On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
Good Morning All,
So far, this feature has been about travel, with the occasional “local” picture or two. I think limiting this to just travel is just that – limiting. So I’m changing this up a bit to include neat, colorful, funny, interesting, poignant, etc. pictures that don’t require travel – for you!
As always, if you’re on a trip or have a story to share, you can just pitch in below. Please hold off sending new pictures as we’re in the final testing stages of a submission function to make this feature less error-prone and a bit more automated. I hope to have it live by week’s end, and have plenty of pics until then!
Final maintenance note – in order to best support both desktop and mobile users, and especially those using older systems, I’m launching a new plugin later today to show pictures. It will show one picture at a time, allow you to zoom in to a full-size version, and will work the same on both desktop and mobile sites. Once that’s in, there will be one or more galleries per submitter per day. Should be snaz-zy. Performance and functionality was less than ideal and it would have messed up the hard work we’ve done with the form. So for a while, we’re keeping the current serial display of pictures.
Travel safely everyone, even if it’s just down the hall for that second cup of coffee.
Evening Alain. Last batch for now (back home now in too warm California, but I’m headed to even warmer Cabo San Lucas in a couple weeks):
Where it was taken: Along road near Walchsee, Austria (Nordtirol)
When: 31 May 2017
Commenter nym: way2blue
Other notes or info about the picture: close-up photo of an amazing woven, stand-alone fence (i.e., no fence posts) made of split boards & slats, along the road that circles the lake
Where it was taken: Lautersee, Bavaria
When: 04 June 2017
Commenter nym: way2blue
Other notes or info about the picture: lake where we stayed a couple nights en route to Munich — in a nature park near Mittenwald, Germany with lots of hiking trails along with thundershowers…
Where it was taken: Sankt Maddalena, Südtirol
When: 18 May 2017
Commenter nym: way2blue
Other notes or info about the picture: spring time at a horse farm on the edge of town(couldn’t resist adding this one, since you like animals, although these aren’t particularly wild)…
Thanks for those wonderful shots!
From DCrefugee, a constant lurker, sometime commenter:
I just got back from two weeks in Paris, my first trip to France of any consequence. One week to myself, one for a client. It was good to be in a proper city for a change (home plate for me these days is not that far from Betty Cracker). I had time to check a few boxes on the list, including sipping wine and/or a great meal at a sidewalk cafe, walking through the city eating a jambon et fromage baguette, getting lost, learning the Metro, walking by the Seine and going to the top of the Eiffel Tower…that kind of thing.
Highlights included Jim Morrison’s grave, the Mona Lisa (the Louvre generally, but don’t use the main gate), and a Dali museum nestled next to Sacre Coeur.
Toward the end of the trip, it got hot — Florida hot — and the hotel’s small lobby was the only air-conditioned space. And it seemed the French passport control bureaucracy at de Gaulle was in a pique, leading to long lines and a lot of frayed nerves.
A fun trip, but I’m happy to be back. Some souvenirs:
Jim Morrison’s grave: Bad lighting, and I couldn’t get close enough, but that’s what it looks like.
Eiffel Tower:
Some guy with a dark beard and a blonde wig on the carousel below Sacre Coeur:
A screenshot from my phone:
The Mona Lisa:
A piece in the Dali museum. The flat surface is Dali’s take on a butterfly. In the center, a round mirror is mounted vertically. The reflection is a self-portrait of the artist:
A street scene:
Thanks so much for these great shots!
Well folks, not bad for a Wednesday! Have a great day, and we’ll see you tomorrow.
OzarkHillbilly
LOVE that fence, have not seen that before. Just too cool.
That perspective on the Eiffel really gives a good sense of it’s height.
That Dali!
raven
Good stuff!
?BillinGlendaleCA
Amazing how Di Vinci capture the look of people looking at his painting. An artist ahead of his time.
