Merry Christmas and wishes for a peaceful 2026. Thank you all for being a part of this blog and my life.
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TheTravelsketchers Tuesday – 4th week of Advent
The theme of the fourth week of Advent is love. Love is a funny thing – we love coffee, we love to travel, we love our cat… it is a word that we use for a lot of concepts. Love as taste, desire, or even lust. Love as affection or friendship. Much love is self…
This week in The Pearl – December 19, 2025
A good week in The Pearl, quite rainy, but we had nothing like our friends to the north in the Seattle area, nor in areas of Oregon that were hit pretty hard with power outages and flooding. We stayed close to home except to venture out to visit friends and go to a birthday party….
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday Tip
Wherever today finds you, with your own company or in the company of friends or family, Tricia – Travels Through My Lens, and theTravelsketcher wish you joyeux Noël.
A whirlwind with a couple of calm breaks
We left San Diego and our California family and headed to Portland, Oregon. It has been a whirlwind, mostly. Our first stop was Newberg, OR, with our daughter and son-in-law, Alexis. We had lunch with my son and daughter-in-law, visited my other son in Vancouver. We stayed with friends in Portland, then back to Newberg…
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