Gumbo's Pic of the Day, May 31, 2015: After the Guard has changed...
When AA Milne wrote They're changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace; Christopher Robin went down with Alice. Alice is marrying one of the Guard: "A soldier's life...
When AA Milne wrote They're changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace; Christopher Robin went down with Alice. Alice is marrying one of the Guard: "A soldier's life...
On long walks, day after day along a river, it’s impossible not to notice the boats, many of them progressing not much faster than I. I love to watch them but prefer to walk myself, imagining my legs itching to get moving after...
Here is a quirky piece of sculpture that you don't see every day! The pieces are three Ichthyosaurs fashioned from decommissioned naval torpedoes and celebrate the history of Weymouth in Dorset, England, created by local sculptor Andrew Kirkby, ....
Logan Pass (elevation 6,646 ft (2,026 m)) is located along the Continental Divide in Glacier National Park, in the U.S. state of Montana. It is the highest point on the Going-to-the-Sun Road . The Logan Pass...
Grapevine, Texas, is just north of the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and a world away from what you would imagine a community this close to a major metropolitan area would be like. What you’ll find is Main Street lined...
These photos were taken on a chilly evening at a no name lake on the outskirts of the little Alberta town of Brooks. We came across these Canada geese and their babies. The mother goose shielding her young against the cold was...
Last week while we were preparing the flower pots on the deck after the usual cold winter, we noticed there was a bird’s nest built in one of them. We decided to leave it to see what it would bring and this weekend we noticed a mother...
A bird’s view of the 4.000 temples of Bagan, from a Hot Air Balloon, left us thunderstruck! Yes, seeing Bagan from that perspective was definitely an experience of a lifetime!
My trip by train from Nanning, China to Hanoi, Vietnam transpired years after my first plan to travel between the 2 countries was thwarted by a landslide that covered the tracks between Kunming, in Yunnan Province, and Hanoi.
As early as 1669 Sir John Clayton was granted a patent to erect a lighthouse on Portland Bill, Dorset, England to warn seafarers of the perilous currents that converge around 'the Bill', but his scheme fell through and it was not until early in the...
The Summer Palace was the Emperor's retreat fo
While I was in Banff I visited the Banff Springs Hotel. Just a short walk from the hotel is The Bow River and the Bow River Falls. The Bow River begins in the Rocky Mountains and winds through the Alberta foothills to...
One of the most memorable trips in my journeys was to Egypt, and the overnight train from Cairo to Aswan was an adventure in itself. Our "first class" compartment was reasonably comfortable, but the trains are a bit dated and could use...
Singapore is famously known for being a concrete jungle full of high rise buildings and futuristic looking skyscrapers but apart from the manicured parks and botanical gardens, there are many other green spaces not frequented by many visitors.
No one really knows where it started, but it's spread all over the world in the past few years—"Love Locks" snapped onto railings, especially on bridges. Some hate them and feel they disfigure spaces with other purposes (in Basel, we...