Sort of related to the final resting place of my fellow Bruin Jim Morrison…there’s a plan to restore the old Morrison Hotel in downtown LA where they shot the Morrison Hotel album cover. It looks pretty sad now(I went down at took some pics late last year). I guess they’re going to put a museum there.
raven
@?BillinGlendaleCA: You been to the Grammy Museum? It’s not huge but they had some cool stuff,
Jerzy Russian
@OzarkHillbilly: Yes, that is totally cool. I am not sure how you would start it. Presumably it takes several people, holding various ends of various boards. There must be a few secretly hidden posts that are driven in the ground.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: Nah, walked by it once.
OzarkHillbilly
@Jerzy Russian: I believe the thinner boards slanting to the right are driven into the ground. One way or another there has to be some kind of base to hold it all vertical, otherwise one good gust of wind would blow it over.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@OzarkHillbilly:
Those old split rail fences that you see in places like central and eastern Kentucky are remarkably functional. When you inspect them, there are posts and pegs (or nails) in only the ends and the corners, yet they do great at holding back everything from goats to bulls and are relatively simple to maintain.
maurinsky
Paris is my favorite place I’ve ever been, and I’ve only been there in the winter. I think the Musee D’Orsay was the museum I enjoyed the most.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
DCRefugee got a great shot of the Mona Lisa. My recollection was that there was a glare that I got so I never kept my photo of it.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@maurinsky:
When I went to Musee D’Orsay it was super crowded, but I still loved it.
rikyrah
Thanks for all the pictures.
I’m telling you… it’s impossible to take a bad picture of Paris??
Citizen Scientist
Wow, I want to go to Paris even more now.
On a side note, i currently have the pleasure of staying at the same hotel as the National teenage republicans leadership conference. I’ve only seen 4 MAGA hats so far.
Quinerly
???❤
OzarkHillbilly
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Yep, I have thought of putting some in on my place (for looks, not functionality) but am dissuaded by the amount of work.
On the “they do great at holding back everything from goats to bulls” Not so much with the goats. Most goats** would climb right over them. I’m thinking of raising goats here and the fencing has to be absolutely bomb proof to keep them in. 4″x4″ woven wire to 4′ high with a strand of electric at 5′, otherwise they would just jump over it.
*Depending on the breed, I know a guy with Nigerian dwarfs and his fencing is 3′ high and electrified. Myotonics are probably also reasonably easy to contain. But most other breeds are notorious for escaping and eating the neighbors petunias etc.
Steve in the ATL
@maurinsky:
Concur on both, and would kill for une crepe jambon oeuf fromage right now!
(Also, the Cluny is my least favorite museum in Paris)
NotMax
Those of us who eschew Javascript thank you, effusively.
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund DantesTore down and recycled a dilapidated, abandoned 19th century house (only 3 of the 4 exterior walls still intact) back when. The only nails in the entire two story structure were square head ones holding the vertical 16-foot siding (1½-ish × 10-ish) boards to the structural members. Most everything else was mortise and tenon. Recovered lots of 8 × 8 beams, among other stuff. Built a helluva outdoor deck with the recovered goodies, and had plenty left over.
Yoda Dog
Damn, that Dali is so wicked.
Great pictures everyone. Much thanks for sharing.
eclare
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I have to put my two cents in for the Rodin museum. Lots of pieces scattered all over the grounds, including The Thinker and The Gates of Hell. Yeah, the perspective of the Eiffel Tower photo is illuminating. Great photos!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@OzarkHillbilly:
I think they’re really attractive – I wish I had the patience to do something like that.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@NotMax:
Nice!
MomSense
Love the photos this morning. Oh Paris why are you so beautiful?
Barbara
I liked that Dali Museum — on Montmartre? It was a private undertaking but it was intimate and clearly a labor of love for whoever owns it. I have been to the Louvre, but my appreciation of the Mona Lisa was enhanced greatly by an exhibit that has been traveling around that was put together by the conservation department at the Louvre, which did an exhaustive analysis of the Mona Lisa, to see what it might have looked like when it was first painted, what is underneath it, etc. The exhibit also includes a bunch of machines that were built according to da Vinci designs, including — get this — a prototype for what we would call scuba gear. The exhibit is currently at the science museum in Richmond, Virginia through September 5, and it is worth a drive from D.C. or points beyond to see it.