Travel Pics Theme: G for Grand Canyon
The theme for our travel pics this week is G, for Grand Canyon. The colours, the striations – the sheer spectatcle is amazing.
Travel Pics Theme: G for Grand Canyon
The theme for our travel pics this week is G, for Grand Canyon. Yes, that is a sheer cliff beside these guys. And no, there are no security fences between them and the sheer cliff. It’s a buzz standing out there, I gotta tell ya 🙂
Friday Travel – Cyclo rides and con-men in Vietnam
I took a cyclo ride in Ho Chi Minh city a couple of weeks back. He said he wanted VND500,000 (about $US22) for a half hour ride. I told him that was ridiculous, and offered him VND200,000 (about $US8) – a fair rate, I thought. We haggled, and ended up at VND350 – that’s $US15,…
Travel Pics Theme: G for Grand Canyon
The theme for our travel pics this week is G, for Grand Canyon. You know how people say of (name location) that photos don’t do it justice? Well, when (name location) is the Grand Canyon, then they are perfectly correct. This week we’ll feature images we shot during a single visit to a single location…
Travel Pics Theme: F for Flowers. New Zealand Asters
The theme for our travel pics this week is F, for Flowers. I’ve always called the plants Daisies – but that just goes to show how little I know. They are, in fact, Asters, growing in the bright winter sun of New Zealand. Beside the Wintergarden in Auckland that I spoke of, we also…
Thursday thoughts: Draining the swamp
I think it was a 1986 Apple commercial that first introduced me the concept, but it’s a metaphor that has stuck with me for three decades since then: “It is difficult to remember, when you are up to your neck in alligators, that you originally set out to drain the swamp!” I find that I spend…
Wed Workshop – Dot points = dead message
I am, this week, on a cruise ship sailing around the South Pacific. I say that not to make you jealous – although I AM ON A SOUTH PACIFIC CRUISE! – but to tell you why I am on that ship. I’m what’s called an ‘enrichment speaker’ .. In return for a ‘free’ cruise for…
Travel Pics Theme: F for Flowers. Bat Flower, San Francisco
The theme for our travel pics this week is F, for Flowers. Today’s pic is of the Tacca Chantrieri, or Black Bat flower. They apparently grow well in Australia, and I have seen one in a botanical gardens in Cairns, but this one I spotted in the San Francisco Flower Conservatory, in Golden Gate…
Tuesday Cruiseday – Same Same but different :-)
It’s curious how every cruise-line … in fact, every ship … differs from each other – and yet there is a certain sameness about them all, as well. Shirley and I are currently on the Royal Caribbean Legend of the Seas, sailing toward New Caledonia. This is our sixth cruise, on our fifth ship –…
Travel Pics Theme: F for Flowers. Hydrangea, Auckland
The theme for our travel pics this week is F for Flowers. Today’s image is another from the Wintergarden, in Auckland’s Domain. It is, of course, a Hydrangea – or a high-geranium, as my mother-in-law was wont to call them. Apparently, a more acidic soil turns them blue, and a more alkaline soil makes them…
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