Mt Minto, Antarctica
This is a really unusual place to spend New Year's Eve, under the midnight sun. We flew from Antarctica's Point Adare, following the Ross Sea littoral as far as Terra Nova and the Italian base there. We left Sydney Airport at 5.00 pm Dec 31st 2006 and returned 6.00 am the next morning.
Olentangy River, Columbus Ohio. I cross this river every day. This bridge is about two miles from my apartment.
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Parramatta, NSW.
And no, I don't have available pictures of Parramatta, the home of the Parramatta Eels. DiGoRyKiRkE does much better than me in the home stakes.
wagga: I am so humbled by the places you have been! Antarctica???!!!! Wow!! Incredible!
Thank you, very much. I've enjoyed everyone else's photos, too. It did help my travellings that my Scottish-born husband, whose family migrated here when he was a teenager, has often had bouts of homesickness for Scotland. But I haven't got digital photos of all the places I've been to, even in Australia, let alone the places I haven't been to. I only started posting pictures when you mentioned Linlithgow near where my husband came from. The Antarctic journey was a Christmas/New Year/Birthday present for my husband, moaning about White Christmases.
Russia
always be humble and kind
Tocumwal, NSW
(The Murray River at Tocumwal. I might get to visit the township one day )
wild rose: Wow!! How nice and green Russia looks in your photo.
wagga: That's about as white as a Christmas can get!
Actually Antarctica made me think of Narnia: Always winter, never Christmas. They gave us vanilla ice-cream for dessert on the plane - Qantas by the way.
Ukraine
NW sister - wild rose ~ NW big sis - ramagut
Born in the water
Take quick to the trees
I want all that You are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EADBC57vKfQ
Vatican City
Love God, love people
Warsaw, Poland.
This first picture is of King Jan Sobieski's tomb. This scene reminded me so much of something out of LOTR Two Towers, I just had to post it. Jan Sobieski was the Polish hero king who, in 1683, led his hussars southwards to the relief of Vienna, when that city was besieged by Ottoman Turkish armies.
The second picture is of the marketplace where there is a statue of the legendary founders of Warsaw, Var & Zawa and the Mermaid. Whilst the third is of the Warsaw Uprising against Nazi forces in World War II. At that time 80% of Warsaw was flattened, especially around the marketplace, and much has been rebuilt and restored to what it looked like prior to September 1939. There are a lot of other monuments all around Warsaw, to the Ghetto uprising, the persecution of the Jewish population, to Frederic Chopin, Nicholas Copernicus, Pope John Paul II, Tadeusz Kosciuszko (who has an Australian connection) and others.
Xinling Mountains, China
no longer active. every once in a while ill pop back for the memories. good to see a few recognizable names đ
Yemen.
Sig by Dernhelm_of_Rohan
NWsis to eves_daughter & ForeverFan
Zion, IL
I have been there, no pictures though. My sister had a cross country meet there last year.
memento mori
Ayr, Scotland
God rest you merry, gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay.
Remember Christ our Savior
Was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from Satan's pow'r
When we were gone astray.