An odd bit of aqueous sculpture in Copenhagen
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It's really cold outside here in Oslo, and a good time to scan some old photos. Found this one, back when I was young, had hair, and a fast car. 
1969 Buick GS 400 convertible
Ice skating is free at many outdoor rinks in Oslo, and folk go and enjoy it.
It is cold out, and that means heavy machinery can get to the timber on frozen, not swampy, ground. Here is a pile of cut logs waiting to go to the mill.
At sunset, now around 3:45pm, the stuff near the ground is dark while the sky stays orange for quite some time (when it is clear). Here is a photo of an airplane's contrail, which looks like an object falling from space. It's just an interesting juxtaposition of elements that I saw while out today.  A plane's contrail at dusk, taken from the outdoor ice rink in Ullern on the west side of Oslo, Norway When cross country skiing, I often just have my Canon S95 camera in my pocket. It is a good camera, and is quite small, so it fits in any pocket. But when skiing, I don't often have the time or will power to set the camera right for every picture, I just use Program and adjust the exposure and easy stuff to get a nice shot. The first picture below was taken with the S95 at around sunset, and it was pretty dark out. Things go all blue at this time of day, which in other circumstances can make some really cool pics. But here it just makes things, well, blue. But it was really cold out, and I decided not to twiddle with the camera to work out a better photo. Tonight, however, I wanted to see how the photo would look with just an "auto adjustments" in my photo software program. While the second photo could still use a bit of touch-up, it is much more like the scene actually looked like to the eye. The snow is white and the sky is pretty close to what it looked like. Two take away ideas. First, ignore he cold and get the pic correct the first time in the camera, and second, if the white snow ain't white, a simple auto function can make it so. 
remaining trees after a log cut...in blue
remaining spruce trees in a log cut, with white snow
Zuna Cave was not so far from our camp when I was in Venezuela. We rappelled 40 meters or so down to the valley floor, where travel was quite difficult. Eventually we found the entrance to the cave, and it was worth the trouble. This pinch, which is pretty for a cave squeeze, was actually a bit off trail and we had to do it a couple of times before we found the right way on. 
Don McFarlane in a Zuna Cave pinch
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