Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: pillars

Yesterday morning, 20 November 2014, saw me out on a bird walk in the morning. The weather has been reasonably mild recently, with sunshine and blue skies. This photo was taken along the edge of the river, where the ice was melting into pillars. The river itself was ice-free. Not a good quality photo, but I liked the ice formations. The only bird photo I got was a male Hairy Woodpecker, which I’m also posting today, partly for comparison with the Downy Woodpecker photo that I posted yesterday. After the walk, I paid another visit to where the Long-tailed Weasel can sometimes be seen. Various friends were there, too, and we were treated to a few good photo opps, including with some of the eight or so Meadow Voles it caught while we were there. It is an amazing hunter, moving so rapidly over the uneven, snowy ground and tangles of dead plants and fallen logs. Yesterday evening, I went to an excellent talk on Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park / Áísínai'pi National Historic Site, which is about a three and a half hour drive south of Calgary. I’ve only ever been there once and that was 30+ years ago. A fascinating landscape to see and photograph. Rattlesnakes, too! A 3:55 min video about Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park / Áísínai'pi National Historic Site from Alberta Parks: youtu.be/_zsdWv0mQMI

This is an old photo, printed from a slide and now being scanned from that print. It was taken back in 1967, when we lived in Doha, Qatar for about six months. When we left there, to return to England before going to live in Holland for a few months, we were able to stop off en route at a few places for between 2 and 5 days, including Beirut (4 days), Jerusalem (4 days), Cairo (2 days), along the River Nile to Luxor (5 days), Athens (4 days), Rome (2 days) and Paris (2 days). Lol, by the time we finally reached England, we felt that we never ever wanted to see ruins and columns again, anywhere. Our time in Luxor and at the Valley of the Kings was just magical, and with far fewer tourists back then than nowadays. As I wrote in a reply to Art below, that's ME standing there - for years, I thought it was a local Egyptian in my photo, but this evening, when I had zoomed in to remove endless tiny white flecks, I realized who it was, lol. Oops- I guess it wasn't me who took this photo, then! dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Karnak/feature/HypostyleHall

I always love seeing ice pillars that form along the edge of the Bow River and hang over the water. These ones were seen during a three-hour walk at Lafarge Meadows, Fish Creek Park, on 11 February 2013.

I always love seeing ice pillars that form along the edge of the Bow River and hang over the water. These ones were seen during a three-hour walk at Lafarge Meadows, Fish Creek Park, on 11 February 2013.