View to the south from the slopes of Lower Pilot Knob - Hercules Glades Wilderness.
2024 Favorites
My favorite pictures and posts from 2024.
Eleven Point River view from my campsite — looking north — I camped about half a mile from here back in March 2023. I thought this location might offer better views. It did.
Day Three — First Light, Irish Wilderness — The pre-dawn light got me out of bed to enjoy the sunrise.
Piney Creek Wilderness at Table Rock Lake — Yup, another picture of one of my favorite spots.
Reflections in the pool below the shut-ins.
Long way down.
Finally, the sun reaches inside my hammock.
Morning Coffee, camped off of the Big Piney Trail.
Pre-Eclipse Shenanigans — Lanie & Ginger — 2024 Total Solar Eclipse. Notice how the light in the background is already fading.
2024 Total Eclipse — Not too bad for crop of a hand-held picture taken with a seven-year-old mirrorless camera, using the kit lens.
Upon Reflection — I grabbed the camera after the play of light on the bathroom mirrors caught my attention. To quote Ginger, "It's a very Gary photograph."
Morning tea on an old stool — At some point in life, we learn the value of eschewing the bright, shiny, and new for the well-worn, used, and patinaed that does its job, and does it well enough.
Journals and Ink — Four journals, four pens, one pencil, and three bottles of ink. I felt the need to take a picture, and this is what I came up with.
Ginger watching the dawn at 30,000 feet. We are off on the first leg of a visit to the UK. Our first since 2019.
To all appearances, we might still be flying — Good flights, an excellent connection, and we zipped through border control in the UK in minutes. Down in Baggage Reclaim our bags were first on the carousel, and our hotel was just a short (inside) walk from Heathrow T3 Arrivals.
Our room at St. Benedict's B&B — What an absolute gem this B&B was. We stumbled upon it quite by accident, and it was wonderful. +1
Folkestone beach and habour wall — Ginger captured this excellent view of the beach and harbour wall. The next morning I had a great run here, from the hotel, through the back streets and passages down to the harbour, out along the wall. Then back along the beach and sea front ending with the 200 ft climb back to the hotel.
Dover Harbour and Ferry Port — Seen from the White Cliffs of Dover.
Flickr meet-up — We first met Jacqi in person in 2008 at Bletchley Park in the UK. Then again in Springfield, Missouri as she traveled to her new home in New Zealand in 2011.
Morning run at Grange-over-Sands — From the Netherwood Hotel along the entire length of the promenade and back was just over two and-a-half miles. Just right for my morning run. +1
Morning run at Grange-over-Sands — the return leg, with the railway station caught in a shaft of sunlight.
Lounge — Netherwood Hotel & Spa. I liked the light, colors, and ambiance of this room.
Curtain — Netherwood Hotel & Spa. taken for no other reason than I liked the texture and the light.
Blue Bowl, Blanket Box, and Crocs — I was passing through the 'Sparkle Zone' when I noticed the light on the bowl, blanket box, and Crocs. The latter, with their color popping.