[singlepic id=1107 w=480 float=left] Part of our Mt. Etna excursion was getting to hike around on the foothills & lava flows from the volcano. This picture does a decent job of capturing the landscape that we were hiking around in and showing the volcanic ground. I have a few others… Continue reading
[singlepic id=1101 h=480 float=left] I took this while wandering around Catania, Sicily. I knew nothing about it, other than it was something obviously important in town (elephant obelisks aren’t something you expect to see without reason). As expected, Sicily is not rife with Elephants, so a google search for “Sicily… Continue reading
[singlepic id=1098 w=480 float=left] I’ve come upon my folder of pictures from Italy and on initial count had somewhere north of 4k pictures from the trip. My goal is to reduce this number, but there are probably a couple dozen good ones in there for posting. I’ll probably do a… Continue reading
[singlepic id=1097 w=640 float=center] This is another picture that I think is not actually a good picture, but I find it entertaining. It was taken with a wide lens, close to the ground, accentuating the lean. I guess we did it right… Pisa is a tourist trap. Don’t bother. But,… Continue reading
[singlepic id=1096 w=480 float=left] This one comes from Florence, Italy – it’s a shot up the Arno River looking at the Ponte Vecchio, which Wikipedia tells me means “Old Bridge.” After Janet and I left Sicily, which was delayed and almost didn’t happen, we headed for Florence where we’d meet… Continue reading
[singlepic id=1092 w=480 float=center] Here is the photo that should have gone with yesterday’s write up. This is the best picture I have to show the actual dune at the Lake Michigan Overlook of Pierce Stocking Drive. I don’t have anything new or creative to say about it, but I… Continue reading
[singlepic id=1091 w=640 float=center] Back to not dying today – though fevers do apparently yield some odd dreams. Sometime not that long after the trip to Mackinac, there was a trip to the Traverse City area. One of the things to do was go to the Sleeping Bear Dunes –… Continue reading
[singlepic id=1085 w=640 float=center] At long as I’m momentarily on the Mackinac area theme – here is a shot of the Mackinac Bridge at night. As usual, I took a bunch of these to see what different settings would yield. This one was the longest exposure, which I like for… Continue reading
[singlepic id=1083 h=360 float=left] [singlepic id=1087 h=360 float=left clear=left] So, this is an aside from the daily photo, but with the photo of the Canadian tiger swallowtail from a few days ago. I should have taken a bit more time to prep the butterfly photo from a few days ago,… Continue reading
[singlepic id=1084 w=480 float=left] Random dragonfly picture, taken on the same detour to the Cut River Bridge as the previous butterfly shot. This one took a few dozen more bad shots to get one that was crisp enough to use. In the spirit of reducing my photos to a manageable… Continue reading