Scenes on Sunday ~ Nevada
Nevada, famous for Vegas, Area 51 ~ and a lot of desert.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
after all, Absinthe is a potent female aphrodisiac
They Cut Down All The Trees
Life without trees is life without Love.
The street where I live is under serious redevelopment, which involves making a tremendous amount of mess. It also means that the contractors have cut down all the mature trees which used to line both sides of the street, and surround the old church, (which is now actually an art gallery).
Perhaps the redevelopment is a good idea, and the place will look much better when it’s all finished, but cutting down all the trees is just urban vandalism.
Where I live now looks as though urban riots / a small war has just been through there.
And, the old church / art gallery now looks utterly bereft. All such a shame.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
As you can tell,
it’s still raining cats and dogs here.
Scenes on Sunday ~ Orange County
When you are tired of California you are tired of Life.
Orange County in Southern California is one of my favourite places in the world ~ say right up there alongside Tuscany in Northern Italy. I’m visiting SoCal next week, but here are some pictures from my last trip there.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Vacation Time
It’s very nice to be able to afford to go travelling.
I’m just about ready and prepared for my next long vacation, which starts on this coming Thursday.
Today I booked a car to collect me at the garret, for 06:00 on Thursday March 15th, as my flight leaves from Newcastle upon Tyne airport at 09:30. I then have layovers in London Heathrow, and San Jose International in Santa Clara County, before I eventually arrive at John Wayne airport in Orange County California at 20.32.
I’m renting a Toyota Rav4 at John Wayne, and then I have a shortish drive, so I expect to get to get to my accommodation sometime around 22:00.
If you add in the 8 hour time difference between England and California, that makes the journey exactly 24 hours. Why does air travel always take so long? Even if everything goes to plan?
Poor Marmaduke isn’t coming along on this trip ~ because when I looked at the layovers I decided I’d just take one carry-on bag.
Poor Marmaduke has been in tears since he found out.
I expect to be back in the garret on Wednesday April 18th ~ after another 24 hours of travelling.
I will be in touch while I’m away.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Road Trip
Some places can’t be discovered without getting lost.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Cold and snow
When two English people meet their first topic of conversation is going to be the weather; ‘It’s nice out isn’t it?’ or ‘brass monkeys here today.’
Well it’s certainly brass monkeys here in England. It’s snowing and it freezing cold, (for England), just on freezing point actually. Some places, Alaska for example, would think that 32 degrees F is balm and nothing to get exited about. Not here.
The news headlines this morning;
Emma batters Britain: Families are ordered to EVACUATE as snow gives way to lethal black ice turning UK roads into ‘death traps’ while 50mph storms continue to rage across the country.
I think whoever wrote that headline wasn’t born when England had some really bad winters.
Still, this one is bad enough. I’ve been trapped in the garret for 3 days, and my phone lines have been down until a few hours ago. Of course that could be due to the guys digging up the street outside the garret.
What it looks like across much of England.
jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Scenes on Sunday ~ Wyoming Wilderness
The clearest way into your mind is through a wilderness.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
all these pictures were taken with a compact Lumix by the girl riding shotgun.
Scenes on Sunday ~ Burning Skies
Sky above me, the earth at my feet, the fire inside.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
all pictures taken by
the girl riding shotgun
using a Panasonic Lumix
Scenes on Sunday ~ Monochrome Utah Skies
The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
pictures all taken by
the girl riding shotgun
using a Panasonic Lumix
Californian Palm Trees
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ~ Willa Cather
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
