Nothing tastes better than [only 2nd visit to an actual movie theater after 16 months of "lockdown"] served with [movie popcorn].
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| African Queen 70th anniversary |
But the pandemic remains--
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| Pandemic addition: Order ahead instead of standing in line. |
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| No more touching shared things! All gone-- |
Five of us sat in the same location. Four wondered what on earth I was shooting. One of us just smiled.
I'm a big believer in the nothing tastes better than [view of something] served with [edible item] life-enhancing method..
And I'm a believer in photographing the experience, or what's a camera heaven for?* / **
Allow me to take you with me.
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| Nothing tastes better than [a view of the Lyell Fork of the Tuolumne River (High Sierras/Yosemite)] served with [homemade trail mix]. August 2013 |
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| Nothing tastes better than [hills beyond hills beyond rare California natives near San Jose] served with [homemade banana bread]. March 2013 |
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| Nothing tastes better than [Hermit's Rest at Grand Canyon] served with [Cinnamon roll]. June 2010 |
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| Nothing tastes better than [Elk at Grand Canyon] served with [protein bar]. June 2010 |
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| Nothing tastes better than [Grand Canyon on a cold winter day] served with [hot chocolate and cookie]. November 2016 |
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Nothing tastes better than [Eastern Washington mountains farmland] served with [fresh from the nest scrambled eggs]. June 2018 |
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Nothing tastes better than [dog agility] served with [nothing because I'm in the ring]. April 2014 |
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Nothing tastes better than [London from St. Pauls Dome] served with [um...a device that gives a recorded self-guided tour?]. July 2014(I feel like this is cheating on my theme, but it's the only one of the 3 photos of me while I was there, and the others don't have a view. Took no photos of feet. No hands. No food. But whatcha gonna do?) |
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| Nothing tastes better than [an eager dog about to get a treat] served with [Wild'n'Reckless Sherbet]. June 2020 |
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| Nothing tastes better than [the county fair] served with [a huge chocolate-dipped soft-serve ice cream cone]. August 2018 |
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| Nothing tastes better than [the Death Valley General Store] served with [ice cream on a hot afternoon]. November 2016 |
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| Nothing tastes better than [the Scottish Games in Pleasanton] served with [chocolate/vanilla swirl soft serve ice cream]. (Do you detect a theme here?) September 2016 |
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| Nothing tastes better than [a sister and Haunted Mansion at Disney World] served with [an OttoPop (think "Frozen") Lemonade Juice Bar]. January 2015 |
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| Nothing tastes better than [Tuolumne Meadows Grill, Yosemite] served with [ice cream]. August 2013 |
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| Nothing tastes better than [Rue St. Paul, Vieux-Montréal (Old Montreal) ] served with [a triple tornade ice cream cone]. September 2008 |
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| Nothing tastes better than [Frontierland, Disneyland] served with [cotton candy]. January 2015 |
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| Nothing tastes better than [Disney California Adventure] served with [a Ghirardelli Mint Hot Fudge Sundae]. November 2015 |
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| Nothing tastes better than [the Ghirardelli Store at Cannery Row, Monterey] served with [a Ghirardelli Mint Hot Fudge Sundae]. January 2016 |
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| Nothing tastes better than [Joshua Tree National Park] served with [a ...map!? and bottle of water on my belt]. May 2010 Author's Note: After about 3 hours [so far] of looking through photos for ALL THE TIMES I held up food in front of a view and not finding them (probably lost in "I'll label these someday"Land), I realize that even when I think to take selfies in interesting places, I do it with not-so-interesting backgrounds. Like here: Joshua Tree National Park. And not a Joshua Tree to be seen in this shot. (But the rocks are well-known there, too, so, OK.) |
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| Nothing tastes better than [Red Rock State Park, Sedona AZ] served with [a freshly made turkey sandwich]. June 2010 |
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| Nothing tastes better than [Port Townsend, WA] served with [a hot dog and fries from a popular hot dog hut. And a sister]. May 2021 |
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| Nothing tastes better than [Cannery Row] served with [whatever's in that restaurant straight ahead]. July 2017 |
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| Nothing tastes better than [the Denver Airport] served with [popcorn and mint swirl fudge]. September 2008 - The Denver Airport is a horrible horrible place to have a layover or transfer--popcorn! candy of all kinds! those wafflecones stuffed with ice cream! So much more! I can't begin to tell you how many calories this airport has forced me to eat! (At least... prepandemic anyway...) |
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| Nothing tastes better than [a dine-in theater] served with [whatever you want to order and they will bring it to you]. August 2019
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| Nothing tastes better than [sailing on the San Francisco Bay] served with [Peanut M&Ms]. May 2016 |
I abandon ship for now. My messy digital archive pile of tens of thousands of photos holds more--but where? Why have I not labeled most of them? (Why why WHY?!)? Are those missing photos more like photos of the corndog that I knew that I took at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk--but turns out it was only of the corndog? Or of my legs up, popcorn in lap, watching a movie on TV, surrounded by dogs, which were horribly underexposed?
Mysteries abound.
Enjoy yourself wherever you go, whatever you taste, and whatever you serve it with.
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