AFP - Tue Jul 19, 9:20 PM ET Letting off steam : General view of the Popocatepetl volcano releasing a fumarole in Puebla, Mexico. (AFP/Ronaldo Schemidt)


A dragonfly sits on a weed near the Space Shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, July 14, 2005. NASA officials are trying to determine when they attempt a launch of the STS-114 mission. The launch was scrubbed on Wednesday after a fuel gauge said full when it should have said empty. (AP Photo/Phil Sandlin)


Reef Ray : A Spotted Reef Stingray (Taeniura Lymma), from Dasyatididae species, is seen on the sand in the depths of Ras Mohammed protection area near Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. (AFP/Tarik Tinazay)


On tap : A nightingale cools off with tap water in Islamabad. (AFP/Jewel Samad)


Spain's Esther Nunez dives in the women's 3m springboard preliminary round at the World Aquatic Championships in Montreal July 22, 2005. REUTERS/Shaun Best


Polar bear, Uslada, splashes around in the water in Leningrad zoo in St. Petersburg, July 13, 2005. The temperature in the city climbed to 30 degrees Celsius (78.8 Fahrenheit) on Wednesday. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk



The full moon rises behind the ancient temple of Posseidon, in Sounio about 73 kilometers (45 miles) south-east of Athens, on Thursday, July 21, 2005. Tonight's full moon appear bigger than usual, as the distance between the Earth and its only natural satellite was the closest until 2007, at about 357290 km (223306 miles). (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)


Bumble-bees collect pollen from a sunflower in a sunflower field in Lochhausen, about 10 km (6.2 miles) west of Munich July 18, 2005. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle

At first I thought it was a right to life ad.........

Great pics, really cool.

Sunset


Pinatubo erupts


Chaco Canyon


Mt. Hood


Message for George Bush

So did I. Spooky pic, eh?




Grant Hackett of Australia swims in a preliminary heat of the Men's 800M Freestyle at the XI FINA Swimming World Championships at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal(AFP/Stan Honda)


A young girl rides a tricycle under a cascade of water from an open fire hydrant along 151st Street in upper Manhattan, July 26, 2005. REUTERS/Mike Segar


Flame Beneath the Sea : Metal artist Robert Foster stands besides his work titled 'Flame Beneath the Sea' at a exhibition featuring a range of designs using aluminium at the Melbourne Museum. (AFP/William West)


Mongolian models : Chinese Mongolian models parade the latest in traditional fashion, designed by a Mongolian designer, during the Naadam festival on the grassland of Gegental Steppe in China's Inner Mongolia region. (AFP/Goh Chai Hin)


An artist dresses as a character during a preview of 'Quidam' by the Cirque Du Soleil in Hong Kong on Thursday, July 28, 2005. The show will start in the territory on Nov. 3, 2005. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)


This image taken by International Space Station (ISS) NASA Science Officer and Flight Engineer John Phillips of the space shuttle Discovery shows the shuttle as it approaches the International Space Station and performs a backflip to allow photography of its heat shield July 28, 2005. Phillips used a 400 mm lens for this photo. Discovery was about 600 feet (182 metres) from the station. Station Commander Sergei Krikalev and Phillips took photos for about a minute and a half as Discovery Commander Eileen Collins guided the spacecraft through the flip. The photos will be analyzed by engineers on the ground as additional data to evaluate the condition of Discovery's heat shield. Picture taken July 28, 2005. EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/NASA



Dancers of the Brazilian Bahia Ballet from Salvador da Bahia perform Luis Arrieta's 'Sanctus Suite' during a rehearsal for the Cologne Summer Festival at the Philharmonie Hall in Cologne, western Germany, Thursday, July 28, 2005. (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz)

Cool thread! I'd like to contribute some pictures from my beautiful state of Maine. I'm a tree-hugging environmentally conscious liberal and feel really blessed to have this kind of natural beauty all around me:

Pretzels, I love those pictures.

This one could have been taken here in CA.

i just love this image -

- the sun sets over lake powell

WASHINGTON STATE


Tulip Fields in the Skaget Valley


Long Beach Penninsula


Northern Coast


Puget Sound with the Olympic Range as backdrop


Columbia River Gorge


Mt. Rainier


Deception Pass.


