VOTE FOR CARMEN

Okay, the big election is over. But if you're in withdrawl, you can still vote -- for me!

I've been nominated over at IGOUGO.com for an award for a travel photo in a the Shot of Urban category with my photo called Vegas View.

Please vote for me. :) Please? And tell your friends to vote for me. You all know how competitive I am, but I'd really love to have a travel photo win an award, so I can add it to my resume! Woot!


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Thursday 13 v. 70 Blue Ridge Parkway Pics

Thirteen Pictures from My Leaf-Peeping Trip to the Blue Ridge Parkway


Jim and I took a little jaunt down I-64 to the Blue Ridge Parkway to see some of the fall color. It was a beautiful, if not crisp, fall day. Blue sky, colorful trees, and we ended the day in Charlottesville to get some Bodos Bagels. (And if you've never eaten Bodos bagels, they are the best bagels in the world. Most wouldn't think that the best bagels would come from Charlottesville, but they do!)

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Thursday 13 v. 67 Charleston Photos

Thirteen Pictures of Charleston That Would've Been Better Had It Not Been Crappy Weather Charleston's downtown was beautiful, but the weather wasn't. :)

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Barbados Memories

Here are the Barbados pictures I promised. Enjoy.

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I'm Published!

Thursday 13 below, but check out who got a photo published on the New York Magazine Travel site! (It's the Cafe Du Monde photo)

Foto Friday

It's the weekend. I think I want to do a little dance of joy!

My friend Christina sent me some housewarming tulips. I adore tulips, they really say "spring" to me. The current weather doesn't say spring - it's cold. Brr. Mother Nature's sick joke of dangling 80 degree temps at me and then making it 40. But anyway, here are my tulips:



And then, this is my Pooh Bear with a tulip. I just think this is the cutest picture.