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Hootananny

Hootananny
“Hootananny” — A woman at the door of Hootananny, a music venue and restaurant in Inverness, Scotland.

Since the previous photograph I shared came from the last day of our Great Glen Way trek in Scotland, it seems appropriate to follow it with a photograph from our first full day back in “civilization” in Inveness. (To be honest, while the Great Glen Way walk is an outdoor experience, it is pretty civilized, too, as I have written in previous posts.) Our itinerary for this day would involve a train trip from Inverness to Glasgow, but we had several hours of free time in the morning. So we stashed our luggage at the train station and went out for a walk. Along the way we passed this venue, which is apparently a center for performances of Scottish music.

We really were not in Inveness long enough to fully experience the place. We had thought of it mainly as a place to end our walk and sleep one night before heading on to the rest of our trip — but after being there I realized that it would have warranted a longer stay. We did enjoy our morning walk around the compact center of the town in the area near the railway station.


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Colchester Billiards & Snooker Club

Colchester Billiards & Snooker Club
A few people stand outside the Colchester Billiards and Snooker Club along a narrow curving street

Colchester Billiards & Snooker Club. Colchester, England. August 4, 2016. © Copyright 2016 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A few people stand outside the Colchester Billiards and Snooker Club along a narrow curving street

During our lengthy travels (five weeks on the road!) this past summer we spent a bit more than a week in London. While most of our plans were in London, we decided to get out into the country at least once on this trip. So, more or less on a whim, we decided to take the train to the town of Colchester after reading a brief entry about it on some website or similar. (In some ways we are fans of injecting a bit of randomness into our trip planning — we often discover interesting things that way.)

Colchester is a smallish town at more or less the end of a spur railroad line. It obviously attracts a certain number of tourists, perhaps day trippers from London, since it has a number of shops and places to eat and so forth. It also has a few historic structures including a castle (of course!) and a very old church. On the other hand, it also features some mundane things — we saw a lot of hearing aid shops! Up this narrow, curving street I spotted an interesting spot of color in the green building, along with a few people populating the tables in front of the local Billiards and Snooker Club.


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Tree Trunk and Wolf Lichen

Tree Trunk With Moss
Tree Trunk With Moss

Tree Trunk and Wolf Lichen. Yosemite Valley, California. October 31, 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Wolf lichen on a tree trunk near LeConte Lodge comes back to life with autumn Rains, Yosemite Valley.

If you read the “technical data” at the end of this post, you know that it was dark in this forest! The location is near the Le Conte Lodge (across the road from the Housekeeping Camp) along the south side of Yosemite Valley, and in an area where the tall cliffs approach very closely to the road and trail. Because of this it is deeply shaded for a good part of the day, especially during this time of the years.

I had gone here looking for maple leaves and for the large oaks that grow near the lodge. I just happened to see this interesting bark texture as I hiked past and noticed the brilliant – almost fluorescent – greens of the lichen in contrast to the dull color of the tree. While it was dark here and the shot required a long exposure, an upside was that the soft, diffused light lowered the contrast of the scene to manageable levels.

(I originally referred to “moss” in the title and description of this photo. Thanks to “Dave” for setting me straight and identifying it as fruticose lichen.)

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LeConte Memorial Lodge, Autumn Oak Leaves

LeConte Memorial Lodge, Autumn Oak Leaves

LeConte Memorial Lodge, Autumn Oak Leaves. Yosemite Valley, California. November 1, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Autumn Oak leaves hang in front of the LeConte Memorial Lodge in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California.

Historic LeConte Lodge is located near the base of the cliffs along the south side of Yosemite Valley not far from the Housekeeping camp. The lodge was closed when I visited in early November, perhaps for the season, but the oak trees in front of the building were in full autumn color.

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