The world around you thread

[mtnbkr]

I'm stuck in Glasgow for the weekend before traveling south to Birmingham for the week. I spent the day so far walking around town and absorbing the local color. I visited the Glasgow Cathedral, bought some Scotch (Smokehead and BenRiach Curiositas, neither commonly available in the US per mine or the shopkeeper's experience. The shopkeeper was another dirty 'merican to my surprise), and walked a large 4 mile loop around the main part of town.

Bigger on the inside...


Glasgow Cathedral Front:


Glasgow Cathedral Main Hall:


"Bridge of Sighs" connecting Cathedral grounds to Glasgow Necropolis


William Wallace Memorial (didn't know there was text on the other side...):


Lunch at Bread Meats Bread (Hot Rod burger, SMALL Poutine, and a local lager that was very tasty):


Chris

[Drang]

This was an interesting picture (I thought) that I got on the water the other day. This is where the silty ocean water of the Fraser River hits the dark blue ocean.
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One of the frustrating aspects of on-water photography...the sea always looks pretty calm. These were actually 3-4 footers and tightly packed, with a period of around 2.5 seconds. But that is very difficult to convey on film, for some reason - possibly the loss of depth perception in a mono image? Not sure. But no matter what water you're on, if you try to capture it to show how brave and heroic you were, it just looks like you were making a big deal out of nothing.

Here's a still frame from cell phone video I took south of Vancouver Island, returning to Seattle from our Alaska cruise this past summer:

These porpoises escorted us for hours.
Unfortunately, I got no good scenery pics of Vancouver Island; we stayed aboard during the 4 hour regulatory stay-over in Victoria, since at the time we were planning on spending a long weekend in Victoria in September. (Canceled for medical reasons, alas.)

[Guinnessman]

Grand Cayman BWI

[MolonLabe416]

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The mantle in our condo.

[MolonLabe416]

View from our deck.

[MolonLabe416]

Another view from our deck.

[Maple Syrup Actual]

I got up the other morning and there was a really cool looking sunrise, with kind of a strange mist on the harbour and also apparently lens flare. Looking south that's Salt Spring Island which is a fairly large and populated island, kind of like Orcas in the San Juans just over the border.

I occasionally fantasize about sneaking over to those trees at night and drilling holes in them and pouring in some kind of herbicide but I wouldn't do that.

Maybe I will start putting up posters in the block or two around them warning of some kind of newly discovered tree fungus that results in large conifers falling on houses in the first winter storm.

[MolonLabe416]

Monument Valley, Dec 18.

[Stephanie B]

It rained yesterday and then it got cold. The water that beaded on my car’s roof froze up.



There was a lot more last night, but it sublimated away in the wind.

[Stephanie B]

A truck hauling steel beams, jammed up on an on-ramp to I-95.