Al getting ready to surf fish

A holiday added onto the end of a work visit allowed us to visit Callanais Stones, Arnol Blackhouses and Gearannan Blackhouse Village. Returning on the ferry from Tarbert also gave us chance to visit the Isle of Harris Distillery - quite impressive all round trip!

Sunset in Rodanthe, NC

Outer Banks, NC

Peregrine Falcon

Calender 2016

A week on the Outer Hebrides, August 2017

WHY

roadside farmer's market

The peat fire was never allowed to go out.

◆OUTER　¥15,750→¥9,950(税込)【STUDIOUS】

◆PANTS　¥19,950→¥12,600(税込)【Vinly】

this is the plce I used to hang out when I was like 12 and 13 to play magic and chess and stuff.

The outer layer of a pineapple, close up

Nijo Castle 二条城

Nijo Castle was completed in 1603.

Tokugawa Ieyasu who was the first generals of the Tokugawa shogunate built this castle.

In October 1967, Yoshinobu Tokugawa, the 15th generation general,

announced the transfer of power back to the Emperor to each Daimyo at Ninomaru Goten in Nijo Castle.

二条城

www2.city.kyoto.lg.jp/bunshi/nijojo/

Nijo Castle

www.mustlovejapan.com/subject/nijo_castle/

Nijo Castle Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nij%C5%8D_Castle

Jockeys Ridge State Park Sunset

The Callanish (Calanais) Standing Stones were set in place about 5,000. Like Stonehenge, they probably served a calendar function for planting crops, but no one really knows.

I took this yesterday at the Outer Harbor. I really like the view from this particular spot, even though of necessity I had to capture the image from the wrong side of a chain link fence (which you can see toward the bottom). I'm a week or two behind in my photo editing, but I still felt like sharing this. My actual edit of the RAW file is forthcoming!

Laughing Gull

Larus atricilla