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Friday 31 January 2003 Pix of the Day: World's Best Weasel, Possibly CREDITS: © Dr. Donald A. Klosterman/Images of Beautiful Places Image version for larger monitors. Thumbnail clicks for normal view ![]() The Phrase Finder utility contains this entry: 'Stewart Chaplin's story 'Stained glass political platform', 1900, contains 'Why, weasel words are words that suck the life out of the words next to them, just as a weasel sucks the egg and leaves the shell.' Theodore Roosevelt made use of the term in 1916 when criticizing President Wilson. Yesterday I mentioned the second highest bridge in the United States. Today's feature is about the highest bridge, the Royal Gorge Bridge, near Cañon City, Colorado, or about 50 miles southwest of Denver as the crow flies. Reliable sources, such as the official bridge web site, only claim this as the highest suspension bridge in the world. Clearly in the world of records and superlatives those weasel words have great importance. Other bridges claim the record of highest, always adding their own weasels, such as reinforced concrete or girder. I was unable to discover the highest unweaseled bridge. There is an Indian Army bridge in the Himalayas at an unweaseled 18,379 feet, but we are not discussing that kind of height here. That source for that link says the name of the bridge is 'Bailey Bridge', which shows just how suspect Internet information can be. The Guinness Records web site will respond to 'longest bridge' as a search term (the Second Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, which joins Mandeville and Metairie, Louisiana, USA. 23 miles and 1,538 yds long, completed 1969), but is suspiciously mute on 'highest bridge'. Record buffs may like to read about a jaw dropping bridge that is planned to cross the Straits of Messina, between Sicily and mainland Italy. This weblog is not about records, however. It is about pictures of excellence or interest. The webmaster is the highest authority in this matter, and brooks no argument. Qualifying pictures of the Royal Gorge Bridge were susprisingly few and far between. My search led me to Don Klosterman's 'Images of Beautiful Places' web site, where today's featured image may be found along with others of the bridge. If you enjoy photo galleries of interesting locations, hit the link at the head of this article for a rewarding tour. What does not seem to be disputed is that the drop from the Royal Gorge Bridge to the river is a vertigo inducing 1,053 feet. Cars were formerly allowed across, but now only pedestrian may pass. There are small gaps between the deck planks, which need regular renewal, and bridge movement can be sensed when crossing. Please note that fishing from the bridge is not allowed. Thursday 30 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Single Arch Steel Bridge King CREDITS: © National Park Service/www.NPS.org Version for larger monitors. Thumbnail clicks for normal view. ![]() Wednesday 29 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Error in Apostle Numbers CREDITS: © Bruce Henderson/www.WarrnamboolCAM.com Thumbnail clicks for normal view. MAP: Warrnamabool & Melbourne. ![]() UPDATE: a grovelling retraction is required. Eagle eyed Australian correspondent Eric Shackle, a former hot metal journalist who has to my cost transferred his skills to the digital medium, has taken me to task over my wild assertion that his fellow countrymen are innumerate. It seems there were originally twelve Apostles, but one of them fell victim to the depredations of the ocean. On Clausewitz' advice, I will respond by asking that someone supply me with the name of the fallen Apostle: all answers on the back of a high denomination banknote in the currency of your choice. Tuesday 28 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Ships of All Different Sizes CREDITS: © Charles Winpenny/www.CornwallCAM.co.uk Thumbnail clicks for normal view ![]() ![]() Monday 27 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Bleakness of High Lakeland CREDITS: © Tony Richards/LakelandCAM.co.uk Version for larger monitors. MAP: Blea Tarn. Thumbnail clicks for normal view. ![]() Blea Tarn in the English Lake District lies on the hill road between the two valleys of Great and Little Langdale. At this time of year the bracken is dead and brown, and there is a beautiful air of bleakness and austerity about the scene. A little later in the year the new green fronds of the bracken will tranform the color of the place. Then the visitors will return in large numbers, many unaware that they have missed seeing the area in one of its most beautiful aspects. Sunday 26 