Just for fun post a non-porn pic.

[dpnice]

You're right! This thread has been a helluva lot of fun!!

I do believe that even if it was necessary to delete this thread due to technological problems related to the presence of so many photographs that immediately one of us would start it all over again.

It has been one of the most pleasurable threads to visit every day and some of the images have been incredible plus the way it opens up the world to us more sedentary jubbers.

 

[dynk]

It is a very pleasurable thread and I will soon be posting some of my pictures in here.

 

[star-warrior]

Jeff Bridges imitating Julia Child on SNL. Classic.

 

[buttons]

Giant Vase by Andrea Branzi for the Design Museum, Ghent, Belgium

I'd love to see a vase that size filled with an enormous bouquet of flowers...

 

[buzzj]

It is a very pleasurable thread and I will soon be posting some of my pictures in here.

That's good news!!

 

[buzzj]

A Haitian holds up a candle in a mud pool during a voodoo festival at the village of Plaine de Nord

 

[buzzj]

A place of peace, tranquility and reflectiveness.... in the middle of Lebanon.

Very poignant, Rafik. I'm happy you're posting in this thread!!

 

[wit_afrika]

Winter 2006 South Africa
This is the town of Sutherland. Many other parts of the country have seen snow for the first time in many years.

 

[wit_afrika]

Thanks for the pics guys...keep this thread going!

 

[nwdavis]

Winter 2006 South Africa
This is the town of Sutherland. Many other parts of the country have seen snow for the first time in many years.

I often forget that those of you South of the equator are in the middle of winter. Thanks for the pretty and snowy pictures.

 

[buzzj]

Thanks for the pics guys...keep this thread going!

You bet! Thanks for the winter pix! I'm feeling much cooler now!!

 

[buzzj]

Senate Square IN Helsinki Finland is a legacy from Russian rule in the 19th century.

 

[buttons]

sorry guys can't upload attachment. Ah well it was only me on my knees

 

[buzzj]

sorry guys can't upload attachment. Ah well it was only me on my knees

KEEP TRYING!!

 

[buttons]

Sigh...sorry buzzj. I've been trying for the past 5 minutes and am starting to feel slightly frustrated. Another time maybe.

 

[Rafik]

Senate Square IN Helsinki Finland is a legacy from Russian rule in the 19th century.

That's interesting. I see a close affinity to buildings around Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin.

The Helsingfors Cathedral was built by the Finnish-German architect Carl Engel. He was born in Berlin and a good friend of Karl Friedrich Schinkel - the most important architect of Prussian classicism.

While Schinkel stayed in Berlin when Napoleon occupied Prussia in 1806 for eight years and earned his money by painting theater scenery sets, Engel exiled to Finland. There he became the most important architect, what he still today is celebrated for on the side of Alvar Alto.

BTW the scenery set used in Mozart's Magic Flute for the "Queen of the Night" aria ("The vengeance of Hell boils in my heart...."), and still today used by most of the Opera Houses around the world goes back to Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the great German classicist architect.

 

[buzzj]

BTW the scenery set used in Mozart's Magic Flute for the "Queen of the Night" aria ("The vengeance of Hell boils in my heart...."), and still today used by most of the Opera Houses around the world goes back to Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the great German classicist architect.

I had never heard that! The picture you posted is the same one on my (Naxos) recording of the opera.

 

[buzzj]

Lightning strikes above the Luxor Hotel during a thunderstorm in Las Vegas, Nevada

 

[wit_afrika]

2August2006. The winter weather which brought the snow in the pics a few posts back also caused flooding along the southern & eastern Cape coast.

These are pics of damage to homes in the village of Glentana in the southern Cape.

 

[buzzj]

A Peruvian soldier wears camouflaged gear during a military parade in Lima to celebrate Independence Day (I'm trying to figure out whether he's camouflaged as a llama!!).