well, I sit here in Ballard WA waiting for our table of four at the great restaurant Oaxaca. If you are living in Seattle this might mean something. If not, I’m sorry. The point is, this is my first post to my own blog from my iphone. No monitor. No keyboard. No ethernet cord. [...]
Our last stop was Munich Germany. Here are a few pictures from our few days there as well as some images we took at the Deutsch Museum.
A lunar eclipse occurs whenever the Moon passes through some portion of the Earth’s shadow. This can occur only when the Moon is full, and when the Sun, Earth and Moon are aligned exactly, or very closely so.
According to NASA, the event begins 54 minutes past midnight PDT (3:54 a.m. EDT) on August 28 and [...]
I am working with some photos I’ve taken to see if I can achieve a distressed painting effect. Here are the first few..
I’ll be dumping the rest in the Paintings folder here.
Science and religion never have mixed well. In the case of global warming, the late Jerry Falwell and Ann Coulter would have you believe that global warming is a political distraction being cultivated by tree huggers. I suppose there is little point in trying to explain that ice does melt when warmed. From [...]
I took this picture of the forthcoming BMW M5 Touring while traveling in Germany. This is an incredible car that the USA is not likely to get in the short term. But, if you want both space and performance this surely must be one incredible compromise. This finest 5-Series Touring will be the [...]
Enjoy these pictures from the Vatican and the ancient ruins of Rome! Needless to say, the historical ruins that can still be seen are hard to comprehend. There isn’t another place quite like this. My only recommendation for tourists traveling in Italy during the summer months? Carry a lot of change [...]
So Tricia and I have just finished about a week in Hvar off the coast of Croatia. I must admit that this has been on of the most surprising travel experiences of my life. Croatia (and Hvar in particular) is going through a huge surge of popularity as a top flight summer destination and [...]
As part of our August 2007 trip to certain locations in Europe, Tricia and I stopped in the ancient walled city of Dubrovnik in Croatia. Dubrovnik is a historic city on the Adriatic Sea coast in the extreme south of Croatia, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one [...]