Mainely Me, albeit just in this photograph in Acadia National Park.

The coast of Maine is beautiful and unique, and it is on my annual list of things to do (or to travel to), just like Death Valley in California. Obviously, the two couldn't be more different, but both are spectacular, stunningly beautiful, and very much soul-cleansing!

Gondole, Venezia.

I love the colors of Italy, and the term 'earth colors' could not be more appropriate. For millennia, the buildings of the Roman Empire (and of the entire globe for that matter) have worn the earth's wide palette of natural colors: Ochre, umber, sienna, and also red hues that come mostly from iron oxide.

Where was this picture taken?

Ancient Rome, below ground.

Füssen, Bavaria.

Luncheonette, NY.

Tufa at sunset, Mono Lake.

Rome lives for the tourists -reluctantly. Fashion can be a beautiful interpretation of Roman and early Christian society of over 2000 years ago, but other throwbacks are less successful. The cell phone chat was not surprisingly conducted in a non-Roman dialect, but the Russian tourists flocking to the Colosseum wouldn't really know or care......

God and Wifi at the Oakdell Motel, Waterford, Connecticut.