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Covered Bridges of New Hampshire CREDITS: © Erin Paul Donovan/LivesFree.com Thumbnails click for normal views. ![]() ![]() There are over 50 covered bridges in New Hampshire alone, including the Cornish-Windsor bridge, which at 460 feet is the longest covered bridge in America. One fascinating piece of trivia is that bridges over the Connecticut River are listed only in New Hampshire. That is as a result of a 1934 United States Supreme Court decision that determined the border with Vermont to be the low water mark on the western bank of the Connecticut River. Why are the bridges covered? Those old time builders were practical men, so forget all the stories of kissing trysts and hidden battalions! The coverings protect the valuable structure from the weather, and prevent snow load that might cause collapse. If you want a pictorial introduction to the delights of New Hampshire then Erin Paul's web site is a good place to start. I also enjoyed the cloud pictures, and the bird pictures, and lovers of scenery will find many aspects of New Hampshire spread through several of the sections. This site is a fine addition to the growing collection of worldwide CAMera sites represented on this weblog. A reader's comment on pishtush: "He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up to the topmost pinnacle of tosh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash." [H.L. Mencken, on Warren G. Harding, in the 'Baltimore Evening Sun' (1921); quoted in the 'Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations' (2001). Thanks for noticing go to Eric Shackle, and Michael Quinion's 'World Wide Words'.] Saturday 25 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Everywhere a Click from Here CREDITS: © Charles Winpenny/CornwallCAM.co.uk Thumbnail clicks for normal view. ![]() Friday 24 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Across a Green & Pleasant Land CREDITS: © Don Burluraux/NorthYorkMoorsCAM MAP: Stokesley, Thirsk & Kirkbymoorside area. Thumbnail clicks for normal view. ![]() Thursday 23 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Panorama From Smith Mesa
Click on the static image to load a scollable panorama. ![]() Earlier in the week I featured some pictures taken from Smith Mesa. Using a series of 17 pictures I created a 180° panorama looking out from the edge of the escarpment in a sweep from the Kolob heights on the left, past the highest peaks of Zion Canyon, and ending with the plateau country that runs down into Arizona. The resulting movie met my expectations, but at 3Mb in size was not the sort of thing I might reasonably offer to visitors, unless they were fortunate enough to possess very fast broadband connections. Added to all that I have been told that Microsoft, in a fit of pique quite untypical of their usual concern for users' needs hahaha, have removed Quicktime support from Windows XP and later PC versions of their browsers. I have coded the recommended workaround, but who knows what might happen? My own local copy of the panorama allows zooming in to view individual rocks, but the file is huge, taxing even a fast system without the additional overhead of an Internet connection. So here you have a Poor Man's Panorama, without zooming features, but at least it scrolls. Life is just a long series of compromises. Wednesday 22 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Give Me a Place to Stand Thumbnail clicks for normal view. ![]() Tuesday 21 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Topsy-Turvy in the Southwest MAP: Smith Mesa topographic. Thumbnails click for normal view. ![]() ![]() Monday 20 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Eye Level With The Zion Giants Thumbnail clicks for normal view. ![]() Sunday 19 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Yearning Challenges Preconceptions Thumbnail clicks for normal view. ![]() Today we had pre-spring in southern Utah. The air was warm, and the sunshine now has a warning of the burning heat we will experience once May arrives. It seems that by common consent this was the start of the motorcycling season. Shiny cruisers were much in evidence on the streets, with groups (or gangs if you happen to be a tabloid journalist) of motorcyclists forgathering in mall parking lots. They certainly project an aura of aggression, but I have always found them to be friendly and sociable if they are engaged by unassuming conversation. Coming from an age and culture where display of unabashed ostentation is eschewed, I find machines such as the one pictured to be something of a personal challenge to my preconceptions. On the other hand I yearned to be twenty something again with my