January 2013
POTD: Practicing Your French
The Fashion Queen arriving to meet me at the little French cafe in Bozeman. We’re headed to Paris in a few months and this is a good way to get ready for that trip. At least it’s good in terms of practicing eating French food; I’m afraid our almost non-existent French language skills aren’t going to improve much just by drinking tea and eating eclairs, however authentic they are.]]>
POTD: Colonies and Rafts
What’s louder than the surf crashing on the rocks? Sea lions lounging on and near the shore. While stopped at an overlook taking in the far view, the sound of this colony and pod drew me to the edge to look down. (A group of sea lions on the shore is called a colony; floating on the water they are called a raft–or so I read.)]]>
POTD: The Forest of Fangorn
I just saw the movie The Hobbit yesterday and this trail connects into the Hobbit Trail to Hobbit Beach, so the name for this photo came to mind quite naturally. (Well, in the interest of full disclosure, I didn’t actually think of the name Fangorn directly; I’m not enough of a Tolkien fanatic to remember that detail from the books. It was his Ent character named Treebeard who came to mind, but when I looked him up on the internet it indicated the Ents lived in the Forest of Fangorn.)]]>
POTD: Coastal Compulsory
You can’t hardly visit a rocky coast without photographing a lighthouse; in fact I think it’s required. 🙂 The Heceta Head lighthouse was the only one we got up close to on this trip and access to it was difficult due to renovations that had it fenced off. So all I got was this rather standard view of it, which I post because, like I said, I think it’s required.]]>