20100317

North Slope Trip




























The Yukon River . . .
















Toward the Arctic












Musk Ox












Caribou












I'm ready for my closeup . . .











Toward the pipeline . . .










Arctic Red Fox











Process piping . . .









my jungle gym . . .










Heavy equipment











Radar dome in Deadhorse






Endicott Island summer/winter
















Musk Ox















Curious cubs . . .


















The Alaska Pipeline












Share the road . . .












Arctic Red Fox . . .













North slope tundra . . .










Modular facilities . . .














Arctic Fox














Hi there . . .












drill rig . . .













caribou















Mt. Readoubt . . . erupting . . .

20100316

more London . . .

Westminster Abbey . . .

















Wandered down to the Thames . . . looking toward London . . .












The London Eye . . .















Big Ben . . .













The St. Paddy's Day Parade down off Picadilly . . .
















Saw the guards at several locations . . .

















Buckingham Palace . . .





























Um, what was the name of this Arch . . .

20100315

Where was I . . . round pond outside of Kennsington Palace . . . many swans . . .
















Kennsington Palace . . . from the back side . . .





















The Albert Memorial . . . across from Royal Albert Hall!



Royal Albert Hall . . .











Marble Arch . . .

and Then there is this . . . interesting . . .













Still working my way through my first day in London . . . I'll be back with more later . . .

20100314

Wecome to London! . . . What do you mean you can't turn off the alarm clock? . . . and the lifts aren't working? . . . hum, I wonder why? . . . oh, and they want us all to go stand out and enjoy the sunrise this morning! . . . hum, a clue . . .


Well I'm up, and the day is getting started . . . might as well make the most of it . . .

Now, how in the world do you know which one is yours? . . .













Ah, of course . . . each one has a different door knob! . . . well the numbers differ too, but . . . some of the door knobs are pretty distinctive!

On my way to Hyde Park, f rom Paddington Station . . . just took the London Express from Heathrow . . . lots of flat, rather featureless land along the rail route . . . predominantly industrial on one side, and housing on the other . . . all along the tracks . . .

Ah, once in Hyde Park . . . some interesting and fairly old trees! . . . spring is springing, but not quite there yet.















See . . . its trying to get colorful! . . .

Well, I'll be back . . . much more to come . . .