I nearly overlooked your photos RicMisc!Originally Posted by RicMisc
Never made it to Sicily. Beuatiful. Nice composition in that second photo.
Clearly a Greek temple by virtue of the doric columns, but I wasn't familiar with where. After a brief search is that in Agrigento?
Thanks all for taking a look at Austria.
btw that's the Olympic ski jump used in 1964 and 1976(?)
here's a more recent look from wikipedia
My screwin' around with my new camera.
Piano
"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear."
-As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Don't worry, I didn't crush the flower. I actually didn't do anything to the flower. It was already laying there on a little wall and I just thought I'd take a pictureI loved your first picture, I hope you didn't crush that flower.
Sicily is absolutely gorgeous, the pictures don't even do it justice. Plus the people are amazingly nice and helpful. It was really one of the best holidays if not the best so far. And yes, the temple is in Agrigento. Very beautiful temples and after Acropolis probably the most interesting architectural site I've been, as far as temples go at least.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past - The Great Gatsby
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice - Polonius (Hamlet)
Part of my birthday celebration included a visit to the Alliance air show in Fort Worth Texas.
The aishow is held annually about this time of year. My son and I decided to go this year and to my surprise, a P-38 Lightning in all its glory was sitting on the tarmak. My father flew the Lightning in WW II, so there's a special bond with that plane. Many of the planes are brought in for static displaty only, but forthunately they flew the P-38 including a part in what is referred to as the Heritage Flight. When they started piping bag pipe music through the PA system as the formation flew by, I couldn't hold back a few tears of pride.
The firsrt three below are the Lighning:
Heritage Flight
F-4 Phantom
Lockheed P-38 Lightning
F-86 Super Sabre
P-51 Mustang
North American F-86 Super Sabre
Korean war era jets
Wonderful pictures Gilliatt! I don't know much about planes, but It seems you had a great time on your birthday. Thanks for sharing.
@GilliattGurgle: Great pictures! Particularly love the one with the F-4 phantom and am pretty sure I used to have a poster of one stuck to my door when I was a teenager.
“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”- Robert McCloskey
A butterfly in a park near my office:
Thanks for taking a look.
The aerial shots aren't quite as "crisp" since I switched to a circa 1970's 200 mm lens in which I had to manually focus while the planes were quickly moving. I've been out of practice.
Beautiful. Looks relatively large.A butterfly in a park near my office:
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Thanks, GGIt was a big butterfly and there were several. It was a pleasant sight
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Continuing with insects.
Here's a large "Walking Stick" we discovered, making its way up a Hickory tree.
Note the missing leg.
The bottle is for scale.
Wow! This insect looks a bit like praying mantis, which is quite common around here but I’ve never seen anything like “walking stick” before. It’s fascinating.
They do.
I read through the Peterson's guide and see that they both fall in the same order; "Orthoptera" - along with roaches. grasshoppers, crickets and katydids.
View from my room, on a morning after a snowy evening!
view from win.jpg
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
Autumn and winter are my favorite seasons. I particularly like the blanket of gray that hangs over the city in your photo.
It is amazing how a dusting of snow transforms the enviornment, it softens the urban harshness.
Very nice.
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From my trip to Mumbai for Diwali:
Applying Mehandi:
Gateway of India and Taj hotel
View of the city from the hanging garden
Flower in the garden
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