Sept. 13 -- Washington, D.C.

Sept. 12 -- A foggy sunday night in NYC

Sept. 8 -- Sunset on the Jersey Shore

Quote of the day...
"Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk." -- Jack Handy

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwDadBnqyVg

Sept. 7 -- Ocean City, N.J. and the beach house at night

Quote of the day...
"Vacation used to be a luxury, but in today's world it has become a necessity." ~Author Unknown

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eJwtjFLj1c

Sept. 6 -- Philly, Atlantic City and finally Ocean City

Quote of the day...
"I just want to say hi to my girlfriend, OK? Yo, Adrian! It's me, Rocky." -- from the film "The English Patient"

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS4giqtbRBM

Sept. 5 -- Sunday night in New York

Quote of the day...
"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people." -- Mohandas Gandhi

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2K9A8tgJS0

Sept. 4 -- New York loves me

Quote of the day...
"Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free til they find someone just as wild to run with them." -- from "Sex and the City"

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltPvWx5MaXA

Sept. 3 --Travel

Quote of the day...
"Keep limber. She's a good girl." -- CC

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhiTsLr29XA

Sept. 2 -- Shadows

Quote of the day...
"There are three sides to every story. Mine, yours and the truth." -- Joe Massino, a gangster

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbAjIii9hgQ

Sept. 1 -- The Paris Metro

Quote of the day...
"I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office." --George W. Bush

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FVesgzBVr4

Aug. 31 -- Arches and a lightpost

Quote of the day...
"I'd rather say nothing and be thought an idiot than open my mouth and remove all doubt." -- Mark Twain

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4JrQpzno5Y

Aug. 30 -- In La Patche

Quote of the day...
"He who has not tasted it has lived in vain." -- A judge in Kentucky talking about Mint Juleps.

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSW67ySCio

Aug. 29 -- Rock en Seine (the sequel) and brunch at Le Fumoir

Quote of the day...
"Even if you win the rat race you're still a rat." -- Lily Tomlin

And you're song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LZx7RZEoLg&feature=related

Aug. 28 -- Back stage and on stage at Rock en Seine

Quote of the day...
"Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have."

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdRaf3-OEh4

Aug. 27 -- Beer

Quote of the day...
"I have at last, after several months’ experience, made up my mind that it is a splendid desert — a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race." -- Mark Twain writing about New York City

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4hsC0nRvZM

Aug. 26 -- Up north

Quote of the day...
"The earth, it loves blood." -- A Russian proverb. (This explains quite a bit. -- ed.)

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtJ7TIa9Y5I&feature=related

Aug. 25 -- A jazz musician, street art and sweets for Ramadan

Quote of the day...
"It is curious how people take it for granted that they have the right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level." -- George Orwell writing in "Down and Out in Paris and London"

And your song of the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nMHGyR_i8g