The “Pyle”
A sculpture made from children’s bikes on the corner of Burnside and 13th Avenue in Portland, Oregon.
travel
…What can be more romantic than being in LOVE in New York…literally…?!!
Travel theme: Silver
…Three shots, one unique building, one camera…
…The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, designed by Frank Gehry…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Window
… early evening reflection of the bell tower of the Chiesa del Torreone in Cortona with Lake Trasimeno seen shimmering in the distance; a magical moment…
Travel theme: Possibility
…The possibility that your luggage doesn’t appear through that carousel door is always a time of high anxiety. But there it is, in all its reassuring blueness. At that moment the possibility of Machu Picchu became an eagerly awaited reality…
Ailsa’s weekly travel themes
Weekly Photo Challenge: Layers or Birth of a Painting
…Every painting tells a story and no more so than in the layers that lie beneath the finished work. My painting entitled Cypress Alleyway was inspired by a visit to Castello di Reschio in Umbria and a photograph I took of that glorious Italian landscape…
…Back home in my studio a canvas was stretched and gessoed, a charcoal sketch developed, loose thin layers of acrylic paint applied until, finally…
…I could feel the warmth of that Umbrian sun and I knew that I had arrived…
Daily Prompt: Come Fly with Me
“Share a story about the furthest you’ve ever traveled from home.”
…A few years ago we travelled to Port Douglas in northern Queensland, Australia. One morning we rose early to walk along the famous Four Mile Beach to see the sunrise. It was a beautiful morning as we walked south along the beach for about an hour. Not a person in sight; just us and the rising sun. Where was everyone on such a perfect day?
It was on our return that we saw the sign.
The reason for our solitude was explained, and we were alive, happily, to tell the tale!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Horizon 2
…with a few more days of the Horizon challenge to go, and having enjoyed so many of your wonderful photos, a second posting seems to be in order. Here are a few more dramatic images from travels near and far, beginning with one of the Twelve Apostles seen from a beach just below Victoria’s Great Ocean Road in South Eastern Australia, one of the great drives of the world…
…and what horizon could be more iconic than one from my old home town showing The Houses of Parliament, The Thames, Westminster Bridge and the London Eye; pure magic…
…or a hill of stately cypresses leading up to an Umbrian villa outlined against a glorious Italian sky. I think we should open the Prosecco don’t you…
…or since we are now in Burgundy, and the harvest is over, perhaps we should be drinking a cool glass of Crémant de Bourgogne; mmmm delicious…
…one final stop before home to look in awe at Sedona’s majestic Cathedral Rock…
…and so, home again to Vancouver’s English Bay with a sky that seems to have followed us all the way from The Great Ocean Road. I hope you have enjoyed these few global horizons, and I shall now continue to enjoy following yours. Now where did I put that bottle of Crémant?…
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