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Tour de Suisse - The 4 day Julie since when? Since 3 weeks in Honduras in 1996? Wow. Could be.
The LHT was a huge success. I love it. On the second day of the trip when I was still tired from the time change, I cycled over Col du Pillon. It's a 1200m climb from Lac L?man. After about 1000m the road steepens to 11%. My bike's fully loaded. I flipped it into the lowest gear and spun over the pass. Incredible. With the bike loaded I never felt like the high gear was too low. I still haven't taken the bike down a steep hill without bags, but I plan on doing that soon. I rode Flagstaff and Sunshine Canyon last Sunday but on my road bike with (for my first time!) clipless pedals. Oh, that's another story.
I flew in and out of Geneva. I arrived in the morning, dropped my bike box at Isabelle's apartment and pedalled out of town in the early afternoon. In a daze I cycled along the lake, entered France, walked through Yvoire, and found a fantastic place to camp on a river near Thonon-les-Bains. Oh, France, what a wonderful place!
The following day I was sad to leave France but even sadder to leave French-speaking Switzerland. The abrupt change came at Col du Pillon. In Les Diablerets it's all French. Just on the other side of the pass in Gstaad it's all German. I was afraid of this simply by looking at the names on the map. I confirmed it during my first conservation in Gstaad. I spoke French, and the person claimed not to speak any French. We continued our conversation in English. I speak no German. Of my two German phrases, sprehjer zie english? and sprehjer zie franz?sisch?, the former proved to be far more useful. In actuality I know a few more sentences, and the one I probably used the most was ich sprehjer kien deutsch.
Gstaad and Les Diablerets are situated in beautiful, high valleys. This area was the most spectacular I visited. I've added Les Diablerets to the list of places I'd like to spend a year studying French.
I pedalled through Spiez, Interlaken, Luzern on my way to Z?rich where I saw Andreas for the first time since he and Brigitte drove out of Annecy in their Mobility car two years ago. Julie and I met and Andreas and Brigitte cycle-touring in Utah in 1999. It was great fun to see him again.
I spent a few hours cycling around Z?rich on Friday. This city must have the best cycling facilities of anywhere I've ridden: lots of sign for bikes, lots of bike lanes, off-street bike paths, signals specifically for bikes, and lots of bikes. Yellow lines on the roads are for bikes; white lines are for cars. Bikes can pull up in front of cars, pick their lane (for a left turn, e.g.) and often leave before the cars on their own signal. When I gushed about the facilities, savy Swiss folks asked me if I'd been to Basel. The bike facilities there are supposed to be even better than in Z?rich. Real savy folks asked me if I'd ridden in Copenhagen, better than Basel apparently. Oh, I must go there and pedal!
Andreas and I pedalled together through the Mitteland for two days. We parted at some dot on the map called Buttisholz, and I continued on to Bern to catch the train to Lausanne for the conference. The conference went by quickly as expected. I learned a lot and realize there's a lot more to learn. GIS is becoming much more integrated in mainstream IT, mostly for the better. Ah, that's another story. Back home I gave a short presentation at work about the conference, but we need a more focused plan forward. Ugh, that job falls on my shoulders.
After raining in the morning it was sunny when I left Pascal's house on Friday afternoon. Quickly I realized I was pedalling toward a dark storm. It was storming over Geneva so I dawdled during an extended late second lunch in Morges. The following day I had a great sunny day for my last day of cycling. On the whole I had exceptionally hot and sunny weather for September. I suppose my swim in Lac L?man with Isabelle could be considered the official end of the summer.
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This is what got my fetish started in 1970! Seeing this chrome plated gas pedal being pressed down with a pointy pair of stiletto pumps with kidskin leather was all to much for me! How I would love to see this lady in boots furiously pumping this gas pedal and seeing the creasing in the leather would probably give me a heart attack! This is my fetish!!
This is the southernmost of three huge monoliths erected nearly 5,000 years ago at what is now known as Boroughbridge in North Yorkshire. Historical records suggest that several centuries ago there were five such stones in a line, now only three stones remain, but standing nearly 7m tall, they should be around for another couple of millenia. I was surprised to find that this ancient monument had been defiled some years ago by the Ordnance Survey people as this Devils Arrow carries the arrow of an O.S. benchmark.
Set Stills for "Weird Al" Yankovic's music video "Perform This Way", all photos copyright Robyn Von Swank 2011, www.vonswank.com
This Rally was 50th Pohjola Rally event held in Oulu Finland. The first Pohjola Rally was held in the year 1961.
Todays Rally was two day event with seven special stages. These photos are taken from legendary stage called Putkonen. The total length of this rally was 7 stages in total of 104km.
This Rally featured six classes:
Historic, Rally Trophy, BMW Xtreme, Open Class , A-jr and B-jr.
This is an original pinhead bust from Hellraiser, probably used for continuity of makeup or lighting etc...
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide.
No escape from reality.
Open your eyes,
Look up to the skies and see.
--- "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Freddie Mercury of Queen
This shot is long overdue. I've been getting distracted by other minifigs. So tonight I finally took a portrait of the Joker.
I have another version of this shot where the lighting isn't so bright. But I just really liked something about this brighter shot. I may post the other version another time though.
This shot is dedicated to the Delhi Rape Protests and hope the coming new year would be a women-friendly, safe new year for India.
One of my library moms is remodeling, and needed to get rid of a couch to make room for a new baby. She asked my boss and I if we knew anyone who would want a Victorian Couch (for free) and we both started salivating. My boss didn't have room for it, so my dad came out and helped me acquire it today :-D
Oh man! I'm looking forward to photo shoots with this thing! :-D All SORTS of photo shoots with this thing ;-D
This is my cat. This was taken by using an overhead florescent light, thats it. Let me know what you guys think!
This stellated rombicosidodecahedron is made with 240 knotted strips folded with equilateral triangles. Each strip is of 30 triangles plus some else to be traslaped.
This was the first moose hunting I've ever participated in, and now that was very exciting! This is a "cow", aged appx 2,5 yrs.
This is the David-copy that stands outside the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. This the original location of the original, but for preservation purposes the original was moved inside a specially-built hall in the Accademia in 1873.
To me this version seems less stunning and wonderful than the original in the Accademia. I don't know if it's the setting or that the copy really is subtly different. (But I doubt it's that: in the Accademia bookstore I saw an entire volume dedicated to the science of maintaining the David, including descriptions of the 3D computer models they have of the statue. Speaking of which, it's too bad the trashy-souvenir sellers don't have copies of those 3D models -- some of the cheesy David souvenirs looked unbelievably lame.)
But back to the main point: You can't take photos inside the Accademia, so here is La-La with the David that stands outside Palazzo Vecchio.
This one is very hard to explain, but it had me laughing my ass off. Good times.
Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
This year has been the first time that I've grown tomatoes in the actual ground. These are persimmon heirlooms.
This is seen at the sixth annual car show, organized by the Knights of Columbus, and held at Central Catholic School, in Lafayette, Indiana, July 9th, 2016. This year the car show was held on the grass, under trees, in front of the school, instead of in the parking lot. It was also held in the evening, instead of in the afternoon heat.
Damian made this amazing paper mache mask. He wore it while we gave tricks and treats to the kiddies.