S is for Scenery Seen

Shanghai, China

Summer Palace, Beijing

Sagrada Familia, Spain

Seville, Spain

Ship on the Mediterranean Sea, Spain

Spectacular sunset, Galapagos Islands

Sweet Swiss house with balcony

Southeastern Alberta in Spring, 2012

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ABC Wednesday

Mrs. Nesbitt's alphabetical meme. Thanks, Denise!

Camera Critters: tame, working, and wild

Donkeys in Switzerland, April, 2011.

Horse'n'carriage, Seville, Spain, December, 2008.

Juvenile red-footed booby, Galapagos Islands.

© Photos by Richard Schear and Kay Davies

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Camera Critters

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Watery Wednesday: happy belated birthday

Congratulations to the beautiful country of Switzerland, which celebrated its birthday on August 1. It's been a long time since the year 1291, so long that it staggers the imagination of a Canadian whose country is less than 200 years old. Way to go, Switzerland, 720 years! We love you.

In honor of the delightful people we met, and the wonderful country we saw for the first time this year, I'm posting three "watery" pictures my husband captured as we rode the Glacier Express train from Zermatt to St. Moritz in April.

The first shows a small river or large creek in spring flood. The next features a big hole in a mountain (one of the Swiss Alps), with a bit of water trickling from it, and the third shows a waterfall nearby.

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Photos by Richard Schear, April, 2011

My World was in a few places for a few weeks

The Netherlands
March, 2011
Ten days aboard the Viking Pride, with Viking River Cruises.
Left, Hoorn.
Right, Kinderdijk.

Belgium

Left, in Brugge.

Right, here I am at the Atomium in Brussels.

France

Left, Marseille.


Right, Paris.













April, 2011
The south of France
We rented a condo at Malibu Village (right) in Canet-en-Roussillon. For day-trips we took a bus to Perpignan train station.
From our bus stop (above), we could see Mount Canigou in the Pyrenees.



In the very south of France, we visited Collioure, where the artist Matisse found inspiration.

© Photos by Kay Davies and Richard Schear    

Switzerland
Left and right, St. Moritz, the terminus for the Glacier Express train.

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My World Tuesday

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Mellow Yellows seen from a train in the Swiss Alps

Photos taken in April, 2011, during our March/April trip to Europe.

© Photos by Richard Schear    

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