sweetie on the pillion cruising the Interstate on this behemoth. Those seats certainly look at least as comfortable as my armchair at home. The pilot's view sings the joy of the open road. Am I being over imaginative to think that the full frontal view is like the sort of shy smile one gets from the sort of girl who knows she carries all before her? Saturday 18 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Did The Bridge Move For You Too? CREDIT (LH): © Ian Britton/FreeFoto.com ![]() CREDIT (RH): © David Robertson/DaveRob.org.uk Thumbnails click for normal view. ![]() ![]() Friday 17 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Tarantella on Octopussy Bridge Thumbnails click for normal view. ![]() ![]() Work is proceeding for the addition of a second carriageway to the Hurricane Arch Bridge. Regular visitors may remember that this bridge starred in the James Bond movie 'Octopussy'. A friend, to whom we had sent a calendar featuring one of the spectacular bridges that are required hereabouts to carry roads across the canyons, asked later, "How do they set about building these bridges?" Here's how! Teetering on the edge of one of the abutments to take the picture of the work in progress, I suddenly remembered that I often get mild vertigo these days. I was standing with each foot on a separate piece of the steel reinforcement that protruded from the concrete kickers out over a drop of two hundred feet. My knees began to shake, and the motion was taken up by the steel work, causing me to perform a ludicrous tarantella. Almost hysterical, I imagined that Monty Python scene in the Cheese Shop sketch, but with Italian mandolins instead of Greek bouzoukis. For a brief moment I contemplated throwing myself onto the adjacent shuttering to escape from this predicament, finally opting for an undignified backwards shuffle to safety. If you detect camera shake in the gorge picture, perhaps you will make allowances. Thursday 16 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Windows of Opportunity Thumbnail clicks for normal view. ![]() Nearby Quail Lake has the distinction of having two dams. One is in the obvious place where the run off heads down the valley. The other is at the side of the lake, which is otherwise contained by an escarpment. An upheaval back in geological time cut a sharp defile through the bluff, which the reservoir builders plugged with an earth dam. Late one afternoon we were scouting around the holding tank below the side dam. Our purpose was to find a track that might allow access to the escarpment. In this jumble of basin & range geology it is always difficult to guess where good viewpoints may occur, but I had the feeling the high point of the escarpment might be a possibility. We were on the wrong side of the Virgin River, which runs along the base of the escarpment. No access. Hey ho! Given the dull light, and the time of day, it was an unlikely occasion for pictorial photography. However, as we reached the end of the holding tank to turn and retrace our steps, I saw this clump of pampas grasses growing at the waters edge. Just then the sun burst below the horizon, briefly flooding us with a golden light. I took the picture you see here, but the others in the series are dull in comparison, because that brief illumination only lasted about 5 seconds, then the cloud and horizon regained control. Wednesday 15 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Cornish Country Park Wildlife CREDITS: © Charles Winpenny/www.CornwallCAM.co.uk Thumbnail clicks for normal view ![]() ![]() Tuesday 14 January 2003 Pix of the Day: John Graham Hardware CREDITS: © John & Stuart Graham/www.JohnGrahamHardware.co.uk Thumbnail clicks for normal view. MAP: Longtown ![]() Every town needs a John Graham Hardware branch. John, seen here sitting contentedly outside the shop as is often the case when the weather is fine, told me that he had never taken a holiday in 20 years, and that he had only been off sick once. Let's hope that now son Stuart has joined him in the business that he's going to take things a bit easier, though I bet he's still in that chair the next time you go by. Monday 13 January 2003 Pix of the Day: A Lion, a Lamb, and a Howitzer CREDITS: © Dave Newton/www.Daves-Lakeland-Mountains.co.uk Thumbnails click for normal view, also larger & extra large [1: L-X] [2: L-X] [3: L-X] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On a fine winter's morning in the English Lake District, photographer Dave Newton took these pictures under some amazing lighting conditions. The hill is Helm Crag, which has a summit rock outcrop that is said to resemble from different angles a lion with a lamb, or a howitzer. Dave