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Good Morning All,
Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!
Happy First of August, Swiss National Day. As a Swiss-American, I am blessed to be able to celebrate July 4th and Aug 1st, very similar celebrations of liberty and brotherhood. Delicious sausages, cheese, fruit, kirsch, and wine await!
If things work out, I’ll be wandering around some high-altitude Colorado next week in pursuit of the much-sought-after boletus edulis. A fresh “king bolete”, sliced, and sauteed in butter, is one of the finer things in life, and it’s been 5 years since I last dashed around 11-12,000 feet mountain sides for a few hours digging up such edible gold. Like I said, if things work out….
Today, pictures from valued commenter Steve in the ATL.
Work travel
Golden Gate Canyon State Park, Colorado
If I’m going somewhere good for a Monday meeting, I like to go in on Sunday and go hiking. There is no way for a photographer of my caliber to capture the majesty of the Rocky Mountains with an iPhone camera. This was a nice hike near Boulder, though.
Taken on 2017-12-05 00:00:00
Glendale, California
I was bargaining in Glendale and had dinner with Ruckus one evening. This was supposedly smoke from one of the wildfires burning then, but I suspect it was coming from BillinGlendaleCA’s apartment as he and Mnemosyne watched a Cheech and Chong movie and binged on Doritos.
Manchester, Tennessee
Couldn’t resist the rebel flag in front of the Walmart sign. You’ll be unsurprised to learn that the driver was an old white man.
Cleveland, Ohio
Normally above-ground pools are super nice. Not sure what happened to this one….
Alameda, California
Stumbling out of a college friend’s house on Saturday morning, I saw this a couple of doors down. Il pretty sure we didn’t do that, but we did drink a lot of wine the night before….
Thank you so much Steve in the ATL, do send us more when you can.
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eclare
Great variety of photos! That pool…
StringOnAStick
Golden Gate Canyon, one of my favorite state parks!
Steve in the Many Places, next time you’re in the Denver area try Staunton State Park, really nice new(ish) state park. Basically due West of Denver so a bit South of Golden Gate
tokyokie
If it’s Swiss National Day, then I’ll have to wear a Swiss National Team jersey. But should I wear the home or away kit? (Helvetia is one of the football teams I support, partly because I went to school for a year there, and partly because key members of the squad are the sons of refugees from the dissolution of Yugoslavia and therefore their success pisses off the Russkies.)
Baud
I like that they’re organized in descending order of classiness.
JPL
@Baud: tee hee hee
Steve’s photographic skills are better than Cole’s, but he has a way to go before he achieves Bill status.
raven
That’s some goofy shit.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: From a goofy guy.
J R in WV
V. High level of Goofiness – great job.
Thanks, Steve. Hope your wife is doing better!
debbie
That is so, so Cleveland!
Sab
@debbie: Once you let pool maintenance get of hand you really don’t want to drain it into your driveway.
Amir Khalid
That pool is cetainly full of, um, green tea.
Sab
In the pool owners defense, this was one of the wettest springs on record in Cleveland. They probably mostly drained it last fall, and this is what happened.
HinTN
SteveintheATL@top – Manchester, TN … Dude, you were right next door. Coming back? (I know, “Not if I can help it!”) Get someone on the FP to get you my contact info.
ETA – We have plenty of young white men with the same affliction.
chris
Steve in all the best places! What is the other flag with only seven stars? Anyone?
Sab
@chris: That is the actual Confederate flag. The one we think of as the Confederate flag (with the saltire) is their battle flag.
MobiusKlein
Coincidentally, I’m leaving for Switzerland today, but I can’t manage to spell it right without auto-correct. Ah well, I still have time before the flight leaves.
Steve in the ATL
@StringOnAStick: will do. There are so many great places to hike around Denver!
Steve in the ATL
@HinTN: I was in Kimball last month, but not sure when I’ll be any closer to you than Chattannoga.
BTW, we were at Cotton Row in Huntsville. Were you referring to the Bottle?
Steve in the ATL
@JPL: there’s a lot of room between Cole and Bill…
chris
@Sab: Thanks. But doesn’t the real flag have thirteen stars?
Steve in the ATL
@J R in WV: thanks—she’s making slow progress, but at least there’s progress
@raven: @OzarkHillbilly: i yam what i yam
Steve in the ATL
@chris: yes. This appears to be the Confederate Navy Ensign which was used from 1861–1863. Maybe the racist old white man was a USN vet?
Yarrow
This has to be one of my favorite collections of On The Road photos in a long time. That green pool is perfection. Travel always sounds so glamorous. Your photos are definitely grounded in reality.
Steve in the ATL
@Yarrow: you are my new favorite poster.
chris
@Steve in the ATL: Thanks, Steve.
More here because of course confederateflags.org exists!
ETA: Scroll down.
Steve in the ATL
@chris: you mock, but that’s going to be important information when the South rises agin!
chris
@Steve in the ATL: And the South will surely rise again! On the sea level rise brought on by climate change.
Mel
Love these photos!
That’s not a pool, though – that’s a science project gone terribly awry. Residents of that street need to prepare for the imminent arrival of Swamp Thing (and I don’t mean the bloated, orange kind!).
Eljai
I enjoyed this travelogue! Seeing that car in Alameda reminds me of the time I returned to the parking lot to find that someone had carved a Jesus fish on the side door of my station wagon. I guess it could’ve been worse.
Steve in the ATL
@Eljai: the Alameda photo was actually taken the day before the SF meet up at the Thirsty Bear
HinTN
@Steve in the ATL: Cotton Row is the place I had in mind. Still excellent?
The Lookouts are always a great place to hang on a summer evening. We’re going on Saturday, 24 August. Probably leave before the fireworks.
Steve in the ATL
@HinTN: it was fantastic. Good French wine, fresh seafood. Even the terrible sounding desserts (phyllo PB&J, feta ice cream) were delicious. The only thing I didn’t love was the port served with dessert, but that’s ok because it was compliments of the chef.
Sab
Cleveland suburb (Brookpark?) :Drain the swamp!
Steve in the ATL
@Sab: outside the Marriott near the airport
I told the hotel manager that with my Marriott platinum status I expected a better view!
Sab
@Steve in the ATL: Spouse and I argued about this on morning dogwalk. (Neither of us are morning people, so both cranky, we argue a lot.)
I said no way is this Cleveland. Taken landing at airport. He said impossible to get such a good shot from an airplane. THEN he said must be taken from a drone.
ETA hotel window. How did neither of us geniuses figurw that out.
I said : he’s a management lawyer at work. Who the phuck takes a drone on a business trip. He said: obviously he did.
I said, if your mother loved you so much why did she drop you on your head in infancy and damage your brain.
Steve in the ATL
@Sab: ha!
If I’d had a drone, I’d have fired a missile at that pool
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steve in the ATL: I see they put you up at the Hilton, nice place; but you can’t see my place from there(The Cave is in the other direction).