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FAVORITE |
These are some of my favorite photos - no order, just some
favorites. Click on each for an enlargement.
Edinburgh, Scotland This photo is from my first time in Europe. Perched on a hill above
town, a crowd at Edinburgh Castle gathers to watch the ceremonial daily firing
of the one o'clock gun.
Monterosso, Italy The town on the sea was an amazing sight. We first heard
about this from Rick Steves, although since the train station didn't have a
baggage check as promised, our day-stop here included hiking across a
rugged trail with all my stuff on my back. And it wasn't really in a backpack.
Inis Oirr, Ireland An island off the west coast of Ireland, this was a land out of time. No cars,
not much actually, except pathways and stone walls separating the grazing
animals. We were told the walls are manually disassembled to move the animals,
though it didn't happen that day.
Macau I've always loved windows, and
this set on the side of a house seems to have been through it all.
Lagos, Portugal Some boats off the Algarve cliffs. Though that winter
wasn't particularly harsh where I was, this was still the first moment of
spring, and with spectacular scenery.
Nafplio, Greece Another window, this time with an awning, on a block of several-hundred-year-old houses.
Isle Royale, Michigan The daisies grow smaller and smaller as you approach the tips of this windswept island, and here at the very end, they managed only a couple inches in height.
poas, Costa Rica After a long bout of patience, the skies above the caldera
finally cleared enough to verify we were actually standing at a volcano's edge.
Nile River, Egypt The whole geography of upper Egypt is contained in this one photo - the Nile and its green,
barren desert, and hydroelectric energy.
Cairo, Egypt A lone lute player in the labyrithine Zeinab Khatun house.
near Bellefontaine, Ohio A sunken old dock near an abandoned campground.
Tallinn, Estonia The medieval walls of the city appear through a narrow gap within another tower.
Porvoo, Finland These ochre-colored houses by the river were painted in advance of the Swedish king's passage through town in the 1780s, and apparently the tradition stuck.
Dettifoss, Iceland This photo typifies Iceland - nature with no barriers, as
Kay and Deb get close but not too close to the waterfall's edge.
Hraunfossar, Iceland This photo also typifies Iceland - you'd never know until you're on top of this little gorge that it's actually a cascade covered by lava long ago.
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