannot easily walk from Clerkenwell to Greenwich; I learned this the hard way.)

But it’s an urban landscape for everyday living, in which architectures from different eras blend together seamlessly and become a visual normality. And these iconic landmarks that you’ve seen in books and movies and photographs are so enmeshed with their surroundings that, as you’re walking, they suddenly surprise you with their presence. 

There’s no single “shot” to get; you can approach them and photograph them a thousand different ways, from a thousand different angles, because they’re omnipresent—the backdrop to the infinite unique moments that unfold around them.

📍St. Paul’s Cathedral
📍Westminster Abbey
📍London Eye
📍Clock Tower (Big Ben)
📍Tower Bridge
📍Tower of London
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#london #tlbestshot #afarmag #wanderlustmag mytinyatlas
📷 I’m leading our middle school photography club t 📷 I’m leading our middle school photography club this year, and my favorite technique to teach is frame-within-a-frame. 

I’m obsessed with window pictures, especially when they give views you don’t see every day. They always make me smile, looking back once the trip is over—and they’re the best trigger of wanderlust to inspire the next one!
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#london #bitsofbuildings #tlbestshot #suitcasetravels #afarmag
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