Archive | June, 2012

For Sale – #FriFotos Theme

29 June 2012

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For Sale – #FriFotos Theme

Nothing is for sale here (sorry if that disappoints you haha) but the #FriFotos theme this week is titled such for street vendors, markets, and stores. I’ve categorized my shopping by locales (North Carolina, Florida, California, and Caribbean Islands). Happy browsing!   North Carolina Shopping for homes in Oak Island, North Carolina.   Primary color [...]

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Sugar: Frozen Granular vs. Powdered

26 June 2012

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Sugar: Frozen Granular vs. Powdered

This is not a post about cooking but a post about snow! More specifically, about snowboarding at Sugar Mountain Resort in Banner Elk, North Carolina. A Valentine’s Day Plan K and I aren’t so great at celebrating holidays. So, Valentine’s Day was likely to come and go without much fanfare. But, thanks to a last [...]

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Museums – #FriFotos Theme

22 June 2012

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Museums – #FriFotos Theme

While museums are probably a common sighting in cities and town of most any size, they are not places I frequent. I am more of an outdoors and interactive person so can easily get bored inside museums. But, I am always willing to give a museum a try. After all, something unique has been done [...]

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Rooftops – #FriFotos Theme

15 June 2012

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Rooftops – #FriFotos Theme

When I first saw the #FriFotos theme was rooftops, my immediate reaction was to wrinkle my brow and think “hmmm”. Then I started looking through my photos and realized I actually had a variety to choose from. It is always fun to look through familiar photographs with a new perspective and to be able to [...]

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Coastal Virginia in Winter

13 June 2012

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Coastal Virginia in Winter

My trip to the Virginia Beach and Norfolk, VA areas to visit K’s cousins inspired the post I made a while back about Deciding Where to Travel. Sometimes it is easier and can be quite fun to visit a place where you already know someone but you may not have thought about going to otherwise. [...]

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Celebrating Figure Skating Champions: Present and Past

11 June 2012

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Celebrating Figure Skating Champions: Present and Past

Spectacular Seats The line into the Greensboro Coliseum for the Skating Spectacular moved quickly and soon we were searching for our seats once again. K gifted us great seats for this event. The seats were the closest to the rink we had been throughout the competition. We made our way to the lower area of [...]

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Oceans – #FriFotos Theme

8 June 2012

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Oceans – #FriFotos Theme

In honor of World Oceans Day today (8 June 2012), the Twitter #FriFotos theme is oceans. I love the water, especially warm tropical water, so I had quite a number of photos to look through when selecting photos for the theme this week. Here are some of my favorites.   Gulf of Mexico While on [...]

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Figure Skating Like a National Champion

6 June 2012

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Figure Skating Like a National Champion

If I were asked, what my favorite sport is, I would probably say to watch it would be either gymnastics or figure skating. Participation in a sport, the answer is very different, probably involving beach volleyball or snowboarding. While in college, the US Figure Skating Championships happened within almost walking distance of my school. Being [...]

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