LETS GO FOR A SWIM

THE MOST UNIQUE POOLS IN THE WORLD HERE

I LIKE THE POOL SHAPED LIKE A GUITAR

I THINK ELVIS WOULD HAVE LIKED IT TOO

QUOTE OF THE DAY

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
                                ~Gil Stern

FLOATING AWAY

DIFFERENT THINGS THAT FLOAT HERE

I LIKE THE HOT AIR BALLONS

SOME OF THESE PHOTOS MADE ME DIZZY

QUOTE OF THE DAY

Imagination is the eye of the soul.
              ~Joseph Joubert

REFLECT ON THIS

THERE IS AN ART TO REFLECTION PHOTOGRAPHY

REFLECTIONS CAN BE BEAUTIFUL BUT CONFUSING

EVEN ANIMALS GET CONFUSED

QUOTE OF THE DAY

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
                               ~Edith Wharton

WAITING FOR THE BUS

CREATIVE AND AMAZING BUS STOPS

ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS IS CALLED "BUS STOP"

BY THE HOLLIES

IT IS THE STORY OF LOVE FOUND AT A BUS STOP

I COULDN'T FALL IN LOVE IN A WATERMELON BUS STOP

I WOULD BE TOO HUNGRY ALL THE TIME

QUOTE OF THE DAY

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.
                                       ~George Carlin

ICE ICE BABY

NOW THAT IT IS WARMING UP

LETS LOOK AT ICEBERGS HERE

THE WIND AND WATER SHAPE THEM

SO THAT THEY ARE STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL

QUOTE OF THE DAY

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

- Alexander Graham Bell

LUNAR NEW YEAR IN CHINA

CHINESE NEW YEAR 2009 HERE

THE CHINESE GET A LITTLE DRAMATIC ON NEW YEARS

BUT EACH CULTURE CELEBRATES IN DIFFERENT WAYS

QUOTE OF THE DAY

                           You can't change your past but you can change your future.
                                                                     ~unknown

FOREST FEVER

FOREST PHOTOS HERE

I LOVE FORESTS AND MOUNTAINS

I WOULD LIKE TO LIVE IN THE MIDDLE OF A FOREST

EXCEPT IT MIGHT BE SCARY AT NIGHT

GOING TO CHURCH

UNIQUE CHURCH BUILDINGS HERE

THESE ARE SOME AMAZING PHOTOS

I NEVER KNEW CHURCHES COULD LOOK

SO DIFFERENT OR BEAUTIFUL

TOUR DE FRANCE

GREAT PHOTOS OF FRANCE HERE

I LIKE LOOKING AT PHOTOS OF FRANCE

I AM NOT SURE I WANT TO GO THERE

I WOULD RATHER GO TO HAWAII

MINI-ME TOWN

TILT SHIFT PHOTOGRAPHY HERE

THESE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE REAL

THEY ARE FAKED THROUGH A PROCESS OF PHOTOGRAPHY

TO LOOK LIKE THEY ARE MINATURE

QUOTE OF THE DAY

Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow.
                            ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

TOURIST BOATS

PHOTOS OF VENICE HERE

TOO MUCH WATER IN THIS CITY FOR ME

I WOULD NOT WANT TO MAKE A LIVING

HAULING TOURISTS IN A BOAT ALL DAY

QUOTE OF THE DAY

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
                                    ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

PAST AND FUTURE

FUTURISTIC CAR OF THE PAST HERE

THIS CAR WAS BUILT IN 1948

IT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING FROM ANOTHER PLANET

MAYBE SPACE VISITORS BUILT IT

QUOTE OF THE DAY

Dreams are like the paints of a great artist. Your dreams are your paints, the world is your canvas. Believing is the brush that converts your dreams into a masterpiece of reality.

DREAMS ABOVE THE BED

DREAMS ABOVE HER BED HERE

I WOULD NOT WANT MY DREAMS ABOVE MY BED

THEY ARE TOO SURREAL AND STRANGE

QUOTE OF THE DAY

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
                       ~Jean de la Bruyere

SOLACE

SHE RETURNED TO THE FOREST

SEEKING REFUGE FROM THE NIGHT

SHE RETURNED TO THE MEADOW

SEEKING STRENGTH FROM THE LIGHT

ISLAND VACATION

PHOTOS FROM BORA BORA HERE

SOME ISLANDS IN THE PACIFIC NEAR TAHITI

QUOTE OF THE DAY

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
                                        ~Anton Chekhov

MONEY MONEY MONEY

PICTURES FROM DUBAI HERE

A SMALL COUNTRY GETTING RICH ON OIL

IT WAS ONCE NOTHING BUT DESERT

MONO LAKE

STRANGE FORMATIONS ON MONO LAKE HERE

THIS LOOKS LIKE AN ALIEN PLANET TO ME

QUOTE OF THE DAY

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
                     ~George Washington Carver

UNDERCOVER

UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY HERE

THE SHARKS STILL SCARE ME