Early, low sun across Juanita bay on Lake Washington.

We drove the car onto a train  to be conveyed under the Simplon Pass, through a 19km tunnel completed in 1906.  I was expecting a passenge...

Yes, this is just a regional bank branch, facing the main square of Lugano. If all banks were as attractive, it might be more of a pleas...

Circling a ridge above the Liechtenstein capital, the Fürstenweg gives views over the Rhine for one section, pine forests for another, and...

The Swiss build some really nice infrastructure in very difficult terrain.  This is the western side of the Susten Pass, a 2260m saddle be...

The spectacular light gave way to heavy rain past the southern end of this valley, so our ambitious hiking plans needed an alternative.  W...

Above Laterbrunnen, there are numerous railways and gondolas going up into the mountains on either side of the valley.  This is at the Grü...

It was hot  the day we went picking strawberries, and there's no shade to be found in the middle of a strawberry field.  It was fort...

A small bay faces westward between Reservation Head and Lighthouse Point in Deception Pass State Park.  The walk around Lighthouse Point...

This young chickadee must have fallen out of the nest, as it was hopping around on the deck looking quite helpless.  I'm not sure ...

Looking northeast out from the edge of the Niagara Escarpment, in the Mt Nemo conservation area.

Red trillium grows on the banks of a Muskoka waterway.

This bog shows succession of the different grasses, mosses, and trees that compete for terrain along the meandering path of a stream in ...

Asparagus naturalizes easily in Eastern Canada. It is spectacular when steamed lightly a few moments after having been cut.

Princess Juliana of Holland was born in exile  in Canada during WWII, though the Ottawa Civic Hospital was deemed temporarily extraterrito...