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ImagesOfTheJourney > IN All Their Glory 
The time spent on makeup was worth it.  Toronto Gay Pride Parade
Taken while I was marching in the parade.
ImagesOfTheJourney > Ancient Caledon

Earlier in the same flight mentioned in Autumn Glory we flew over a bank of ground fog. 

The sun was just over the horizon and deep gold in colour. 

Of course nothing in Caledon is ancient except the rocks but it felt like we were somewhere in Lost Horizon and an earlier time in England had emerged from the mist.
ImagesOfTheJourney > Not Hard To Swallow
ImagesOfTheJourney > Santorini Sunset from Ios. The open water is actually the caldera of the volcano that exploded several thousand years ago destroying the Minoan civilization on Crete. 

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ImagesOfTheJourney > Sailing The Tectonic Seas

It might take a few million years to get anywhere but you can imagine what this amazing mountain has "seen" in its time...

Mont Aiguille (el. 2085 m./6842 ft.) is a mountain in the massif du Vercors in the French Prealps, located 58 km (36 mi) south of Grenoble. The mountain is most noted for its first ascent in 1492. Charles VIII ordered that the peak be climbed, so one of his servants, Antoine de Ville, made the ascent using a combination of ladders and other artificial aids. This makes it particularly important to climbers and is now climbed many times each year. 

SAILING THE TECTONIC SEAS by David Cale

The mountain rears magnificent 
like a titanic ship’s prow 
it cuts through countless dawns 
sun warmed or storm wracked 
mute testimony 
to the tectonic brooding 
of the planet below our feet 

I am tempted to feel small 

But a mountain is just a mountain 
not a comment on me
ImagesOfTheJourney > My Precious
ImagesOfTheJourney > Sailing The Tectonic Seas

It might take a few million years to get anywhere but you can imagine what this amazing mountain has "seen" in its time...

Mont Aiguille (el. 2085 m./6842 ft.) is a mountain in the massif du Vercors in the French Prealps, located 58 km (36 mi) south of Grenoble. The mountain is most noted for its first ascent in 1492. Charles VIII ordered that the peak be climbed, so one of his servants, Antoine de Ville, made the ascent using a combination of ladders and other artificial aids.  This makes it particularly important to climbers and is now climbed many times each year. 

SAILING THE TECTONIC SEAS by David Cale

The mountain rears magnificent 
like a titanic ship’s prow 
it cuts through countless dawns 
sun warmed or storm wracked 
mute testimony 
to the tectonic brooding 
of the planet below our feet 

I am tempted to feel small 

But a mountain is just a mountain 
not a comment on me
ImagesOfTheJourney > La Place Du Canada
One of these old bullet scarred German bunkers remains, renamed "Place du Canada."   The Queen's Own Rifles  memorial plaque describes the battle that day which and asks you to try to imagine what it was like.  

The trouble was I couldn't and suspected that only those actually there could ever grasp what took place.  I took a deep breath.  The salt spray smelled of the iodine rich seaweed strewn on the beach, the surf crashed and roared, and the grey-green sea was empty of  the madness of men.
IN All Their Glory
The time spent on makeup was worth it. Toronto Gay Pride Parade
Taken while I was marching in the parade.
ImagesOfTheJourney > IN All Their Glory 
The time spent on makeup was worth it.  Toronto Gay Pride Parade
Taken while I was marching in the parade.
IN All Their Glory
The time spent on makeup was worth it. Toronto Gay Pride Parade
Taken while I was marching in the parade.
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