Feather-shaped cloud
(The Dalles, OR, USA; May Day 2008)
Man feeding pidgeons
(Ensenada, Baja California Norte, Mexico; January 24, 2009)
Hot soup for breakfast (Santa Lucia, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands;
April 21, 2006)
Breakfast in the grass (near Lísek, Czech Republic; May 3, 2006)
Duck couple
(Braunschweig, northern Germany; May 14, 2006)
The world-famous
pioneer
sailor Tomasz Lewandowski shortly after his thirteen-month solo voyage,
the
sixth solo circumnavigation of the planet against the wind in history and the first by a
Pole (open sea off Bahia de Todos Santos, Baja California Norte,
Mexico;
October
19, 2008)
All empires tumble
and nothing lasts forever: a proud flashback reminiscent
of the long-gone days (between the world wars) when Czechoslovak
Republic was not only among the wealthiest countries per capita in the
world
but especially one of half a dozen technologically most advanced ones,
particularly in automotive and aircraft industries. (The Commies then
chased many of the best brains out and as a result, e.g., about 10 per
cent of engineers collaborating on the construction of the first US
space shuttle were Czech, not unlike the ex-German engineers who pretty
much created the US space program in the first place.) The sexy and superb 1963-9 Aero L-29
Delfín was designed and configured as a trainer plane for the
Soviet Block, but some countries, especially Third World ones would
mount machine guns on this beautiful two-seat jet and deploy it in
combat even decades after the assembly line in Vodochody had been
dismantled. Sadly, the factory itself fell into US hands shortly
after 2000. (Tillamook Air Museum, Tillamook, OR, USA; August 9,
2008)
Ain't she sweet! Smiling faintly after a triple Scotch and weary
in his heart,
Phil Marlowe might come stumbling back to his bus any minute now:
Chrysler Plymouth -- year to be ferreted out later. (In front of
the
excellent Senor
Salud restaurant [vegetarian, no steak for Phil here], Ensenada, Baja
California Norte, Mexico; February 13, 2009)
Ensenada morning (yet another view from the fifth floor or Hotel Corral
y Marina, Ensenada, Baja California Norte, Mexico; February 18, 2009)
Karla Aguilar, a great pro photographer of portraits, landscape, and
pretty
much anything both visible and invisible; a sister of synchronicity
(Baja California Norte, Mexico;
February 18, 2009)
Periodically, I look up and learn and then promptly forget the names of
this amazing plant, which
is more common than grass in many coast regions of -- as far as I've
been -- North and Central America (Oregon to Baja California) and
southern Europe (Portugal to Croatia). (A Rotary Club bird
sanctuary
Estero de Punta Banda near Ensenada, Baja California Norte; morning,
November 29, 2008)
My morning view from bed -- the ocean different every day, every moment
(Blue Tile House, Marazul, Baja California Norte; 722AM, December 13,
2008)
One of the access lanes to the meadow where I often live
(Few hundred meters north of Lísek; 511PM, November 8, 2009)
Sky above the Meadow (Lísek; 607PM,
November 8, 2009)
Girl walking (Bahnhof Strasse and Asylstrasse, Vohenstrauss,
Bavaria; 1146AM, November 12, 2009)
Sun coloring the leaves (Bahnhof Strasse and
Asylstrasse, Vohenstrauss, Bavaria; 1146AM, November 12, 2009)
Winter cereals,
recently planted, not quite dormant yet, begin to peek out and grow on
a field with the hill Drahoušek (Darling) in the backdrop (Looking south, about a
kilometer north of Lísek; 344PM,
November 1, 2009)
