Image experiment

Netcarshow.com publishes sets of pictures on their site and then does something I find very clever. They say "embed [these pictures] on your site". So here we go. I think it is a brilliant idea.

The 2008 Presidential Election Results Leaked!

As you all know I am often labeled as a conspiracy nut. Imagine then, my friends and faithful readers, my relief to find this video, floating barely noticed on the internet.


Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

Now some of you may wonder why the Congress doesn't act to get matters in order.
Well, my friends, here's the answer.

Delicious Snacks Distract Congressmen From Horrors Of War
See? I'm not a nut. A bolt more likely.

Crossing The Icy Waters

Inspired by a post by DaleF about cars crossing the frozen lake near where she lives, I looked up a photo I had noticed in Google Earth. It is the one below, showing a river crossing with no fewer than 8 traffic signs, all of which make perfect sense. The most obvious one is the blue one in Cyrillic letters saying that this is the river Pechora. Then there is the roman-lettered international STOP sign.

I wonder if my fellow bloggers will work out what the other signs mean...


Of the remaining six signs one seems to be redundant and another one only applies outside the winter season.
Have fun puzzling!

PS I found the original post here

Like mustard after the meal

I know it's been two weeks now since we dashed over to Paris to see MargieCM and her wonderful bunch. Two weeks can look like an eternity, especially after VallyP posted her report the moment we got off the train in Rotterdam (next time wait until we're home safe and sound, ok?).

As usual I got distracted by all sorts of things, but at last here are some pictures I took in Paris.
So now that the meal is over, here is my mustard.
Val's posted the pictures with wonderful people on them, so I am free to do the views of buildings and -of course- canals.

Let's begin with a panoramic view from the window of the appartement they'd rented not too far from the Place des Vosges.



Then 4 images from the Canal St-Martin, a real navigable canal through the city. This area is something I discovered when I was 17. Since then, others have discovered it as well - to my regret, but then I can't blame them. The area is just magical, especially the parts you don't see, because over a distance of 2.2km / 1.4M, the canal is invisible from above. On top there is a boulevard where people from the neighbourhood go for a stroll, meet acquaintances and play pétanque.

As it is hard to produce images of the invisible, here are a few from the canal where it is visible to the naked eye.