The past few days in Washington have been (predictably) busy. We've visited museums, walked past the White House, photographed the cherry blossoms, took a tour of the Capitol Building, visited Arlington cemetery, and sampled the "true heart" of America. But this portion of the trip is winding down (tonight is our last night in the city), tomorrow we're off to New York. ...

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I just read Sarah's blog post about our upcoming trip to Washington DC and New York, and let me tell you that all it has done has made me even more anxious to leave tomorrow. I still have to finish packing (which will have to wait until later this evening) as I am still finishing up some work projects. Need to make sure...

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I'm getting a bit anxious for my upcoming trip to Washington and New York at the end of the week and as a result I can't sleep. Blog post to the rescue. Tonight I went to the 23rd Mayor's Celebration of the Arts at the Winspear. I didn't have any particular reason to go, I hadn't really paid attention to the nominees and...

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Almost exactly a year ago Tom and I decided to go for an evening stroll on Whyte Avenue. It was unsually warm for that time of year, so warm in fact, that after a period of taking photos of the evening traffic (both vehicular and pedestrian), we took in our first patio of the season. It was a particularly lovely evening, we didn't...

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Last night I fully intended to work on the portfolio side of raffaellaloro.com, which I've refreshed with a simple tumblr site. But by the time I wrapped up my work projects around 7, the sun had started to go down and I really wasn't much in the mood for an evening of extended computer work. As it was, I ended up taking some...

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Although it may seem a bit like all I do during my free time is eat out and go see movies, my recent cinematic excursions are really not all that frequent. I followed up last week's film, Last Train Home with The Last Station, which although featuring rail travel was considerably different in theme but still brought me to tears in the darkened...

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Thursday night consisted of a night at the cinema, preceded of course by dinner at Padmanadi (which my chum Leanne described to me as the tasty fake meat place). How I had never been to this particular restaurant in the three and a half years I have been living here I am not sure. Based on the deliciousness of the dishes that we...

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We could all learn a thing or two from Donald Draper. And by that I don't mean how to look good in a suit while drinking scotch, womanizing, or stealing another man's identity. Nor do I mean to infer that we should also learn a thing of two from the actor playing Don Draper, that being how to be devilishly handsome, grow a...

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Now that I've moved it's only a few minutes farther to walk to work, but the extra couple blocks are enough that I'd rather take the train. In the afternoon I will walk from work and I don't notice the added time. I think the real reason why I don't like to walk to work is that I would have to spend some...

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On Friday I went to the AGA for a documentary about Yousuf Karsh with Tom and Sarah. Right now the gallery has a fantastic exhibit of selected portraits taken by Karsh. The exhibit is absolutely inspiring, since Karsh was a master of portraiture and so many of the images on display are those of iconic status.The documentary left me feeling two ways... one,...

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