Category Archives: Photos

Paris can be beautiful in the spring, but on this trip in the spring of 2005, this was the only day we actually saw blue sky.  Most of our other photos had gray-blah backgrounds. Of course, if you’re a Midnight … Continue reading →

I wanted to post a photo I took in Switzerland of edelweiss, but it was just a bit out of focus.  So I’m christening this “Maui edelweiss,” since I don’t recall its true genus and species.

Well, not really fireworks — just kinda sorta looks like it.  I wish I knew the name of this blossoming beauty, but alas, I’ve slept since then.  This is my second offering of Maui flower photos from our 2006 trip … Continue reading →

As long as we’re exploring Maui, we should examine the flora.  This flower certainly does look like crab claws, doesn’t it?  And thus the name.  My understanding is that most of the flowers that are today found in Hawaii were … Continue reading →

Hula show at Old Lahaina Luau on Maui, September, 2006 Millions of people are killed and maimed every day by falling coconuts.  I think.  Or was it millions of people eat coconuts every day — I can’t remember.  Maybe it … Continue reading →

These birds seem to have found a good way to stay cool.  I, too, would like to be wading in the surf at Marco Island, Florida, where I took this photo, back in October of 2007. I liked this photo so … Continue reading →

It’s really hot out today, so I’m sharing a cool fall scene I snapped in Hafer Park, Edmond, Oklahoma, in the fall of 2005.  Don’t you just wish the Time Pullers could translocate you there?

One last entry in this sequence of sea animals: A reptile this time.  We found this green sea turtle on one of the beaches on the north side of Oahu, Hawaii. These things are HUGE. The “turtle guards” were close behind, ready … Continue reading →

California Sea Lions at La Jolla I seem to have a sea-mammal theme going here, don’t I?  I took this photo of California Sea Lions having a stand off at the “Children’s Pool” in La Jolla, a coastal suburb of … Continue reading →

Gray Whale, Monterey Bay, California Or, rather, a tail of a whale.  I snapped this from a whale watch vessel in February, 2008, off Monterey California.  I had only a light jacket and no gloves, and the boat heaved on … Continue reading →