On The Road

First, from BillinGlendaleCA

Where it was taken: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, CA
When: March 6, 2017
Other notes or info about the picture:  This is a model of downtown Los Angeles in the late 1930’s.  It was a depression era WPA project to assist the city in urban renewal(they ended up clearing the upper left portion of the city(Bunker Hill) in the 50’s and 60’).  The model was apparently much larger but parts were destroyed.  This view is from the southwest, looking northeast; the streets in downtown LA are laid out in Spanish colonial style as opposed to the north/south axis you see in most American cities.

Wow. Thank you! I can’t wait to see more of your work. I know you post links here and there, you can just do that and I’ll grab them from online and save you the bother.

That goes for anyone out there, you can send a link if you have the picture  online already. I don’t mean to make the process difficult for anyone, and I know that sending a link to a full-size picture is easier than sending the picture via email, so please send it as you wish and I’ll work with it.

Next up, from bilger:

Where it was taken: Vieux Habitants, Base Terre, Guadeloupe
When: 3-8-’17
Other notes or info about the picture: Been wandering around this island for a couple months. This place is amazing.

Just beautiful. Given the upcoming storm,  I wish I could frolic in that stream!

Next up, from lurker Vicki Delany, something notable:

Flight over Mount Everest. March 8, 2017.

Wow, the roof of the world! I’ve seen many of the world’s great mountain chains, some of the great mountains, but that’s…just…wow! Travel safely – I hope you send more pictures from your travel(s)!

And finally for this pre-storm Monday morning, from otmar:

Where it was taken: Vienna University Observatory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Observatory
When: Friday night
Other notes or info about the picture: The Vienna Observatory runs a series of monthly lectures for the general public. This Friday, my sister spoke about the hunt for exoplanets. Afterwards we visited the grand refractor, which was the largest telescope of its kind back in 1878.

What an amazing looking piece of history! When I was a kid in school, we were lucky enough to be invited to the US Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. a few nights for observations, but I don’t remember it looking so neat. Thanks, Otmar – and please, send more!

And that goes for all of you out there, throughout the world. We know there are readers, so if you’re travelling or just living overseas or somewhere “different”, send a picture or two. I know I speak for many readers who love to see what you see.

First, from otmar’s trip to Malta:

Where it was taken: La Valetta, Malta
When: 2 weeks ago

Other notes or info about the picture: Here are some pics about the trip he mentioned in a previous thread, where he wrote:

As I type this I am sitting at the gate of Malta airport, waiting for the plane back to Vienna. I spent the last two days at a meeting organised by the presidency of the EU, which is held by Malta.

Fun days. Valletta is definitely worth a visit, the fortifications and the churches are impressive.

Exquisite!

And now, from Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

Where – Great Wall, with Mrs Dantes
When – October 2016

Where- Summer Palace, Beijing
When -10/16

And now, off to Italy (still same commenter)

Where-Monterosso, Cinque Terre, Italy
When-5/16

Where: Our Balcony, Monterosso, Cinque Terre, Italy
When: 5/16

Where – Siena, Italy
When -5/16

Where – Don Ernestos, Puerto Morelos, Quintano Roo, Mexico
When – 9/16

And one more continental shift!
Where: New Orleans
When: 4/1

Finally, some more from quinerly:

Where it was taken: When: Commenter nym: Other notes or info about the picture:
Poco at Lone Rock Beach, Utah (Lake Powell) on Sunday. As I understand it, it’s the only beach you can drive on and camp on on Lake Powell. We drove right down to the water and scoped it out for another trip.

Third picture is of a tree that Poco tried to sneak up on to pee on in Bryce Canyon NP. I snapped the picture just as it tried to run away.?

First, a great picture. I used to recreate right behind(and used to cut through the property occasionally!) where ENIAC was created, right near American University in Washington, D.C. I think I was the only person in  that group who knew some important computer history had happened just a few feet from where we were. Seeing this inside view of such an important part of the evolution of our technology is so utterly cool!

Where it was taken: Outside Boelter Hall 3420, ULCA, Los Angeles, CA
When: March 6, 2017
Commenter nym: BillinGlendaleCA
Other notes or info about the picture: This is the room where the first message was sent on the Internet in 1969.  The refrigerator sized box was one of the first routers built.

Birthplace of the Internet.

And next from evap

Where it was taken: Aachen, Germany
When: March 4, 2017
Other notes or info about the picture: The first picture is a detail inside the Rathaus (town hall) in Aachen, Germany.  It was Charlemagne’s palace back in the day.

Where: Oberwolfach, Germany
When: March 6, 2017
Other notes:  The second picture was taken from the top of a hill near the conference center where I am staying, in the Black Forest region in Germany. The closed medium-sized town is Strassburg.It’s been cold and rainy all the time, so the picture is a bit gloomy.

I suspect that, come late summer, those forested hillsides are filled with delicious mushrooms just ripe for the picking!

Thanks evap, travel safely!

And, from wataguy

Where it was taken: Taipei airport
When: 0740 8 March
Other notes or info about the picture: On my way to Cambodia. That’s not me in the picture.

Can’t wait to see some pictures from your trip!

And finally for today, from frosty (and yes, lots more coming tomorrow!):

We were on the road for a month and I’ve got lots of photos of beaches, bikes, and critters, but these are from the most amazing thing we saw.
This was from one of the Ringling Museums in Sarasota. It’s a 3,800 SF model of the circus from the 1920’s. I was a model maker in my youth (ships in bottles) and I can’t believe the detail that went into it. The guy who made it, Howard Tibbals, started in 1963 and he says he’s not done yet.
I didn’t get pictures of the 55 flatcars, hundreds of circus wagons and horses and everything else he modeled. The crowning touch is that the whole model can be put away in the wagons and flatcars, just like the real thing. Holy cow!!!
The pictures are an overview from the second floor balcony(5th), then a wide shot and close up of the big top(1st and 2nd) and commissary (3rd and 4th). Then finally the one every model maker has to model:  The dog looking at a hydrant (6th).

Hope you like them! It’s not Poco, but at least there’s a dog!

— frosty

Neat! Sometime I’ll have to post some pictures I took of models in a Japanese hotel. Quite amazing work – great photos – thanks for sharing!

First, from planetjanet:

Where it was taken: Dubrovnik, Croatia
When: March 4, 2017
Other notes or info about the picture: Fortress Lovrijenac, also known as Blackwater Bay in Game of Thrones.

I am a on a business trip to Dubrovnik, also known as Kings Landing. They are actively filming “Game of Thrones” here. I have one picture attached of them filming one scene.

And now..some pics from BellyCat and kitten!

Pokhara, Nepal. March 4 2017. Balloon juice lurker Vicki Delany (right)

Thank you, and travel safely!  And send more! :)

Next, from my birth country under the Southern Cross, Skippy-san offers some joy:

Cape Town South Africa  Hout’s Bay just below the Chapman’s peak scenic drive, 28 Feb 2017
This is part of a series of pictures I can send showing the Western Side of the Cape Peninsula.

Please, do send more!

And now some from planetjanet

Where it was taken: Dubrovnik, Croatia

When: March 4, 2017

Other notes or info about the picture: 1st picture is of the port.  At the right you can see wooden structures along the shore that are actually part of a set for Game of Thrones.  They are actively filming today.2nd picture is a tower on the city walls, also tge House of the Undying.3rd picture is of the set described earlier looking at the port.

Many more fantastic pictures from planetjanet tomorrow!

And one last set to start the week out right from Quinerly and Poco.

Pics shown in order that I downloaded then uploaded them, so any error of sequence is mine!