During my recent trip down to Key West, amongst the captivating southern and Spanish-type architecture of the town, there were quite a number of places of worship which were very endearing to the eye. Older church buildings typically are, with their spires, elaborate steeples, stained-glass windows, and stonework. The various elements typically included on a church building provide both [...]
During my recent road trip to the United States, I saw quite a variety of landscapes along the way to Florida and back from Ontario, having passed through a number of the natural climatic and geographical zones of North America. The states passed through on the way down included, in order, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington D.C., Virginia, North Carolina, [...]
In the country of my origin, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), a recent story broke about its current president, Vaclav Klaus, and his views on the increasingly prevalent issue of global climate change. He was involved in an interview that was mostly about European Union politics and economics, but a portion of it digressed to [...]
I just received one of the most innocuous junk mails ever, in my e-mail inbox. Spam does not pop up too frequently in my account, but I am all too used to seeing the narrow range of topics advertised on their subject lines, which mostly includes uncomfortably personable and obnoxious financial offers, links to unsavoury sites, and pitches for counterfeit [...]
Many of the bird species found in Florida of course vary quite a bit from what one finds in Ontario. While down there recently, I decided to continue on the path of avian nature photography I embarked on previously, and thought I’d share some of the sights I snapped.
To start off with the basics – something [...]
During our journey homeward from Florida, we stayed overnight a short ways inside the Georgia state line at a standard Super 8 Motel in one of those clustered rest stop areas I spoke of in my previous post. Well, in the morning, on our way out of its parking lot, I couldn’t help but notice how overtly secure the place appeared to be. Just have [...]
While down in the United States recently, I could not help but notice interesting things with respect to the signage, compared to what I am used to here in Ontario. I snapped up a few shots, and present my observations below.
First of all, the American Interstate system is very efficient, and highly geared towards the traveler [...]