The first is Kerala style swordfish served on a banana leaf, which was fantastic and came with a side of coconut rice.
The third is an elephant getting a bath in the river.
Since the only thing I seem to take pictures of besides bugs are cats…
Here’s a cat in the grass that’s distracted by a bug.
An adorable kitten.
The same adorable kitten a few weeks later.
Aaaaaand now it’s a murder beast.
No transition (but still… brr!):
post-typhoon sky in the evening.
I had never noticed that tower was leaning before…
That’s a 737! You must not live TOO far from Singapore :)
“Murder beast” made me crack up! Hahaha!
While I don’t like (to say the least) Tokyo, I really love my appartment.
While waking up this morning after a little winter storm, I was delighted to be able to distingish the features of mountain ranges, kilometers away - the first time the town pollution was lifted since we arrived.
And then, something caught my eye.
Is that…
No way…
I got my own 37th view on the mount Fuji!
I just got back from a trip to France. Had a great time & haven’t managed to really sort through all 1000 pix, but here are a couple of highlights:
Mont Saint-Michel
(Richard the Lionheart’s heart which is buried in Rouen Cathedral)
Jules Verne’s house
Cliffs of Étretat.
(me admiring Rouen Cathedral)
That is a stinkin’ cool discovery!
Mont Saint-Michel is on my bucket list. Also, that is one artistic selfie! Sweet pics!
Thanks! Can really recommend a trip there! Its been on my bucket list for 23 years, so it was awesome to finally visit it.
As you were (suspensefully I might add) appearing to zoom in on that little red shack atop that white building, I was telling myself, "Hey! It is! It’s that building I remember from the beginning of “Dishonored 2”!
Frederick Meijer Gardens here in Grand Rapids dresses up every year for the holidays, and I stopped by tonight. There’s plenty of lights and such, of course, but the best bit is the train room. They set up a big display of scale models of various landmarks - mostly local, but some international - in the middle of a bunch of plant displays, and run a model train through the whole thing. I didn’t get any good pictures of the train (maybe I’ll go back and try to do better) but here’s a few of the models. This first one is a scale model of the conservatory there on the grounds. Very meta.
Just returned from a fabulous four days in Rome. What a wonderful city! Of course, being an archaeologist myself, I’m even more interested in all the highlights the city has to offer… :-)
Anyway, as it turns out, seagulls are not very shy…
Some other photographs (just a quick pick out of many, many more…):
All photo’s were taken with my iPhone, so not very great quality, sorry about that…
Nice pics!
I’ve been meaning to go to Rome for a while now. Thanks for reminding me to bump it up the list!
You really should, it is fantastic!
As for anyone thinking the first pic is a bad photoshop (I almost thought that myself looking at it…): it really isn’t…
@ineffablebob, trains are cool (well, model ones, as real ones blow), and gardens are cool…but those pics are just downright fascinating! How fun and peculiar.
@mjgreeny75, the seagull made me COL.
I wish that gardens that nice could grow in NoCo.
Two of my recent adventures. Not close geographically. Some kinda rotten cell-phone pics but still mostly nice to share!
EDIT: I guess I should have provided a tiny bit of info. My apologies.
Adventure 1 is at Lake Agnes, Colorado. Not far away from here, my favorite tents (ultralight Big Agnes) are made:
Lake Agnes! A very nice day just below freezing. With no wind, it was much too warm.
Night near Lake Agnes.
My tent in the snow as the moon falls away.
Adventure 2! I went to St. Lucia, Martinique, and (fortunately for only one day) Trinidad and Tobago.
Pictured below: The view of the small plunge/infinity pool at my villa.
A balloonfish right off the private beach of the Windjammer Landing, which I liked. It was mostly middle-aged French couples who wanted to be left alone. Beats a party-place any day. Relax.
Another view from the Windjammer Landing, where I stayed for the first half of my 11-day trip.
Remaining 5 pics are from my pool suite at the Caille Blanc Villa. It’s owned by the Coleman family from New York and just fantastic. The infinity pool is 65-feet long. There are two other pools below this one. The mountains in the background are the Petit Piton and Gros Piton by Soufrière.