Kevin's Watch

Rainbow!

Just about the first thing I saw in Hawaii was a rainbow over Honolulu. I suspected the Chamber of Commerce of paying off the local gods....

You can pay off the Gods or you can just apply the 'Rainbow Filter' in iphoto as I did.

Kidding of course. Rainbows are easy ways to bring out the kid wonder in us aren't they. I like them lots too.

On a side note, yesterday was Saturday and when I went wandering up in the hills/through the National Park to see this rainbow, I didn't meet a single soul in two hours. The pub I stopped at on the way was packed and the shopping centre carparks were full, but a free natural wonderland was empty. Not complaining, but it does strike me as weird that people prefer the noise and fluro lights of the mall to the wind in the gumtrees and rainbows in the sky! Guess I'm just lucky enough to have been brought up with a love of the outdoors. Cheers Ma and Pa.

I don't come here too often. Only when I post, really. Great pics all over the place, though! And hilarious about the squirrels!


OK, Christy and I went to Sam's Point yesterday. It's a nice place in NY. It costs to park there, so we've never been before. We just go to a place extremely close to it that's free, called Cragsmoor. So here's a view from the top:



Until the '60s, there was a big huckleberry industry up here, because there's TONS of bushes:



Also all these dwarf pines, which are apparently a result of the fires they used to set to make the berries grow better:



Then we found the path to Verkeerderkill Falls:



After 1.7 miles of this crap (How do I format an mp4):
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we got to the falls. Which are very low, because it's an insanely dry year here. I don't think Christy would be able to stand where she is if it was a regular year:

Christy: What are you doing?
Fist and Faith: Just filming the terrain we're walking on. So people know how I died you know.

Well derr, yeah if you're too busy with the camera to watch where you're going!

Just filming the terrain we're walking on.... just filming the edge of the path I've arrived at... just filming the cliff I'm walking over... just filming the Arrrgghh-air I'm falling through.

Smart-assery aside, lovely pics Fist. When I looked at the first one I thought it was a synchronstically similar shot to a couple of mine, but then came the berries and I knew I wasn't in Kansas anymore.

I was thinking the walk would kill me. We hadn't been there before, so we didn't know there was a falls to walk to, and certainly not what the trail to it was like. So we hadn't brought any water. In her desire to get back to find a drink, she set a fast pace for our return. Which is the video. The whole 1.7 miles was just like in the video.

Arizona

Grand Canyon


more Grand Canyon


Upper Antelope Canyon. This was a really amazing place. The walls are carved into stunning patterns by the water.


the entrance to Antelope slot canyon





Lake Powell. The canyon lake is beautiful and strange. It is so incongruent to find all this water in the middle of the desert. We took a pontoon and went through these tiny crevasses.

Gosh, how beautiful. Awe inspiring. Thanks for posting Lorin.

Oh man, I've got to go to Antelope Canyon one of these days...

aliantha wrote:Oh man, I've got to go to Antelope Canyon one of these days...

My thought exactly.
Those photos are stunning.

The Wild Turkeys of Cape Cod.

All fear them.

Mmm boy! Thanksgiving's come early!

Driving into Pipestem State Park in southern West Virginia at dusk, a wild turkey ran right across the road in front of us. Scared the dickens out of my friend, who was driving.

You can't swing a dead cat around here without hitting a wild turkey.

Monument Valley






Mystery Valley

An Anasazi prayer site, 2000 years old. They disappeared, therefore the name Mystery Valley

An Anasazi home in the cliffs

Pictograms in the walls

Welllll...the Anasazi didn't disappear. They're the ancestors of the Hopi. But still -- cool pictures! I love the last Monument Valley pic, with the distant mesas framed between the two closer ones.

I said that wrong. They disappeared from the valley. The historians are not sure if it was lack of water or war.

Frost roaming the Faroes.

Sheep.



Sheep.



Sheep where I didn't expect them.



Sheep where I didn't want them.



Don't get me wrong, it was all worth walking for hours in flying sleet and getting wet for landscapes like this. There's probably a white sheep somewhere I haven't spotted yet, though.

Very nice. Though I'm still looking for the sheep in the last one.

Wonderful pictures Frosty. Wouldn't like to live in the house in the last one!

Old Piano



New Piano



Three pedals!!

Funnily enough Iolanthe that's exactly where I would like to live