Another great pictorial from The Big Picture.
more fire and ice photos
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hoarfrost and ice fog
Either on bike or on foot, I’ve been out often with Sasha in the winter wonderland.
A hungry coyote tried to lure Sasha away from me, into the trees.
Sadly, I never got a photo of the coyote.
Olympic Torch photos
Waldorf School at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary.
The torch descended by Bobsled and Snowboard. Came up on the chair lift.
Merry Christmas from Peter and Joyce
Peter Long has once again posted an entertaining Year in Review Christmas Card.
Click through it you want to see what retirees in Florida get up to … Year in Review Christmas Card
Durbar Square, Kathmandu
I tried to play the gallant world savvy traveler, inviting 2 young Canadian tourists to ride from the airport to Thamel with me. I’d show them the ropes in chaotic Nepal.
I needn’t have worried. One of the girls had been volunteering in India for the past 10 months. She was far more capable of managing the chaos than I.
Here are some pics from historic Durbar Square.
Feeding the sacred cows …
Pidgeons and dogs are not sacred. But they get far more of the offerings than the cows.
more Kathmandu photos
amazing bridges
Kate sent me one of those viral emails jammed with wild bridge photos.
I won’t do that to you.
It did get me going on the Internet looking a bridge photo sites. Astonishing!
Henderson Waves (Chinese: 亨德森波浪桥) is a 274-metre (900 ft) long pedestrian bridge. At 36 metres (120 ft) above Henderson Road, it is the highest pedestrian bridge in Singapore. …
The bridge has a wave-form made up of seven undulating curved steel ribs that alternately rise over and under its deck. The curved ribs form alcoves that function as shelters with seats within. Slats of yellow balau wood, an all-weather timber found in Southeast Asia, are used in the decking. The wave-forms are lit with LED lamps at night from 7pm to 2am daily. …
Click through to see more photos of bridges:
9 amazingly unique bridges you may not have seen
World’s Most Interesting Bridges
hiking / biking Banded Peak, Alberta
Excellent challenge this past Saturday.
It’s become a tradition with the families of some of my hiking buddies to take their sons on this adventure as something of a rite of passage to manhood.
On Sept. 19th, 2009 we took three 13-yr-olds. They had to get to the top … or die trying. …
Thanks Rob for leading our group. It was terrific.
Glasgow … tis nay so dead
Glasgow looks to be a nice tourist city … from what I can see of it through the mist and rain.
But it suffers in comparison to wonderful Edinburgh.
It’s dead compared to Edinburgh.
more Necropolis photos
I’m QUIT to sunny Spain today. Enough of this Scottish weather.
Rick’s High Route to the Matterhorn
Over on my hiking blog, I’m posting photo from my 7-day hike Chamonix to the Zermatt, one day at a time, over the next week.
… Mt Blanc to Matterhorn – day 1
What a fantastic adventure!
Rick McCharles 