I think swans are elegant, graceful creatures but before this year I’d only rarely seen them in the wild. During a recent trip to Vancouver Island, I visited this bird sanctuary on the Island’s east coast and there were hundreds and hundreds of swans dropping by to rest and enjoy the fresh water during their migration.
This photo was taken just at the crack of dawn in Serengeti National Park. We were already on safari, looking for wildlife, when we came upon this soda (alkaline) lake. A group of flamingos was slowing wading through the water looking for…
Barcelona’s La Bouqueria Market is one of Europe’s oldest and largest covered markets, with an area larger than a football field covered with stands selling fresh fruit, vegetables, meat and especially seafood in incredible variety.
The oldest known organisms that still live on the planet are stromatolites, rock-like structures built by an algae known as cyanobacteria.
Palouse Falls is a beautiful 200″ (60m) waterfall in southeastern Washington state, situated in the rolling grasslands, wheat fields and eroded lava formations of the Palouse.
A recreation from Walt Disney’s classic film, ‘Fantasia”.
The first major battle of the American Civil War occurred on July 21, 1861 about 30 miles east of Washington D.C, in a place called Manassas
Cape Point is a peninsula extending south of Cape Town, ending in the Cape of Good Hope (where old mariners from Europe used to take a sharp left as they headed to the Far East). On the shores of this peninsula is a small town where you have the chance to see a large breeding colony of jackass (African) penguins.
Thingvellir National Park is of great historic and geologic importance in Iceland. This was the site of Iceland’s first parliament more than 1,000 years ago.
Portugal’s answer to Bavaria’s fairy-tale castles (and to Disney!), the Pena Palace sits high on a mountaintop above the town of Sintra.
I think swans are elegant, graceful creatures but before this year I’d only rarely seen them in the wild. During a recent trip to Vancouver Island, I visited this bird sanctuary on the Island’s east coast and there were hundreds and hundreds of swans dropping by to rest and enjoy the fresh water during their migration.
This photo was taken just at the crack of dawn in Serengeti National Park. We were already on safari, looking for wildlife, when we came upon this soda (alkaline) lake. A group of flamingos was slowing wading through the water looking for…
Barcelona’s La Bouqueria Market is one of Europe’s oldest and largest covered markets, with an area larger than a football field covered with stands selling fresh fruit, vegetables, meat and especially seafood in incredible variety.
The oldest known organisms that still live on the planet are stromatolites, rock-like structures built by an algae known as cyanobacteria.
Palouse Falls is a beautiful 200″ (60m) waterfall in southeastern Washington state, situated in the rolling grasslands, wheat fields and eroded lava formations of the Palouse.
A recreation from Walt Disney’s classic film, ‘Fantasia”.
The first major battle of the American Civil War occurred on July 21, 1861 about 30 miles east of Washington D.C, in a place called Manassas
Cape Point is a peninsula extending south of Cape Town, ending in the Cape of Good Hope (where old mariners from Europe used to take a sharp left as they headed to the Far East). On the shores of this peninsula is a small town where you have the chance to see a large breeding colony of jackass (African) penguins.
Thingvellir National Park is of great historic and geologic importance in Iceland. This was the site of Iceland’s first parliament more than 1,000 years ago.
Portugal’s answer to Bavaria’s fairy-tale castles (and to Disney!), the Pena Palace sits high on a mountaintop above the town of Sintra.