retired recently, and treated himself to a new camera and his own domain name. Let us hope this means we may look forward to lots more pictures like these shown in today's feature. If you are using a larger monitor these pictures will display in superb detail if you click one of the popup links for larger or extra larger images, which are located in the header of this article. Sunday 12 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Giants, Hoodoos, and Devils at Work CREDITS: © Don Burluraux/NorthYorkMoorsCAM Thumbnails click to larger image. MAPS: [Arches National Park (PDF format); North York Moors] ![]() ![]() A while back I featured a picture of the Hole of Horcum, the starting point for one of Don Burluraux' illustrated walks in the North York Moors of northeast England. Now Don has added the complete walk, which ends 9 miles away in Malo Cross. Read Don's walk log for the stories behind the names of these places, and the traditions associated with them in folklore. I had forgotten just how green is the land of by birth. Here in the high desert southwest of the USA my eyes have become accustomed to bare rock scenery in shades of red and brown. When I first arrived people would ask what I thought of the town. My usual teasing answer was that it was wonderful, but I couldn't understand why they chose to build it in the middle of a rock quarry. Now I realise that the rock quarry extends for hundreds of miles in every direction, and I have grown to love its arid beauty. nevertheless it was a treat to see the saturated greens in Don's pictures, especially the knee high bracken. Despite this, the pictures I have chosen to feature are yet more rocks. Don's walk passed through the Bridestone Rocks, a name he says may be derived from the Old Norse word for an 'edge' or 'brink'. This area was glaciated so I imagine the rocks were left when the glaciers retreated at the end of the last Ice Age, and the elements have since eroded away these siliceous sandstone rocks. Hereabouts the 'hoodoos' of Bryce Canyon are a well known example of strangely formed rocks, best seen in John Catalano's gallery. However, an even stranger set of rocks can be seen in the Devil's Garden in the northern part of the Arches National Park in southeast Utah: that picture is from Shayok Mukhopadhyay's web site with a tale of meeting up with a Punjabi trucker on his way to fight unfair traffic tickets issued in New Mexico. This is a strange land, where strange events often happen. I wonder if the Punjabi trucker ever bought an hotel in Moab? 'Notes from the Road', one of my favorite web sites, has an extensive feature on the whole area called the 'Great Basin Grand Staircase Escalante,' with fine photographs and excellent travel writing. If you plan to visit then UtahRedRocks has an excellent introductory guide. Saturday 11 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Spiritual Calm in High Places CREDITS: © Andrew Leaney/www.Leaney.org Thumbnail clicks for normal view. MAP: Mungrisdale (pronounced 'mung-grizedale'). ![]() It is said that Mt. Kailash, Tibet's most sacred mountain, is rooted through the seventh hell while bursting through the highest heaven, and so is considered to be the World Pillar. One 32 mile trek along the 'kora', or sacred circuit of the mountain, is said to wash away the sins of a lifetime. Undertaking 108 circuits is said to ensure Nirvana. Martin Gray is an anthropologist and photographer specializing in the study of sacred sites and pilgrimage traditions around the world. Over the past eighteen years, Martin has visited and photographed more than 1,000 sacred sites in eighty countries. He has also written a book 'Places of Peace and Power', with the Introduction and Chapters 1 & 2 available online. Although he doesn't specifically mention the area around Mungrisdale, I am sure Martin would recognize the significance of the place if he ever visited. If you are a person who has ever felt spiritually moved by a sense of place then you may find Sacred Sites a place worthy of an extended investigation. Friday 10 January 2003 Pix of the Day: He Almost Dueled with Lincoln Thumbnails click for normal view. ![]() ![]() My own life has regrettably been characterized by almost achieving many things. Although it would be unfair of me to impugn the character of General James Shields with such an accusation, it does seem that he must have often fallen short of his own ambitions. nevertheless, judged as a man who never gave up trying, I have to admit that he had more of a share of success than I ever expect to have. The statue of Shields [inscription] stands in front of the courthouse in Carrollton, Missouri. The bust [inscriptions 1 and 2] rests