It's on fire!!!

Well, no not really….just an artifact of HDR processing.

there be aliens in Albuquerque...

count the black dots :-)

If you look close you'll see lots of em :-)

Balloon Festival Albuquerque NM

Getting ready for takeoff

In a small field near Rio Rancho, NM.

Test using new google blogger app for iOS

Damage from earthquake

Speyer Cathedral

One of the largest cathedrals in Germany.





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Heidelberg

Successfully made it to Germany and settled in with my relatives. Visited Heidelberg castle today. Nice weather if a tad hot. Took some panoramic photos with photosynth. Enjoy :-)





This is looking from Heidelberg castle towards Heidelberg. Kind of hard to see the town, but you can see the weather was nice :-)






Abusing the panorama application...a section of Heidelberg castle.




Here a piece of a tower just fell off...

Some pictures from Yuma, AZ

Imperial Dunes in Southeastern CA. The southern part is difficult to get to without an ATV...so only one picture worthy of the blog...

Just some mountains east of the Imperial Dunes...my token autostitch photo :-)

The "Center of the World" in Felicity,CA. As recognized by Imperial County CA and the country of France. France? Center of the World? Really? A line from Field of Dreams comes to mind...If you build it they will come... And yes I know it's really "he" not "they"...

It's 10 minutes fast....it could be easily fixed....wouldn't take that much effort...

We already were getting the evil eye for not paying $3 to see the "Center of the World" so not sure if they would have understood the benefit of fixing their clock :-)

Look! It's a tree...

And finally, no this is not a Stairway to Heaven...but apparently a piece of stairway from the Eiffel tower....

Dayton Air Force museum

Cathedral Caverns take two

Went to Cathedral Caverns today for the second time. Still a very cool place. Only had the iphone 4 with me, so that's what you see below. First image is autostitched, the rest are raw HDR images without any post-processing. Not bad for a cell phone camera :-)

U.S.V.I.

Here are some pictures I didn't get a chance to post while on the boat.

The boat on the right was the one I was on. The one on the left, the "Allure of the Seas". You don't realize what big is until you're sitting next to that boat. 

Another view of "Allure of the Seas". One of the stories told on our ship by the crew was that this ship could only dock at three ports because of her size. 

Beach on the north side of the island.

Charlotte Amalie.

Didn't realize we had an office in the Caribbean...

Interesting post-sunrise picture...

Iguana that live on the rocks near where the boat docked. Everyone feeds them...which explains the belly...

Half Moon Cay in Bahamas

Finally had some nice weather on our last stop in the Bahamas. Did some parasailing and hung out at the beach. Water was cold, so didn't swim...mostly enjoyed the scenery...you can interpret that however you wish :-)

San Juan Puerto Rico