Two delicious downtown restaurants: one week: one owner. Rue Cler is about a block from First Durham, a french restaurant and bakery (I’ve heard their blueberry muffins are just excitement for your mouth). A friend and I went. Dinner menus are daily reads, so I couldn’t plan ahead of time (ACK!). They are pre-fixe menus, [...]
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I don’t know really how you say it, but I pronounce it: good eats. On the side of Five Points in the downtown district of the Bull City, sits a gem. Jazz, spinach gruyere dip, vegan and vegetarian choices on a full menu, wines and coffees, luscious desserts, and wifi – really – need I [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Taste of Durham: Amelia Cafe
In the middle of the Brightleaf Square corridor sits a little cafe that serves desserts and real food. I spend 4 hours there on Sunday, taking pictures, talking w a dear friend, and sipping on an espresso macchiato. The cake we chose was moist, texture-perfect, and delicious. I could have easily eaten the entire cylindrical [...]
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Ice. That is what today is about. There is ice, not snow, in RDU. This has been one of the coldest winters I’ve experienced in RDU since moving here in 2000. Note: we haven’t had 24 inches of snow (like in January 2000) or TONS of ice like we had in 2005 (or was it [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Photo Shoot: Sarah Scales – Durham, NC
I had the privilege of taking photos of a great friend. We had fun in her beautiful, colorful backyard and then went to Downtown Durham to the American Tobacco Campus. Fun times. She is beautiful!
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