
It’s been a hectic holiday season. We were in Phoenix for Thanksgiving. There were only three weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, and our house was wonderfully full of family for Christmas and New Years. The only night I had a chance to head down to the Country Club Plaza and photograph the lights, […]

I’m a bit late posting this photo, but this was my favorite shot from Valentine’s Day dinner at Cooper’s Hawk on the Country Club Plaza with my sweetie. The main floor of the restaurant is a more casual wine tasting experience; the upstairs is an upscale restaurant. You Might Also Enjoy: Other Plaza Posts Other Wine […]

Have you heard the expression, “down but not out”? I kept thinking of that expression as I walked around the Plaza on an unseasonably warm, sunny day this weekend and turning it around to “out, but not down.” The Plaza Lights were turned off for the season on January 15th, but are still hanging from […]

When the Plaza lights go off tonight, it marks the end of the 83rd year that they’ve illuminated the lovely Country Club Plaza during the holidays. While flurries swirled around me in the cold wind last Saturday night, I quickly snapped this shot from the roof of a parking garage near the Giralda Tower on my […]

Although it was Kansas City’s 83rd Plaza Lighting Ceremony, last night’s ceremony was a first for me and the kids. I didn’t grow up here Somewhere-in-the-Middle-of-the-USA so the ceremony wasn’t part of our family’s Thanksgiving tradition. Plus also, I don’t like crowds. Or being cold. But with a high of 70F yesterday and a sweet […]