Welcome to my blog

I have had many ideas for blogs in the past. I think the idea first came up when I did a photo album along with my travel journals for my family when I first visited Italy 10 years ago. I believe it was my dad who said I should try to become a Rick Steve type. Since then I've done blogs for people to follow along with while on vacation, on facebook and myspace, but I always thought a blog about my normal everyday life would be, well boring.
After giving it some thought and lack of funds (and patience) to host my own website for my photography I thought I would try to combine my photos along excerpts of my life.

This summer, I have been put on a self imposed home arrest, mostly due to the unrelenting heat and no money to take a vacation anywhere cool, literally and figuratively. I've decided I needed a new hobby that I could do from comfort of my newly improved air conditioned house and still have contact with the outside world.

So what will you get from this blog? After stealing ideas from the Barefoot Contessa and from the book Julie and Julia, I've decided to take my love of eating food to a different level and try cooking a healthy meal at least once a week and posting the results with photos. I recently purchased Food You Crave by Ellie Kreiger who makes healthy food that actually looks tasty.

Of course I will also be posting about my family, friends, dogs and travels as they are always my favorite subjects. And then anything else that strikes my imagination. Here is a sneak preview and I hope you follow along to see what I'm trying to cook up and my world as I see it through my camera lens.


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