Barcelona

So yes, my trip to Barcelona was well over a month ago and the only pictures anyone has ever seen are the two pictures of the week here on the blog.  Time to change that...but this will take a little while.

Pictures.

A flower pot, Gaudi style.  All that glass is from old bottles and the like.

Chandelier...also in Gaudi style.

Swirly roof and chandelier.  Also in the same building by Gaudi as the two previous pictures.

This was part of a really cool stair column.  The tiles faded to a darker blue the higher you went up so that when you look up at the skylight at the top of the column all the tiles appear the same colour.  Didn't work perfectly but it was cool all the same.

The roof of the building.  It has been said to look like a dragon's back with a lance through it, representing the legend of Sir George and the Dragon (wait...was it St. George...?)

The front of the building on the right; on the left is another building by a different but just as, er, original as Gaudi.

This peacock was one of many strutting about at the zoo in Barcelona.  I had it trapped on a balcony for pictures...at least I thought I did until it actually flew down.

More Gaudi (can you sense a theme here?)

Monserrat, just north of Barcelona.  AMAZING views from the mountain.

More shots of the monastery at Monserrat...my picture of the week for week 27.

How did I get this shot of an empty floor in a major tourist attraction?  PATIENCE!  That and taking pictures of everything else while keeping an eye on the floor for an opportunity (I didn't sit there with my camera pointed this way just waiting. :-P)

More views from the hike along one of the trails in Monserrat.  Unfortunately my parents were intent on getting back ASAP so I had to snap pictures really fast and run to catch up.

A building on the hike.

Another shot of the mountain.

This covers about a day and a half of the trip. I'm not sure if I should be inserting a :-/ smiley or a :-P smiley here.  I'll post more later (like I said this will take a little while).

Week 27

After much heeing and hawing I've chosen this one as my picture of the week.  Hopefully at some time in the near future I'll put up more from our trip to Barcelona (at which time there will probably be comments such as "What on earth possessed you that you didn't pick THIS picture???") but that also may be a little while away.

This picture was taken in Monserrat just north of Barcelona.  This is at around 700 metres up, or around 2300 feet (roughly).

Week 27 (June 27 2010) "Monserrat Monastery" 

Week 33

So here's Week 33.  Since I'm now coaching sailing from 8:30-12 and sailing from 1-4 every day (I get home at about 5) I haven't been spending much time with my camera...thus, a grainy, high ISO macro of Mah-Jongg tiles.  The title came to me after the shot...it wasn't set up for the title, I promise.  Just to explain, the tile furthest left is a "season" or bonus tile; the number 2 means it is player two's tile (south)...if they get it they get to double their score.  The other three are fours of Wan...one of the suits in Mah-Jongg.

Week 33 (August 14, 2010) "One two and three fours"

I now have my aunt's shot.  I assume this is called "Propeller"

Just because I can....

Picture for Week 32.  All the other weeks will take a while to pick, so I figured while the picking is easy I may as well post it.  Guess what it's called....

Also, as my aunt and uncle are also doing this I'm going to start putting up their weekly shots in the weekly pic post.

Week 32 (August 7 2010) "Chandelier" 

Uncle Glenn's Picture (untitled as of yet) 

Aunt Deanne's Picture

(she's away for now, so I don't have her picture for this week) 

Week 26

Well I've chosen my shot for week 26.  Finally.  The jury is still out on 27.

Week 26 (June 25 2010) "Catalan Tower"

Weeks 21-25

I got stuck on week 26.  That was when we were in Barcelona, so it may be a little while before I can go through my couple thousand pictures (that's not an exaggeration) and pick just two for the two "weeks" we were there (half of one week and most of another).  So I figured I should just put up weeks 21-25 now.

Week 21 (May 20 2010) "Longtail"

Week 22 (May 24 2010) "Eye of the Storm"

Week 23 (June 2 2010) "Washington Monument"

Week 24 (June 12 2010) "T-Ball Slugger"

Week 25 (June 19 2010) "Water Ball"*

*Yes, a little last second desperation on my part.  That ball is supposed to bounce on water.

Pictures of the Week(s)

I started this thing at the beginning of this year with my aunt and uncle which entails taking at least one picture a week and putting all these weekly shots together in one place.  Recently, I've fallen down on the job of keeping them organized so my aunt and uncle have subsequently been hounding me to get my act together and organize them/email them to them (since we're in this together we email each other the pictures).  So now I'm uploading weeks 1-20 on here in this post and then weeks 20-30ish (I don't know exactly which week we're on) once I get them organized.

Warning: Some of them are not in any way, shape, or form, any good. ;-)

The date is the date the shot was taken, if that's not obvious. ;-)

Week 1 (Jan 1, 2010) "A New Year Dawns"

Week 2 (Jan 8 2010) "The Final Ornament"

Week 3 (Jan 16 2010) "Layered Path"

Week 4 (Jan 17 2010) "75th Birthday"

Week 5 (Jan 30 2010) "Ruffled Water"

Week 6 (Feb 6 2010) "End of the Line"

Week 7 (Feb 10 2010) "Snow Dive"

Week 8 (Feb 14 2010) "Snap, Crackle, and Pop"

Week 9 (Feb 27 2010) "Kiskadee"

Week 10 (Mar 6 2010) "Pre-Game Warm-Ups"

Week 11 (Mar 13 2010) "Customer Lists"

Week 12 (Mar 20 2010) "Candlelight?"

Week 13 (Mar 27 2010) "Loquats"

Week 14 (Apr 2 2010) "Before and After"*

Week 15 (Apr 8 2010) "Rocky Shore"

Week 16 (Apr 13 2010) "Longtail"

Week 17 (Apr 18 2010) "Retreating Tide"

Week 18 (May 1 2010) "Reading Light"

Week 19 (May 4 2010) "Milkweed Blossoms"

Week 20 (May 9 2010) "Symmetry"

*My kite for Good Friday, before and after trying to fly it.  It never did get up.  The picture doesn't show the damage very well.  It was a lot worse off than it looks.

The Canadian Rockies (cont.)

Here are some more.  With all the hecticness going on with traveling back home (and at 3 am to boot) I haven't been able to update this like I would have wanted to.  Also, transfering my pictures to my desktop has hit a bit of an obstacle as I have a mere 500 MB of space left.

But all that aside, the pictures.

7200 ft up.

The ascent. That building on the right is at 7200 ft.  The air was so thin it made something as simple as walking up the slope quite difficult.  Probably comes in part from living in a country with a maximum elevation of 249 ft.

A mountain.  We saw so many I haven't the slightest clue as to what this one is called.

Like the mountains we saw so many falls that I can't remember the name of these ones (this one?).

The same falls.

The toe of the glacier coming off the Columbian Ice Fields.  As is probably evident this was taken while standing on it.  The whole thing was pretty cool (no pun intended) aside from managing to step into a hole with a thin layer of ice over it, succesfully soaking my shoe and a good deal of my jeans.

A glacier viewable from the one we were on.  It has a name but I don't remember what it is.

That way to the ice fields.  We couldn't go there as there are gaps in the ice where it goes over the ridge that are larger than the bus we were in.

Mountains next to the ice fields.

Once again, more to come at later.