The remnants of a World War II look out bunker that was once perched up on the cliff. Over the years erosion undermined it and it slowy slid down to the beach where it sits today, covered and uncovered by the shifting sand and tides, washed over by countless waves.
Golden sea oats, beautiful sand and sea on a warm sunny day on the Hatteras National Seashore along the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Sun reflecting off cruise ship coming into port on a sunny Aruban day.
Spent a week on Grand Cayman, where the waters have that spectacular Caribbean blue. This shot is of the waters near Rum Point, where I did the touristy thing and petted tame sting rays at Stingray City. The snorkling and windsurfing were awesome all week. We stayed on the east end at Morritt's, and it was ideal for diving and windsurfing adventures.
A little color on a gray, rainy day (
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The first (and I do mean first) Blennosperma of the season peeked its head out as if to see if the coast was clear before letting all the other flowers know it was OK to come out ;) (It's the earliest I've ever seen this species show up!)
.....sometimes when I hike this area, I am reminded of God's love for us in giving us this amazingly beautiful planet..... and am thankful and pleased to share views from my part of it, with all my WU friends :)
... with cormorants flying in for the night..
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I don't know if it is still there or not. I doubt it but if it is, they must have those thingies (I can't be bothered to remember what they're called) that capture the emissions... Emission control devices?....
Whatever, there's no odor up that way these days.
Yep, that's me.... practicing for the days when I become a bag lady, grubbing in the trash.
Most of the horrified looks are because I'm putting my hands in there. My retort: That's what soap and water are for!
They won't pick up anything that bounces off the trash can and hits the floor, either. They might pick up a germ. Heaven forbid! I have the same retort for that: Soap and water!
The one I usually keep to myself is, "You don't get to be our age without having put your hands in, and on, some pretty nasty things and you're still alive, aren't you?"
Then, there's the other cop out, as to why they don't pick things up off the floor: It's not my job.
We are setting up the "camps" in NorCal, lol...
On a serious note now, just in...an 8.0 earthquake in the Santa Cruz Islands in the South Pacific. Looking into now to see if there are tsunami warnings. There have been lots of earthquakes in that region for days now...
No four words annoy me more than these four!!!
We seem to be much further down the road to recycling in the UK than you are in the States. It could be that we are a small island and we are running out of areas to dig land-fill sites. I suppose that will never be an issue in such a large country as the USA.
The MK shopping centre were the first to introduce recycling rubbish bins, with slots for plastic, paper and other (which is then sorted at the recycling centre!)
As to your report on the earthquake.. according to the BBC this morning there was a three foot tsunami.
I have cleared all cookies and other junk and my blog is working today.
I wonder, with the names you say you have problems with, whether FB has anything to do with it. Bug and I don't have a FB account, and when you sign in to WU it asks if you want to sign in via FB!!
NO, I DON'T!! lol
San Francisco is almost an island at the end of a peninsula surrounded on three sides by the Pacific Ocean and the SF Bay. You see similar recycle/rubbish cans on the streets there as well. The less affluent communities in the US are getting tired of all this garbage being dumped into landfills near their backyards and are starting to complain about it. It is getting costly to just dump it all.
The latest report I see from the AP in Sydney is that the tsunami reached up to 1.5 metres there in the Solomon Islands.
No, I don't sign in with FB either. Maybe the ads that are popping up associated with your blog (all those enticing London and British Isle travel ads, lol) are slowing it down. I have been a member here long enough to still have a free account with advertising. My security software might be getting hung up as well. Or the M17 (the "extraterrestial unit" is protecting you from me, :-))
I am free woman again! lol
Are you telling me you are not a fully paid up member! No wonder your blog slows down!
I suppose I am just one of those folk who hate adverts with avengence! I even won't watch the advertising channels on TV....only ever watch the four BBC channels that are advert free or record the programme I want to see on the Independant channels and then fast forward through the adverts when I play it back!! ! I am a paid up member of every Internet group I belong to... So limited myself to just Yahoo, WU, Flickr and PicMonkey. The other site I belong to is subscription, Ancestry.co.uk, which I need to pay up front for a year or I can't access their information.
Have a good weekend...hope you can get out and enjoy some Free Fresh Air! :-)
Congratulations!! Did the Judge and Jury decide on your innocence and set you free? lol Sounded like you were the prisoner. What a dreadful experience.
I don't particularly enjoy the adverts but then again I am cheap when the opportunity presents itself :-) I don't mind the ads here but like you on the commercial tv programs I record them and fast forward through all the ads. Have you found Ancestry.com useful? I have thought about joining it as I might find something about my mysterious Welsh relatives that side of the family was so silent about. Maybe they were coal miners and there wasn't mush to talk about. I know all about the Irish side. My maternal grandmother was French/German ancestry and she traced her lineage back to late 16th century Maryland. She belonged to the Daughters of the American Revolution and had to do extensive research to join.
Oh yes, I plan to get out and enjoy some Fresh Free Air, lol. The air below us looks very voggy but we seem to sit in the upper layers of it and can see clear blue sky above us.
Have a good weekend too and enjoy your new found freedom :-)
We, as in London and Leeds cleaned up our act, but other major cities around the world still are suffering from smog...most notably Hong Kong and Tokyo.
I had a friend who visited Tokyo just a couple of years ago and said from his fifteenth floor hotel room he couldn't see the street some mornings! He came home with the most awful bout of bronchitis, caused, according to the doctor, by the polluted atmosphere.
Thanks for your kind words on my squirrel photo...please don't cry! :-). Actually, I glanced out of the back door and saw this shape in the feeder and cried, argh! Rat!
For one split second I thought it was a huge rat.... But then realised it was a squirrel. I now see why some folk call squirrels 'rats with bushy tails' !
He was wet and hungry - he actually didn't move until I opened the back door once I had taken the photos through the glass.
Yes, the vog is like smog. Volcanic smog. And it is natural and no trying to control it like CO2 pollution. The volcano is churning out SO2 by the tonnes 24/7. When I got home last night I could barely talk with a case of near laryngitis.
Yes, the fast growing Asian cities have a terrible smog problem. California, despite all its efforts, still does too, especially Los Angeles.
PS - are you going for the longest blog award? My scroll finger is beginning to revolt! lol
But it is not so much the scroll wheel as the page scroll, when I use the IPad... I get finger burn!! lol
Only teasing you, you know!
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