travel – Brass Ivy Designs

Macedonia

Shelby Navone — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 22:29:26 +0000

On the days that I wasn’t working at the field school in Stobi, we were taken to the cities of Skopje and Ohrid. Skopje, being the capital of Macedonia was an urban city center filled with an eclectic mix of buildings and colossal monuments. Ohrid on the other hand was a near paradise ancient town, nestled into the foothills of rolling mountains along the shoreline of lake Ohrid.

Field School at Stobi

Shelby Navone — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 21:20:32 +0000

I had a trip of a lifetime this summer. I worked my butt off to get myself to Macedonia and Greece for three weeks and I was in heaven every second of the trip. Below are my best photos from the first two weeks spent in Macedonia working at the archaeological site of Stobi.

Our Own Oregon Trail

Shelby Navone — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:05:46 +0000

After spending a little over a year in Fort Worth, Texas we were finally really to make West to Portland, Oregon. We packed up our life and chose to take our mini caravan through a route that cut across New Mexico, the corner of Colorado and up Utah. Needless to say, it was one of the most beautiful drives I have ever been on. I had never seen the giant rocks of New Mexico or the red canyons of Utah and I was more than impressed. I could not have asked for a better view while we physically drove away from one chapter of our life and into the next, half way across the country. It seemed as if these wild, expansive landscapes that looked empty of any human activity, were never-ending. A few times I felt like I was looking on the path to Mordor with the rocky hills that led into peaked mountains. If I ever have the opportunity in the future, I would love to visit those red rocks in Utah again and really explore that otherworldly landscape.

New Mexico

Shelby Navone — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 06:07:49 +0000

Shot moving from Texas to Portland on an iPhone 6.