Microblog

Hiked to end of the isolated Sheep’s Head Peninsula, while 1,000’s of people flew silently to N. America (contrails).

Sheep’s Head Peninsula: walked on a ridge trail on peat, rock, and heather, with the Atlantic on each side.

Today, we start walking The Sheep’s Head Way.

Cork, Ireland, end of noisy pub meal, the server said “turkey sex farty.” Fighting the fog of jet lag, I paid €36.40

Living the jet-set highlife, at Chicago’s O’Hare waiting for a flight to Shannon. Maybe if I took off my shoes…

Rock art, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia’s Red Centre. Kodachrome, 1992.

4-day tramp, Kepler Track, South Island, New Zealand, 2006. The mist did a dance, revealing glimpses of steep valleys

Marine smoke grenade, backyard family gathering, near New Orleans, Louisiana, 2003.

The sun suddenly punched through dawn, in the Andes, near Puerto Blest, Rio Negro, Argentina in 2008.

Clouds imitating planes at Kona International, Hawaii Big Island, while waiting for an interisland flight in 2005.

Kyoto, 2005. I’ve posted about temple plumbing here and here.

Google has taken a liking to this picture. I explain it here. I took the Kodachrome in 1970.

Posted about rain jackets.

Cycled to St. Paul’s Union Depot. This winter I’ll take Amtrak to Miami, stopping in several cities including NYC.

Found a ‘flu shot in aisle 8 of my local Walgreen’s.

Dust everywhere: wore out a grinding wheel slightly enlarging the hole through the counter for a replacement faucet.