Please click on any image for a better view. Boating on the Beagle Channel, South America Walking in Wales, Black Mountains Playing with Penguins, Punta Arenas, Chile Gazing at Glaciers, Switzerland Dining on the Danube, Budapest Ailsa’s travel theme: Adventure Continue reading Adventure
Ailsa’s travel theme is Names of iconic places – please click on any image for a better view. The New York Salon on Erzsébet Street in Budapest The Moulin Rouge on the Boulevard de Clichy in Paris Guess where in the Czech Republic In London The Nobel Museum in Stortorget, Stockholm The end of Route 3 on Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. The Pan-American highway runs … Continue reading Travel Theme: Names
Please click on any image for a better view. Charlie the labradoodle, from Thunder Bay, Ontario Sleeping dogs lie in the Andes, Hotel Portillo, Chile This fellow wanted to play ball in Berchtesgaden, Germany Out to pasture, Thornhill, Scotland Alpaca, Glengarry County, Ontario Walking the dog in Lockerbie, Scotland Sleeping dogs also lie in Punta Arenas, Chile … and a pee break at Dunnet Head, … Continue reading Animal Crackers
Click on any image for a better view. Ailsa’s travel theme is Words Long words … Nuremburg Short words … South Glengarry, Ontario Exciting words … Words of reflection … Bavaria Words of love … Proud words … Ottawa Moving words … Ottawa Funny words … at least to me … Salzburg Incomprehensible words … at least to me … St. Petersburg, Russia and words of … Continue reading Words
Ailsa’s travel theme: Near Please click on any image for a better view. A silk floss tree (I think) – Buenos Aires Tiled floor in the Vatican Museums Flora, Otway Sound, Chile Close up of I’m-not-sure-what in an archway in Munich Highland cattle in the Scottish Highlands Continue reading Near and Far
Ailsa’s travel theme: rain. Please click on any image for a better view. On Ponte Vecchio in Florence St. Petersburg, Russia Chile And, lastly, in my own back yard. Continue reading Rain, Rain, more Rain
When I travel I like to get my feet on the ground and walk. I pick up so much more walking than driving – to go with the sights come the sounds and the smells and the hum of the atmosphere. Taking local transport is also a favourite, but Ailsa’s travel theme is Walking so I’ll go with that. Please click on any image for a better … Continue reading Walking the Walk
Please click on any image for a better view. Montmartre at dusk The blue hour settling on the Ballyhoura Mountains in Ireland As the sun goes down in Thornhill, Scotland The lights come on in St. David’s, Wales Shop window in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario Railway crossing on a rainy night in Lancaster, Ontario St. Isaac’s Cathedral lights up in St. Petersburg, Russia Ailsa’s travel theme: Dark Continue reading In the Dark
Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Transport. Please click on any image for a better view. Cycles and Vespas in Livorno, Italy Gondola at Gibraltar Our ride into the Andes in Chile Taking the train to Ottawa Riding the subway in Buenos Aires Continue reading Modes of Transport
Ailsa’s Travel Theme is History – please click images for a better view. The Chateau Laurier, a 660,000 square foot hotel in downtown Ottawa, was built for $2 million, between 1909 and 1912. When the hotel first opened, private rooms cost $2 a night; and only 155 of the 350 bedrooms featured a private bath. The great Memorial Anchor at the end of Nyhavn in Copenhagen is a … Continue reading Historical Tidbits
Ailsa’s challenge – Where’s my backpack – asked for some weather shots. Please click on images for a better view. Storm brewing on the road to Ottawa, Ontario … Squalls on the Firth of Moray, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland … Winter in the Eastern Counties, Ontario Summer rain in my garden … More rain, Florence, Italy … Glorious autumn weather on the Boulevard de Clichy, Paris And … Continue reading Weather, mostly rain
As a young girl I spent many hours with a book called A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. I still have the book, now 60 years old. My selection is” Where Go the Boats”. Click on any image for a larger view. Dark brown is the river, Golden is the sand. It flows along forever, With trees on either hand. Green leaves … Continue reading Where go the boats?
Please click on any image for a larger view This was taken in Glen Nevis, Ontario on the grounds of the Abbey for the Arts. I went over one fall day to take some shots and found this fellow roaming the grounds. And the white mask of a human statue in Warnemunde, Germany on May Day Mardi Gras masks in Venice Ailsa’s travel theme: masks Continue reading Who was that masked man anyway?
Featured image taken at the Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland Please click on images for larger view Calle Florida in Buenos Aires Guitarist, Tallinn Dancers in Montevideo Oom-pah band, Warnemunde, Germany Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Entertainment Continue reading Free Entertainment
Above, window shopping in Tallin. Below, a busker in Ottawa doing his routine. Please click on images for a larger view. Riding the subway in St. Petersburg Walking the dog in Edinburg Ailsa’s travel theme: routine Continue reading Back to Routine
The featured photo was taken at Newgale Beach in Wales. Below, waves behind our ship as we sailed through the Stockholm Archipelago in the Baltic Sea The Straits of Magellan La Bloque Beach near Cheticamp, Cape Breton Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Waves Continue reading Waves
“We become who we believe we are. If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” – Henry Ford Please click on image for a larger view Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Inspiration Continue reading Visual Quotation 72 – Inspiration
Five for Ailsa’s travel theme: Camaraderie Please click on any image for a larger view. Continue reading Celebrating Connection
Ailsa’s travel theme: Faces Continue reading Faces
Ailsa’s travel theme: Luminous Continue reading Lamplight/3
Beyond the Brush 