Tag:boats
I was struck by the lemon-yellow building in this scene. It sits at the entrance to the leisure boat marina in Palacios, Texas. In the background is part of the fishing fleet – shrimp, crabs and oysters being the main business in this town. The yellow building typifies one of the things I love about the houses that line the Texas Gulf coast – bright, vibrant, saturated colors. The blue sails and awnings and the red covers on the boats […]
In the summer of 1985 I took off for a rail trip around Europe with a close friend. Having traveled around German, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and (the former) Yugoslavia the previous year, we decided to head to northern Europe and Scandinavia. Having passed through Denmark stopping in Copenhagen, we moved on to Sweden. We were on the train heading to Gothenburg where we planned to stay overnight and noticed the train was unusually crowded. Talking to some other passengers we […]
