The Magnificent Splendour.

[Kulindahr]

^
I'm guessing Denmark.

 

[gsdx]

^ Looks more like the Alps with the châteaus and such.

 

[Cormac135]

Gannets Nesting

 

[Cormac135]

 

[Cormac135]

 

[herry1]

 

[Cormac135]

 

[Kyanimal]

Somewhere ?

^
I'm guessing Denmark.

^ Looks more like the Alps with the châteaus and such.

Found it! First time Google Images has actually worked!

Hallstatt, Austria ...

https://www.google.com/search?q=hallstatt&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

 

[gsdx]

^ It looked 'Alpish' to me.

And now, a different kind of snake:

 

[gsdx]

I grew up in Brighton, Ontario, a small town on the northern shore of Lake Ontario about an hour's drive east of Toronto. I grew up a block south of the railway tracks.

Back in November of 1994, two teenage boys decided to take the 'penny on a train rail' to the extreme and placed a metal pipe on the rail to see what would happen. Never could they have imagined the consequences of their action. A VIA Rail passenger train, heading eastward from Toronto, passed through Brighton just before 6:30 PM. The rain struck the pipe which, by complete fluke, spun around, became wedged between the rails, and pierced the floor of the train passing overhead. The passenger train burst into flames. This is the result. (Sorry for the quality of the photos. They were the only ones I could find and had to enlarge them from thumbnail-sized photos.)

Miraculously, nobody died in a fire which actually melted the train. Everybody managed to escape. The injured were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment and Brighton worked to make the rest of the stranded people comfortable, taking bedding and food to the school gymnasium which had been turned into a temporary and impromptu refuge for the night.

It was something of a miracle, to be sure.

 

[Hankerin1075]

Great posts. Very informative.

 

[Cormac135]

Thanks Chaz

 

[Cormac135]

A bit too rare for me.

 

[Cormac135]

 

[MJEH89]

 

[Yooper]

Happy Independence Day!

 

[Kulindahr]

^ Looks more like the Alps with the châteaus and such.

Good point -- I was thinking fjord, but that could easily be a lake.

 

[Kulindahr]

Wow! From that altitude the land below looks like a contour map!

 

[Kulindahr]

^ It looked 'Alpish' to me.

And now, a different kind of snake:

That looks like the engineers followed a level contour rather than building an embankment. The result is a touch of elegance!

 

[Kulindahr]

I think we often miss the magnificent radicalness of that phrase "thirteen united States": using that word was declaring that Virginia was an equal political entity with France or Denmark, that Rhode Island was as sovereign as Spain or the Netherlands. And while the reader of the time was still reeling from that shock, there came the greatest assertion in human political history in all its simple splendor:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...."