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When I was a little girl, we had this towering bookcase of old National Geographic magazines. I would run my fingers along their tell-tale gold spines, trying to choose an edition to pull & read: Uganda Up-Close, Whale Poaching in the North Sea, Balinese Temples. These geographic snippets gave me butterflies, as visions of gilded […]

That impending moment of descending in a jet through the rust red smog of the city. That was my first memory of Kathmandu. It’s a bizarre notion, landing in a city on the opposite side of the planet. My heart swooped with a thousand fluttering wings. From the plane window, I saw haze and square […]

This is a place with a sea salt breeze, rubber kelp strands, and terra cotta sand where the tide runs in rivulets. A place where robin’s egg paint peels away from dinghies docked on the promenade, and where an old lady in a pink sequin beret strolls with her husband in the hazy spring sun. […]

It’s been awhile since my last Wednesday Wandering, mostly because I’ve been busy wandering!  I am “living” in Wales until May, which is the natural course for a young lady with a British fiancé. We do a lot of back-and-forth.  Life has been busy-busy, full of long work hours and steadily warming days. “The Crud” […]

Gift Certificates Just in time for the holiday season, gift certificates are now available in the Bailey Aro Photography shop on Etsy! These are a wonderful gift idea for the art lover in your life. Gift certificates can be purchased here, and they are available in $25, $50, $75, $100, and $150 amounts.  Custom amounts are […]

Some days when I open my front door and breathe in the morning air, some scent triggers the nostalgic region of my brain, and I swoon a little. It’s something sweet and pungent, like the smoke from juniper branches burnt every morning in Himalayan households. Outside their front doors, branches burn in large urns, an […]