181/365: Wheel in the Sky

Oh, and that sky tonight:

In other news: I made it halfway through the year on Project 365! (In even more other news, there are three more days in the second half of the year than the first. Oh, the things I’m learning from P365!)

179/365: Seattle Pride

After a lovely evening rehydrating on the fine local beers of Seattle, I awoke to the Seattle Pride parade. The spirit of both paraders and paradegoers was invigorating.

To start: Dykes on Bikes, a phenomenal street rally:

Legalize gay cupcakes!

Parade-watchers:

I loved the self-photo here from the second floor of a parking garage:

Cropped:

The counter-protesters far outshone the protesters:

Yes, these are lonely protesters:

Seattle, my onetime home, I missed you!

164/365: The High Line

The High Line is a brilliant new public park that recently opened in NYC. The elevated park runs along the old High Line railroad track (itself an engineering marvel, see below), which had been abandoned and over the years overtaken by wild plants. The park allows the visitor to walk among the wild plants, residuals of railroad tracks, and through buildings along the train line, elevated a floor above the city. It merits all of the superlatives it has received (especially exuberant were the tweets from the opening weekend, mine included).

Above: from the amphitheater over 10th Ave at 17th Street.
Below: view in the same direction, from further back

and from the front:

View of 14th Street:

Engineering (buildings were designed with the freight tracks running into and through the buildings):

Aesthetics:

152/365: Bricks and detritus

144/365: Sunday afternoon in Washington Square Park

A perfect Sunday afternoon in Washington Square Park. La Grande Jatte has nothing on Washington Square Park (except being immortalized in a spectacular painting (one I try to see whenever in Chicago)).

There’s even a parasol! And much more stylish headwear!

109/365: Hanging

100/365: Flying water

Courtesy of the fountain at the Discovery Green, Houston, an absolutely stellar urban space.

I was already thinking about the Houston Marathon next January – it starts and ends here. Hmmm….

89/365: Varied (part 2)

Continuing the theme of the contrasts in Ireland. Most of today’s photos were taken while hiking in Glendalough, a wonderful natural and historical park less than an hour from central Dublin. But if I didn’t tell you the location, couldn’t you imagine being in Colorado in the below photos?

Or California? Or Maine?

Back to Dublin

All photos today were taken within 60 km of one another…

My Irish heart. Le sigh…

88/365: Varied

One of the things I most enjoy about visiting Ireland is the wide variation in terrain, both natural and human-created.

Kells Priory, the spectacular ruins of a fortified, enclosed priory dating to the 1100s (remarkably serene and free of visitors):

86/365: Water and sun make for an emerald isle

Above: Waterford

(OK, I recognize that a B/W photo doesn’t exactly fit the title, but the above photo is my single P365 photo.)

Below: Kilkenny

One of the most stunning elements of Ireland is just how green it can be – the Emerald Isle moniker is utterly apt. For a demonstration of why, see Kilkenny Castle below.

View from inside Kilkenny castle, 15 minutes earlier:

84/365: Permitted

81/365: Spring day with bike

I like the range of peripheral activity and color in this shot.