bythehandofbobThis #urbansketching from today is hopefully a better/clearer attempt to represent the magical asphalt space between the mega-coffee, mega-grocery and kick-boxing/cycle franchise. I think it's clearer than yesterday.
Peter McDonald
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5th generation Bay Area'ite. Dad. Husband. Engineer. Daily SFBike commuter and bike tourist when I can get away. Semi-regular OSM contributor.
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Adrian HonRIP to a real one.
The Soul of a New Machine may be the best technology book written, but House was a beautifully-crafted and deeply humanist book. Funny too!
Catherine Babault
Just realized that March 23 is #WorldBearDay A bit late to the party but some of you probably know that they are one of my favourite subjects to photograph. I have a page in my portfolio dedicated to black bears: https://www.catherinebabault.com/black-bears-on-vancouver-island and another one for grizzly bears: https://www.catherinebabault.com/grizzly-bears-on-vancouver-island
Here's a photo of a beautiful black bear during the salmon run on Vancouver Island.
@anji @stacey_campbell I've had field work to do in Santa Cruz often in the last 15+ years. After being caught in multiple unexpected shutdowns on 17 I resolved to exclusively drive on the coast from SF to SC and back. On a good day for 17 it takes an extra 15-20 minutes but I arrive back in SF in a zenlike state having taken in 75 miles of extraordinary coastline. On a bad day for 17, I save an hour+ and still get to keep the zen state. It doesn't hurt that I have ferreted out a whole range of places to stop along the way to pick up something only sold along that stretch of 1 (starting with Olallieberry pie).
Curiosity Drive 🚐[1/3] Ruta del Cares. With a fresh overnight dusting of snow on the peaks we set out to hike an out-&-back section of the 12km point-to-point Ruta del Cares (PR-PNPE 3) trail in Parque Nacional de los Picos de Europa. This is the park’s most popular hike, linking Poncebos (Asturias) & Caín (León); it’s considered one of Spain’s most beautiful trails. We 🅿️ at Poncebos & initial views of the clear-flowing Río Cares from near the trailhead looked promising (📷1); a short stretch of road led to a well-formed path. The trail climbs through a deep limestone gorge with sheer cliffs that tower above the river; erosion has created rock pillars (📷2) & natural arches (📷3)—but human engineering in this landscape also must be admired. Between 1915 & the early 1920s, the company Electra de Viesgo built a canal to carry water from the Río Cares at Caín to a hydroelectric plant at Camarmeña–Poncebos. Up to 11 km long, it runs through ~70 tunnels excavated largely by hand with the aid of explosives; 11 workers were killed during construction. The maintenance path for this canal, widened between 1945–50, became today’s Ruta del Cares: the canal still carries water alongside, above & beneath the trail (📷4).
🇪🇸#spain #asturias 🇪🇺#europe 🚀#travel 🚐 #camperVan #nomad #roadTrip #vanLife 🥾#hiking #nature #nationalPark
Biketouring Nearby
TamamiHere, take some flowers because tomorrow is Monday.
With this crazy weather, our cherry tree blossomed and left in less than a week, more than three weeks earlier compared to last year. For someone who look forward to the flower season all year, this makes me sad, especially I wasn't here most of the week...
#BloomScrolling #SundayFlowers #CherryBlossoms
A Bald eagle looking for herring as they spawn in eelgrass near the shore.
#photography #wildlife #nature #WildlifePhotography #VancouverIslandWildlife #BritishColumbia
