Date: January 14, 2012
This winter, we had some unique weather conditions in Yosemite. Due to unusually dry and snow-less weather, the mountain passes were open and accessible in January (usually they close in November). This photo is of the frozen Ellery lake, located just west of the Tioga pass.
Frozen Ellery Lake
A little piece of trivia: this lake is at elevation of 9538 feet, or 2907 meters. Pretty cool 🙂
Date: March 4, 2010
Hippie camel
This is one of the camels that took us on a safari around Pushkar in Rajastan, India. All of the camels were decorated with flowers and trinkets, but this one in particular looked like a true hippie.
Bruce the Ninja Cat
We met this cat while hiking on the Bruce Trail in the middle of nowhere in Ontario, Canada. He walked with us for the remaining 10 km to the car and ended up being adopted by our best friends Polina and Ivan. Read more about this here and see more pics here.
Bruce still lives happily with Polina & Ivan and now has a buddy Willis (get it – Bruce Willis? 🙂 )
The holidays have definitely been taking a toll on the writing. I’m getting by digging into the photo album. Here’s one more:
Sunset on a Sailboat
This glorious sunset happened when we were returning from a day sail in lake Ontario. Amazingly, the photo was taken with an iPhone camera. I guess it’s true what they say, “The best camera is the one that’s available to take the photo”.
Here is a winter special just in time for the New Year.
Almost Frozen
We found this half-frozen river while snowshoeing on the Bruce Trail last winter. This was the day when I saw the biggest amount of untouched snow in my life – it was incredible.
Giant Tree
Beach House
We found this house on Xcacel beach in Quintana Roo, Mexico (on the Caribbean coast near Cancun).
Sunset
We witnessed this amazing sunset in New Brighton State Beach, California, USA.
Montmorency Falls, Quebec, Canada
This is from our 2009 road trip to Maritimes. I hope I’ll get through my travel writing backlog sometime and actually write about it.
Compass Tales 