Striding Edge on Helvellyn, seen across Nethermost Cove.

Looking very handsome in his new blanket.

Striding Sphinx

Ivory, Mesopotamia, excavated at Nimrud, Fort Shalmaneser

Neo-Assyrian period, Phoenician style

9th-8th century B.C.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 2012

A walk to town for Órgiva Market, 27th March 2014. Ref: D1143-056

Water-striders of the family-Gerridae is a predatory bug generally live in ponds,lakes or streams in large numbers. They glide like skillful skaters with their long slender legs. The under part of their hindquarters is set thick with hairs acting as an air cushion.

1976, Athena Tacha; painted steel. Ashland Chemical, Dublin, Ohio. USA

More on this sculpture:

www.sculpturecenter.org/oosi/sculpture.asp?SID=757

A mix and match of textures and tones.

Not sure it quite works but it kicks snow right in summer's bland little face and summer rolls around crying because it knows how pathetic it is.

A giraffe strides slowly and gracefully across the Serengeti plains in northern Tanzania

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Oct 16, 2011 NYSUT members participate in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer at Woodbury Commons in Central Valley..

Valley Central Middle School, Montgomery, NY: Carolyn Baker; Carolyn Thorp; Maddie Brooks [team leader since walk started]..

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Wheeler Gorge, CA.

Wall in Gomel (Belarus)

Strider is a purebred Tenesse Walking Horse Gelding. Age: 7/yrs.

A water strider, possibly a Gerris lacustris, skimming across the surface tension.