…with flashes of orange.
But such different paces of life.
Summer in Struisbaai allows such diversity of lifestyle (as long as it’s somehow boat-related).
Category: quota photo
Tower
Incoming stolen quota photo opportunity from BrianMicklethwait.com:
Very pretty – one of my favourite building on the London skyline. I did some of my Masters degree right underneath it. Interestingly, when it was built in the early 1960’s, as part of the British Government’s new microwave communications network, the UK was in the middle of the Cold War. The (then) Post Office Tower was designed as a cylinder, rather than a block simply because it had been noted that a greater number of cylindrical buildings survived the nuclear blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was hoped that if (or when) the Ruskies bombed London, the tower might survive, and with it, the all important communications network.
It may well have survived that, if it had ever happened, but it infamously fell foul of Twinkle, the giant kitten.
Yes. Kittens were huge (literally) in popular culture, even before the internet was around. And if Brian reads this before the end of the day, he’s got a lovely Feline Friday tie-in opportunity with his post from yesterday.
Overberging it
Taking a trip down south today. Through this:
Not sure who this is by, or where it’s from, but it looks a bit Swellendammy to me. Either way, the barley and the canola in the watery sunshine is so very Overbergesque.
I’ll try to keep my eyes on the road.
Early Morning, DXB
It’s not often that I do a post this early in the morning, but then it’s not often that I find myself sleepless in Seattle the Emirates Business Class lounge in Dubai this early in the morning. And we’ve now reached the point where I daren’t go to sleep in case I miss my flight.
Still there is fast, free Wi-Fi, giving me the opportunity to chuck a couple of pics up from my window seat on the way up here.
With legs the length of mine, I’m usually all about the aisle seats, but I opted for the extra room of seat 48K and it was actually quite nice to have a view for once.
Paris
Shorter on time today than on other days I might mention (see yesterday’s mammoth monologue about political interference in sport) (it’s better than it sounds) (really).
Thus, we head quota photo-ward and these beautiful images of Paris – specifically the Eiffel Tower in these two, but there are many more here:
The symmetry in that top one, though. Wow.
It’s always difficult with these gallery type posts, but I think that these are the work of Hungarian Zsolt Hlinka.
You can find more of his work here.