Posts Tagged ‘view’
interlude: Boulder, Colorado
I didn’t get to spend a lot of time in Boulder this time around, but here’s a series of photographs taken over the years from one of my favorite areas. Shots include the Flatirons and Chautauqua Park, where I went hiking with my friend Elbie, my grandmother’s house, shenanigans with my friend Leif, my grandmother, […]
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Tags: Boulder, Chataqua Park, clouds, Colorado, downtown, Flatirons, landscape, photography, view
This summer on my quasi-annual return trip to the United States I decided that I wanted to travel by train, rather than flying. This decision was partially to do with the fact that flying is one of the most carbon-unfriendly activities around, but equally due to the fact that I’ve come to despise air travel […]
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Tags: Amtrak, California, Cargill salt ponds, coast, Coast Starlight, CPR, defibrillation, Elkhorn Slough, EMT, farming, farmworkers, fruit picking, grapes, hidden landscapes, industry, insterstate highway system, landscape, Lompoc penitentiary, missile tests, ocean, salt ponds, train travel, trains, travel, U.S. military, view, wildlife preserves, wine, wine tasting
Nara redux redux
On the last day of The Bay Crew’s stay in Kansai, we headed out to Nara to see the Daibutsu at Todaiji. In fact, I think it’s the third time that I’ve been out to see Nara’s Daibutsu, and the Daibutsu and I are becoming old friends. The deer and I are becoming old friends […]
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Tags: Arhat, Binzuru, Buddhism, 着物, 羅漢, Daibutsu, Daibutsuden, deer, deer crackers, 阿羅漢, 鹿, 鹿せんべ, Great Buddha, kimono, nara, Nigatsu-do, Omizutori Matsuri, Pindola Bharadvaja, Rakan, sunset, temple, Todaiji, view, 大仏, 大仏殿, 奈良市, 東大寺, 二月堂
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