My cousins Susan told me that the craftspeople who make cutting boards the shapes of states can’t figure out how to make one of Maryland. Just look at a map. All I had in my own head before this trip was “near-DC.” Now I understand how the Chesapeake Bay is the dividing line of the Eastern Shore from the rest of Maryland. I believe the barely-attached western panhandle above West Virginia (less than two miles at its most narrow point!) is delineated by the Potomac River. It’s a lot more varied than I imagined, and I still don’t know the half of it. I shall return!
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- Such fun to spend time with old high school friend Jeanetta!
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- Beautiful Baltimore City Hall
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- Johns Hopkins University, where my maternal grandfather, John McKay, went to medical school in the late 1910s and early 1920s.
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- When the University of Maryland Medical Center expanded, they built outside of the old hospital, and exterior walls became interior walls. The skylight lives up to its name, sky and light!
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- West Baltimore is filled with elegant architectural bones. A Baltimore cultural marker is the frequent presence of marble steps at the front entrances of rowhomes, and a history of residents regularly scrubbing them to make them gleam.
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- Mural in honor of Freddie Gray, who died in Baltimore Police custody in 2015. West Baltimore
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- Rainy twilight in the Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore
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- Kathy was my counselor at Camp Henry when I was a kid! The ties that bind! Annapolis
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- Chesapeake Bay from Sandy Point State Park
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- Maryland State House, Annapolis
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- Annapolis
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- I am so amused by the Maryland state flag, shown on the right here. It think it looks like a medieval jousting flag. Annapolis
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- St. Anne’s Parish (Episcopal), Annapolis
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- Susan Campbell Park, Annapolis waterfront
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- Sculpture of Alex Haley reading to children. From at plaque on the site: “To commemorate the arrival in this harbor of Kunta Kinte immortalized by Alex Haley in “Roots” and all others who came to these shores in bondage and who by their toil, character and ceaseless struggle for freedom have helped to make these United States.” Dedicated 1981.
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- My (Great Peace March) friend Tom on his houseboat in Galesville. After having lived in an RV full-time, I was particularly interested to see Tom’s full-time setup on a sailboat!
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- Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park, Great Falls. Not pictured, another Great Peace March friend Peter!
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- Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park, Great Falls
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- Cute Frederick
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- Old Bay is the unofficial State Spice of Maryland. It goes on anything, not just seafood. I bought some to go the morning I left. I definitely recommend you give it a whirl if you aren’t an addict already.
