Via: Flickr Title: Aloha maui By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 4 Mar ’06, 7.44pm PST View from our hotel room at the Maui Prince, where we spent the last two days of our vacation. Interesting property. It’s currently enmeshed in some kind of ownership brou-ha-ha between heirs of the Seibu family, and the Seibu corporation. It was designed to cater to Japanese visitors to Hawaii, but the clientele is now pretty much like that of any large beach/golf resort on Maui. The grounds were pretty, the beach is nice, and we ran short of time and didn’t have a chance to…
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Via: Flickr Title: Molokini By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 3 Mar ’06, 7.05pm PST Took an early morning snorkel trip out here with Pacific Whale Foundation – not a bad day out, except it was a little “blowy” for me. Howeverr, I saw an eel, while David did not.
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We’ve returned from our short but action-packed weekend in Utah; David’s parents were also there as a surprise for my mom and in fact are still there. They’ll return tomorrow, full of tales of excitement and thrills. Sunday, for example, the 4 of us went up to my cousin’s cabin in Lamb’s Canyon just to look around, then a few miles “around the corner” to Park City for lunch and window-shopping. On a whim, we all rode the “Town Chair” ski lift up the mountain, took pictures, wandered around in a featureless and stony wasteland devoid of shopping opportunities, and…
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I’ve added a new photo gallery, Olympiad. It covers the part of our big late May trip from when we left Seattle on the ferry, so we could have lunch in Winslow with my friend Christine before driving up and around the corner to Port Angeles. It’s also got some of the first full day we drove around the edges of Olympic National Park, and some coastal stuff. There are a lot more photos to add in the next albums, which will cover a day trip to Victoria, some hiking near Hurricane Ridge, and a bit of the Hoh Rain…
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Not Again Originally uploaded by StickerEsq. Two weeks to the day and now there are more reports of explosions in London. My resentiments exactly.
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CNN.com – London Tube stations evacuated – Jul 21, 2005 Ivan McCracken told Sky News: “I was in a middle carriage and the train was not far short of Warren Street station when suddenly the door between my carriage and the next one burst open and dozens of people started rushing through. Some were falling, there was mass panic. “It was difficult to get the story from any of them what had happened but when I got to ground level there was an Italian young man comforting an Italian girl who told me he had seen what had happened. “He…
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Before Originally uploaded by GinnyRED57. Taken from a similar POV as Against Racism Against Poverty Against War
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A vigil will be held in Trafalgar Square (that’s in London, y’all) tonight at 6pm GST, which I think works out to be about 10 or 11am my time (argh, it’s not Eastern Standard Confusing Time here, but it’s something like that). I’ll be there in spirit, and I expect there will be webcams running feeds at various news sites. Oops, gotta go to work. I’ll check in later with more information and maybe some pictures of Trafalgar to aid in visualizing a world without terrorism. Oh, to be in London in August: We Are Not Afraid – Tube Challenge…
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London Pride Originally uploaded by GinnyRED57. Last night I enjoyed a tasty glass of Fuller’s London Pride, as planned, and then photographed it and uploaded it to Flickr. Then this morning I was listening to a radio essay by Scott Simon on NPR called “The Resilience of London — and Londoners.” It was one of Simon’s best ever, right up there with his dispatches from Sarajevo. The piece ended with an old song by Noel Coward called “London Pride.” It was scratchy sounding and creaky in the joints, but it had something to say about the strength Londoners found to…
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And St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington is treating 10 people, two of which are in a critical condition. Three of St Mary’s patients have been transferred to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital’s specialist burns unit, bringing the number there to four. A spokeswoman for Chelsea and Westminster said they were being assessed by a team of plastic surgeons. That’s a little disturbing. Paddington was “our” station and St Mary’s was just up the street from the Indian restaurant (Indus Delta) where we had our first dinner in London… when we felt we’d been welcomed by the city, and were totally ready…