The Frenchtowner

Fall and Halloween Pumpkin Patches in Bucks County PA

There’s an abundance of local farms where you can go out in the field and pick your own pumpkin or simply choose from ones already harvested like the ones shown above at Traugers Farm in Riegelsville in northern Bucks County. The pumpkins, gourds and corn stalks grown on these local farms are perfect [...]

February, 22, 2005: Philadelphia Museum of Art
While my friend and I were waiting to see the Dali exhibition, we stumbled across an artist that neither one of us had ever heard of before, Belgian Symbolist, Leon Frederic.
The first image featured here is from Frederic’s “Four Seasons: Fall”. The series portrays the four seasons symbolically with [...]

February 22, 2005
 
One of my favorite things about visiting Philadelphia is visiting Zeus. I come back over and over again to stare up at him and admire his beauty. Zeus is the central figure on the pediement of the Northern frieze of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The sculptures were done by C. Paul Jennewein [...]

This Story was originally posted on February 6, 2005.
Day One: Wendy’s - Atlanta Airport and Marigny Brasserie - New Orleans Louisiana

 
When we arrived in New Orleans, we had not gotten any sleep the night before, and had only eaten an incredibly tasteless and cardboard like breakfast sandwich at the airport in Atlanta from Wendy’s. How [...]

The Chrysler Building May 10, 2005
As we have done before for our trips to Philadelphia, New Orleans and Florida, we are blogging today about trip on Tuesday of this week to New York City (NYC). What follows in our New York City Travel Blog or NYC Travel Blog and Photoblog are our experiences, our photos [...]

Dothan Alabama and Panama City, Florida
The second leg of our trip was to Dothan Alabama and Panama City Florida. Unfortunately, I did not record any of the Alabama part of the trip in photos, but only the part of this trip when all the family took a little road trip to PC Beach, one hour [...]