on a plinth above Shields' final resting place, in the St. Mary's Cemetery of the town that has honored him with a statue. You may read about the duel he almost had with Abraham Lincoln, around the time when they competed for the hand of the lady who eventually became Lincoln's wife, and whose behavior was the cause of the challenge. After his military career (located at the bottom of that page, as you might understand after reading) Shields went on to reportedly be the only person ever to represent three different states in the US Senate, twice failing to be re-elected and finally giving up through poor health. My own feeling after reading about Shields is that he might have achieved greater things if the tide of history had not so often run against him. A bit like me really… Thursday 9 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Snow in the Desert CREDITS: Robert F. Riberia/www.UtahRedRocks.com Thumbnails click to link to originating web page. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Today's featured photographer is Robert F. Riberia, whose 'Utah Red Rocks' web site has given me much pleasure in the last couple of month. If you click on the left hand thumbnail you will be able to visit Robert's 'Picture of the Week', page which is currently featuring his favorite image from 2002. The other 3 thumbnails click to link to Robert's Gallery No.8, which contains a remarkable set of pictures taken in the high desert of the Colorado Plateaus during snow and fog conditions. Looking through the galleries on this web site it is easy to see why the photographer became so obsessed with this place that he left his life in the sophisticated urban northeast to move here among the rugged red rocks of the desert southwest. Wednesday 8 January 2003 Pix of the Day: The Grandeur That Was Rome CREDITS: © Paolo Borgognone/www.Rome-CAM.com Thumbnail clicks for normal view. ![]() Tuesday 7 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Scottie in the Mist CREDITS: © Garth Newton/www.IlkCAM.com Thumbnail clicks for normal view. ![]() Monday 6 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Calmer Weather in Warrnambool CREDITS: © Bruce Henderson/www.WarrnamboolCAM.com Thumbnail clicks for normal view. MAP: Warrnamabool & Melbourne. ![]() In search of softer climes I surfed over to Warrnambool, which is west of Melbourne on Australia's south coast. The report from the webmaster at WarrnamboolCAM is that yesterday they were experiencing "Slightly overcast conditions with a top temperature of 20 degrees and a slight sea breeze - not quite warm enough to be on the beach…" Later, perhaps after a beer at the 'Criterion', described as "One of the few real working men's pubs still surviving - good bar trade and a good place to catch a glimpse of a real Aussie country pub", I thought we might select a restaurant from the local guide: my own fancy was 'Bo Jangles', which the reviewer (whose identity remains shrouded in mystery to prevent the offer of monetary inducements by proprietors, I guess, though an Australian correspondent tells me that Bruce Henderson might be responsible) says is "A bustling pizza and pasta restaurant with a reputation for quality food." Back here the sunset was like something out of a Botticelli painting, raw underlit red clouds seen through the red dust blown up from the 'Red Rock Country' around here. Isn't the net cool? We just circumnavigated the globe without leaving our seats. Now if only the power company can get their act together… Sunday 5 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Immortal Fish in Florida & Cumbria Thumbnail clicks for normal view ![]() Cursed as I am by the affliction of making connections to every occurrence of my daily life, when I saw these fish in the foyer of a restaurant at the Universal Studios theme park in Orlando, Florida, these lines of Wordsworth's sprang to mind: Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle: William Wordsworth (1770-1850) "And both the undying fish that swim Through Bowscale Tarn did wait on him; The pair were servants of his eye In their immortality; And glancing, gleaming, dark or bright, Moved to and fro, for his delight." Bowscale Tarn is a forbidding glacial cwym in the Northern Fells of the English Lake District. The Wordsworths, William and his sister Dorothy, passed this way on their journey to the Highlands of Scotland. I suppose when Wordsworth was invited to the knees-up to celebrate "Upon the Restoration of Lord Clifford, The Shepherd, to the Estates and Honours of His Ancestors" he felt he ought to sing for his supper, or at least declaim one of his more tedious odes. It seems that as Wordsworth grew older he also grew