Story and photos by Lee Daley I’m not sure whether it was “Purple Hills II” or “Lavender Hill with Green” that inspired the Georgia O’Keeffe itch but, when a friend gave me a coffee table book commemorating her New Mexico paintings, I knew I had to set foot on the…

A Photo Essay — Story and Photos by Lee Daley What is it about the Greek island of Santorini that captivates all who visit? It’s easy to credit its beauty to the shimmering blue Aegean, the drama of its whitewashed cube dwellings built atop one another, clinging to cliffsides, some even built cave-like into one. But inexplicably, it’s much more…

Story and Photos by Lee Daley In Prague, my husband and I were searching for the John Lennon Wall. “Just turn down the path along the river and follow the road over the bridge for about twenty minutes,” a local teenager told us as he gestured toward a riverside path below the Charles Bridge. Dressed in…

Story and Photos by Lee Daley Vermont boasts more than one hundred still remaining covered bridges, the most in New England and a testament to America’s golden age of craftsmanship. Often spanning rivers and streams in mountainous regions, covered bridges are inevitably inviting and many are called “Kissing Bridges.” Photographers collect them, schoolkids picnic in them…

Story and photos by Lee Daley Welcome to the Redwood Room — an unforgettable San Francisco destination just steps away from downtown Union Square. Whether at the bar, crafted from an 800-year-old redwood tree. or seated in the extended seating area with its magnificent Klimt artwork display, you can expect superb service in an elegant and…

Story and Photos by Lee Daley The expletive, “get crackin,” takes on new meaning when faced with a Maine lobster. A culinary challenge worth every crunch, consuming the Homerus americanus, known more colloquially as the American lobster, is a rewarding hands-on experience. Considered the “King of Seafood,” lobsters are harvested along the entire New England coast…

by Lee Daley “For me, people come first. I have tried to assert the dignity and eternal importance of the human being.” — Alice Neel

Story and Photos by Lee Daley In terms of size, you could tuck all of Amsterdam, a city without skyscrapers, into a corner of Tokyo or Los Angeles and it might pass for a village. But that would be an oversight. Culturally rich, aesthetically beautiful, easily navigable, tiny Amsterdam stands tall among cities of the world. …

Story and Photos by Lee Daley. More than five million years ago, Mother Nature swept over the Pacific Ocean and — in a burst of hormonal ecstasy — created the first of the Hawaiian Islands, that green pearl of paradise called Kauai. Caressed by warm tropical breezes, Kauai’s idyllic beaches and its ageless, majestic canyons and…