Thursday, September 14, 2023 →
Day 14 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Statue, suggested by @christopherchelpka
I found this character in Bristol, UK.
Photographs
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 →
Day 13 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Glowing, suggested by @anniegreens
A hotel lobby somewhere in Kyoto.
Day 12 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Panic, suggested by @maique
While I’m not sure that I was panicking, at times I felt uncomfortable as we walked up the switchbacks of the precipitous Halemau’u Trail at the end of our crater hike last week.
Day 11 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Retrospect, suggested by @chadgmoore
This just fitted the bill for me for retrospect. A area from my past and which is still in my heart.
Day 10 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Cycle, suggested by @agilelisa
I miss the annual Providence Bridge Pedal in Portland. This photo (that arm on the left bothers me) from 2014 of cyclists stopping for the view from the Fremont Bridge, normally busy with freeway traffic.
Day 9 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Language, suggested by @thedimpause
If it wasn’t for the pictures of the food in this Kyoto restaurant, we would not have eaten.
Day 8 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Yonder, suggested by @jidabug
Inverness, CA.
Day 7 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Panorama, suggested by @dejus
The audience in Portland welcoming His Holiness the Dalai Lama, 2013.
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 →
Day 6 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Well, suggested by @val
I think that this must have been a well? Now inside a hotel on Lake Como.
Day 5 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Forest, suggested by @ovr
The woodland leading down to the river Avon from Durdham Downs in Bristol, my stomping ground when I was growing up.
Sunset this evening from our lanai.
Hiking Haleakala Crater
Monday, September 4, 2023
I spent yesterday hiking Haleakalā Crater with a friend. The mountain sits at just over 10,000ft in altitude. The crater that is there today is not a classic volcanic crater, but rather a large erosional valley. It is believed that two valleys, Ko‘olau to the north and Kaupō to the south, expanded into the remains of a much larger volcano, possibly 12,000ft high, creating the crater that is there today.
Day 4 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Orange, suggested by @ekcragg.
Day 3 of the September Photoblogging Challenge: Precious, suggested by @odd.
Precious memories of past travels, this in Nepal, 1989 (photo of slide).
Day 2 of the September 2023 Photoblogging Challenge.
Buildup - suggested by @V_
Miami, FL
Day 1 of the September 2023 Photoblogging Challenge.
Abstract - suggested by @greghiggins
Volterra, Italy
Yesterday afternoon I just wanted to breathe some fresh tree air, and headed up to the Каhаkарао Loop Trail. Two and half hours later, and just over six and a quarter miles under the belt, I was back at the truck. A beautiful and welcome hike.
In the presence of giants. Driving through a forest of Red Woods last week in Northern California.
Sunset this evening from Sea Ranch. We also saw some whale spouts and splashes, maybe from their flukes, way off shore, and were wondering if they were making their way to Hawaii? What a beautiful evening.
Walking through the fields, by the coast, at Sea Ranch.
These misty, Northern Californian mornings, fit my being perfectly.
Hike to the bluff and there are three chairs waiting for you to take a rest, and take in the ocean views.
The Northern Californian coast at Sea Ranch.
My grandson roasting a marshmallow at dusk, in PoliPoli Springs Recreation Area, Maui. (Photo credit, my son-in-law).
Now. View over Maui from PoliPoli Springs Recreational Area. The island of Lana’i in the distance.
This afternoon my wife and I took a two and a half mile walk in Upcountry Maui. The cloudy weather created just the right conditions for walking.
A lot of the land that we were walking by belongs to Oprah. Indeed most (all?) that is in this photograph belongs to her.
I stopped on the return leg to take a photograph looking across to West Maui, the Pacific Ocean and the island of Lana’i.
Reupholstering a couch today. Learning as I go. Patience is one of those lessons!
Going in…looking to retrieve some images off of my step-daughter’s old computer. 🫣
Current mood, after a day with a lot of driving.
Out for a walk.
