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Images of Egypt

Okay these weren’t taken today, but J-E and I were there just a couple of years ago, so here’s joining the celebration…

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Somewhere on the Silk Road…

This picture was taken at about the half-way point on a train trip from Singapore to Norway, at a place called Jiayuguan  (嘉峪关) in western China…

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Signs

I love this sign. Found it in the middle of the Wadi Rum desert in southern Jordan near the border with Saudi Arabia. Originally the train line was built to carry pilgrims to Jeddah, but it has long been abandoned.

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Sunday Morning

We don’t have a lot of sun up here in the Pacific Northwest, but we do have some interesting combinations of weather and scenery. While the rest of the country is frozen or under snow, up here everything is verdant, lush, moist, spongy, misty – even sometimes mystical. And it somehow makes the morning coffee taste that much better. Outside, the only sounds are the occasional fog horn, an egret, or perhaps a sea lion.  Or the low rumble of the Bremerton ferry…

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The Lightning Bolt

Sometimes it just strikes you.

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Just one more step…

This is the feeling you get when you stick one foot out over Coonskin, which drops away to the town of Telluride 1,800 feet below.  Kinda feels like the Grinch looking down at Whoville…

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Telluride

I never get tired of this view…

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Hazel in China

Those sunglasses are large enough that I can see myself in the reflection. And why did she pose for me, anyhow?

At the Forbidden City, Beijing

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Chinese grafitti

If you think English grafitti is difficult, try doing it in Chinese characters, in cursive!  Now that takes some skill…

Actually I’m pretty sure this fellow was actually spraying white paint to remove the graffiti. Still…

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Truth in Advertising

Hong Kong taxi. I think the expression on the driver’s face underscores the meaning of the message on the side of his car.