more long winded and boring: contrast the tight craft of his most famous work, 'The Daffodils' (1804), with the slightly later 'Feast of Brougham Castle' (1807). Taking the hint, I'll see you again tomorrow! Saturday 4 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Walking as a Spiritual Exercise CREDITS: © George. M. Henke. Thumbnail clicks for normal view. ![]() This labyrinth was constructed by George Henke, who sent me the picture after he had walked his labyrinth at the Winter Solstice. Perhaps some definitions are in order: a maze is 'a network of paths and hedges designed as a puzzle for those who try to penetrate it', whereas a labyrinth is 'a complicated irregular network of passages or paths'. The essential difference (in this context even although your dictionary may suggest the words are interchangeable) is that a maze is non-unicursal, with many intersections and dead ends, whereas a labyrinth is unicursal with continuous flowing path. In other words a maze is designed to drive you crazy, whereas a labyrinth will soothe you for meditational walking. This may all sound a little too woo-woo and New Age psycho babble for some, but trust me: I have walked George's labyrinth and been soothed. The giant New Mexico skies with an enormous brassy red sun sinking below somber grey clouds, and the 7,000 feet of elevation with convivial and generous hosts were merely added bonuses to the proceedings. If your still with me then you may care to visit the web pages for the Labyrinth section on the Awakenings: Simple Solutions for Life's Problems web site. There you will find some notes on labyrinth walking, and how it can be used as a meditation: as the author explains, "At its most basic level the labyrinth is a metaphor for the journey to the center of your deepest self and back out into the world with a broadened understanding of who you are." The site has lots of other equally interesting sections, including enneagrams, mind states, metamorphosis, cycles of change, and Jungian psychology. There is a pitch for the book 'Lessons for Living' by Daniel H. Johnston but it is not done at all intrusively. Everything is presented simply, and like the labyrinths, "…there is only one choice to be made. The choice is to enter or not." For those with a practical interest in labyrinths I recommend the 'Caerdroia' web site at Labyrinthos.net for an introduction to the history of labyrinths in many cultures. Best of all they have 'Practical Geomancy' section with an animation that finally allowed me to grasp how mazes are built from seed patterns expanding outwards. Friday 03 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Cake Shop Double Entendre CREDITS: © Tony Richards/www.LakelandCAM.co.uk Thumbnail clicks for normal view. MAP: Lakeland ![]() Herdwick meat from suppliers such as Agnus is a delicious treat for epicureans; their wool makes hard wearing garments from local suppliers such as Crookabeck; without them the land would soon become derelict, and less appealing to the millions who now visit annually to enjoy the beauty of this wonderful place. The district also produces other foodstuffs that made my mouth water on this sentimental journey, many included on Helen Gaffney's web page for Cumbria. I remember 'tea breads' that were quite literally made with strong tea, and a variety of soda cone that my mother called 'biskies'. The sausage is every bit as good when eaten cold with locally ground mustard in a sandwich on a fell top as it is served hot for a simple meal with spuds and vegetables. The Rum Butter is delicious on traditional oatcakes, or used to flavor the slow cooked mutton. I tried to think of the treat I missed most, but if you have knowledge of the vernacular of the USA you will understand that asking for Rock Buns is fraught with potential for misunderstanding. Thursday 2 January 2003 Pix of the Day: How to Become Famous CREDITS: © Charles Winpenny/www.CornwallCAM.co.uk Thumbnails click for normal view. ![]() ![]() The longer perspective of history is indifferent to our present assessments of worth. I wonder how many people in these lists will be remembered for their achievements 500 years from now? The top 100 list includes entries for some people already forgotten by most of us, and some that we wish we only could, but it is a wonderful jumping off point for many interesting biographies, including late comer Marie Stopes trailing in last place. Cabot never made the cut this year - because unfortunately, like so many other Great Britons, he is disqualified through being born elsewhere. Wednesday 1 January 2003 Pix of the Day: Fish & Chips Utah Style ![]() ![]() |
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