Princeton University campus must be one of the loveliest in the whole country, and we have had the good fortune of residing fairly close to it for nearly three decades now. We probably enjoyed the setting for leisurely weekend outings more times than at all of the nearby state parks…
Last Sunday was a gorgeous day. Just the right balance of sunny and breezy, warm but not hot. The rhythm of our lives – and the peculiarities of the weather swings in our neck of the woods – rarely offer such perfect opportunities to go out and explore, but the…
This past Sunday was a brilliant after-snow day begging for an outdoor activity. In my case, it meant finding a picturesque locale to test out a new camera that I had recently acquired. The historic town of Cranbury – which I inexplicably have never visited before even though my house…
The fall of 2017 has been generous on gorgeous weekends and a few weeks ago we spent one such afternoon in the pretty town of Red Bank, less than half an hour away from our home. This was not our first visit to town but it was the first where…
I have looked at it from a distance for close to twenty-five years but somehow never found time to visit. My collection of UNESCO World Heritage sites should have listed Statue of Liberty somewhere in the first dozen chronologically, given that it is geographically the closest site to where I…
On one of the rare nowadays intraday weekend excursions, we went for the first time to New Jersey’s Grounds for Sculpture, in Hamilton Township, about 45 minutes drive away from our house. It is a sizable park that contains open-air exhibition of several hundred post-modern works of art (plus a…