Okanogan Country


North head Light



Mt St Helens


Dry Falls

Back in antiquity, ice ages created an ice dam that many times blocked the Clark Fork river in Montana forming a lake as large at the great lakes. When the dam would eventually break, the subsequent flood was massive enough to form what is now the Columbia Gorge, and at these times dry falls had more water flowing over it than a half dozen Niagra's

Wow. What a feast for the eyes that was. Thanks.


Palestinian fishermen hope that Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip later this month will open up new coastal areas for fishing and boost Gaza's fishing industry. Israel is set to evacuate all 21 Gaza Strip settlements and four more in the West Bank in mid-August. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)


The Qwest building in Denver houses the company's headquarters, Monday, Aug. 1, 2005. Qwest Communications International Inc., which provides local phone service in 14 Midwestern and Western states, said Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2005, that its second-quarter loss narrowed to $164 million as revenue edged up and operating income grew. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey) Email Photo Print Photo


A street theater artist performs at the Olympic complex of Athens as the Olympic velodrome is seen in the background on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2005. Greece's Culture Ministry opened some Olympic facilities to the public this week to mark the first anniversary of the Athens Olympics. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)



A model displays a creation by Malaysian designer Melinda Looi during the Kuala Lumpur Fashion Week 2005 Gala Dinner in Kuala Lumpur late July 30, 2005. REUTERS/Kamarulzaman Russali


A male Tiger Swallowtail butterfly draws nectar from the flowers of a butterfly bush, Buddleia davidii, in Wilmington, Delaware August 2, 2005. Picture taken on August 2, 2005. REUTERS/Tim Shaffer


Moon Beneath the Sea : Metal artist Robert Foster stands in front of his work titled 'Moon Beneath the Sea' at a exhibition featuring a range of designs using aluminium at the Melbourne Museum. (AFP/William West)


Through a tunnel : Cyclists ride through a tunnel during the tenth stage of the 92nd Tour de France cycling race between Grenoble and Courchevel. Spaniard Alejandro Valverde (Iles Balears/Spa) won the stage. (AFP/Joel Saget)


Andean typical masks, made by craftsman Santiago Rojas, are seen hanging up on a wall in Cuzco, Peru July 14, 2005. Rojas, one of the most well known craftsman in Cuzco, has been doing the masks, used by dancers in religious parties, for more than 70 years. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

enlightening photos. rock on!

...a few pix from my last vacation in England. Taken with a Kodak DC260 Digital.


Saltburn-by-the-Sea in Cleveland (former North Riding)


The most northerly surviving British Pier and the last remaining in Yorkshire.....
Built to a length of 1,400ft (424m), damaged many times over....restored to a length of 1,250ft (379m).


....early one morning


Whitby


Whitby Abbey


Cpt. James Cook Monument


Durham Cathedral "Perched high above the River Wear".
The present Cathedral has stood on this spot as a place of prayer and pilgrimage for over 900 years. It contains the remains of Cuthbert, the saintly seventh-century bishop of Lindisfarne; it also holds the tomb of Bede, the chronicler of Cuthbert's life and the first English historian.

Oh, Copyleft all of the above by yours truly. Any proceeds derived by any person by whichever means shall go to the Project for the Old American Century.

oh well i saved all of those. very nice pretzels. and very nice everyone else.

panda, where did you get those photos from?

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JayHawk - crazy!

Awesome!



Well done Jayhawk!

thanks man !

Sky of Mind

Be prepared to scroll a lot

Hey, you've added a lot since I was last there. Very nice collection. Nice work.

Ronneburg Main Gate with my Kodak DC260

at the annual bikers church services here in town...some guys I know - so don't fugwidme !

nobody said anything about the photos i posted.

come here p., it's allright........

my favorite : http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/2449/to...lsoregon6pl.jpg

Wow ! That's cool ! Nice selection p.

my camera was in Italy recently....without me








Toscana / Tuscany......pics by my wife using my Kodak DC260 (not bad eh?)

..."just in time!" one mile from here

I love weed(s)

This is the first I've seen them!
Awesome images!





Silver Falls State Park, Oregon.

























In one small area there are many spectacular falls.
One trail alone is called 7 falls trail.

It's an awesome place to camp.

Looking west from my place a couple of weeks agoi