This is the final image from this series, a shortcut to my home along a beautiful country road. As I said in my original post, many people drive by these various spots every day blind to the beauty around them. There are so many “pictures” I have taken that reside only in my mind. I am so glad I took the time to retrace my drive to work and back with a camera in hand. I hope these pictures have encouraged you to look for the beauty that lives just beyond those guard rails.

The lovely textures used in this series are thanks to the beautiful works of Anna Lenabem, Tito and Jai Johnson.

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Outside a monastery in Italy near the border to Switzerland

In order to be able to take this picture I had to fight my way across a huge crowd of tourists before and on the Marienbrücke and climb up the shortcut to this point of view on the other side.

I took this picture during the journey to my Bavarian and Swabian home I went on with my Chinese wife and my stepdaughter two years ago.

You'll find more pictures of this journey, also the picture I took like most tourists on the Marienbrücke, in the album.

HFF

Winter rains found their own way downhill, Riggs Canyon, Mt Diablo State Park, Blackhawk, Calif., April 2, 2017. Looking northeast at Sulphur Springs trail from Oyster Ridge trail. The rains ended a five-year drought.

Douglas County-Washington State

This is what some of the roads I travel look like in my search for abandonment.

artwork, Look out, Attention.

Early in the morning on Route 24 West in Colorado

This is the large transmission line with natural power produced by Norwegian waterfalls.

Tous les chemins mènent à Rome.

Il existe plusieurs manières d’atteindre un seul et même but, même si certaines peuvent être plus longues et complexes que d’autres.

Shortcut - under the Chicago "L" Red Line at Montrose and Sheridan.

Leopard (Panthera pardus), likely the "Flat Rock Male" born 2013. Londolozi Game Reserve, Sabi Sands, South Africa.

Conservation Status: Vulnerable

Budapest - Stairs

Waipu Cove, NZ.

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the shortest distance to china from here is through the earth and not over it. do you think that would cut ticket prices? what should i call this giant drill?

Lots of thorns here !

After reading the OS Maps, we climbed up a steep bank to be met

by this view.