On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
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This weekday feature is for Balloon Juicers who are on the road, travelling, etc. and wish to share notes, links, pictures, stories, etc. from their escapades. As the US mainland begins the end of the Earth day as we measure it, many of us rise to read about our friends and their transient locales.
So, please, speak up and share some of your adventures, observations, and sights as you explore, no matter where you are. By concentrating travel updates here, it’s easier for all to keep up-to-date on the adventures of our fellow Commentariat. And it makes finding some travel tips or ideas from 6 months ago so much easier to find…
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Sometimes submissions leave me speechless. Apparently, Albatrossity has a thing for birds. So do I. Our thanks – do send more:
Where: Tandayapa Lodge in the western Andes of Ecuador, cloud forest
When 5/19/2017
Violet-tailed Sylph is found at elevations mostly above 900 meters in the cloud forest of Ecuador and Colombia. Only the male has this long iridescent tail.Booted Racket-tail has a larger range, as it can be found in the Andes of Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. Again, only the male has these spectacularly long tail streamers, although both sexes sport the white puffy “boots”.
Can you believe this beautiful creature exists? And this one:
So, so many thanks for sharing these pictures. I hope you’ll consider a guest post or two to share some knowledge and explain part of your expertise – I know many of us would have questions.
Today, lots of joy from otmar, whose submissions are always a great pleasure. I had planned these for Wednesday but they were shifted one day. Friday I’ll finish JRinWV’s Italy series and next week there’s bunch more – folks are so generous and excited to share their world. And now – otmar:
Where it was taken: Paris
When: June 2nd – 6th
Other notes or info about the picture:
Spawn #1’s grades this year were important for his admission to the
school we want him to attend next year. The carrot was a trip to
Disneyland Paris.He delivered the grades, so just back from the business trip to Tallinn
I went to Paris with the family. One day standing in queues in front of
rides and two and half days queuing to get into the sights of Paris. On
the pictures are the Louvre (which we declined to enter), the Eiffel
Tower (where we managed to book timed tickets in advance), the
Madeleine, Sacre Coer, Notre Dame, the obelisk at Concorde, Arc de
Triomphe, Musee d’Orsay and Centre Pompidou.
I think I was your son’s age when I went to Paris. I remember it to this day, though it was a Paris of a different age (1980). What a glorious city, though truth be told, I prefer my cousins’ property in Les Cevennes.
?BillinGlendaleCA
The second pic from the top of the Eiffel Tower has Paris Hilton in it, to the left of the athletic field. I mean the Paris Hilton(we stayed there in 1994).
Elizabelle
Paris and spectacular little birds. Beautiful photos. What’s not to like?
Good morning.
ThresherK
I’m in a bit of awe at these.
Lapassionara
I love Paris. For some reason, I end up taking photos of the olive vendors and the flower vendors in the street markets. Hope to be there in October this year.
Lapassionara
PS. All of these photos are lovely.
rikyrah
Paris….sigh..
Can you ever take a bad picture of Paris?
I don’t think so.???
Quinerly
Wow!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo fka Edmund Dantes
There is never a bad shot of Paris.
Tenar Arha
I want to go to Paris again now.
I think I figured out what reward to save for, to act as a spur for cleaning out my father’s house.
ETA Oh and Albatrossity, those birds are fantastic and those photos are greatly appreciated.
MomSense
Bonjour, Paris! And those birds – exquisite.
rikyrah
@Tenar Arha:
Agreed. I would never get close enough to animals to get pictures like that.
Betty Cracker
I recently watched a nature documentary on Netflix about Colombia that had a segment on hummingbirds like the ones pictured above. The coloring was similar — the feathers were shimmering purples and greens like little Mardi Gras queens! May have been the same species, but the birds in the documentary didn’t have little white boots. Not that I saw, anyway. The documentary was in Spanish, so I only understood every third word or so.
stinger
Wow, Paris and Ecuador, now on the bucket list. Also, becoming an amazing photographer (much less likely than visiting P & E).
Major Major Major Major
Wow, what a bird!
JR in WV
@rikyrah:
Birds are great work. I suspect a V long lens allowing one to work better at a distance. Birders tend to get special glass for their hobby.
Paris is great, too, thanks so much. We spent a day in Paris, and 2 nights. Should have photos of the two restaurants. we ate at, very different but both great. Would like to spend a month, maybe not all in Paris, but Britton, the mountains, etc. drifting on a canal, etc, etc.
Original Lee
Beautiful birds! And now my traveling feet are itching to go to Paris.
EthylEster
I noticed yesterday something I have wanted since the last site rebuild…which must be nearing the end, no?
Anyway thank you very much for making the blogroll open the selected page in a new window.
That’s the way it worked for years.
Now if we could just get back to where it is not in a combo box!
Alain the site fixer
@EthylEster: it didn’t open in a new window because iOS defaults to blocking pop ups and I got sick of error reports. So I’m trying this with labeling. If I still get lots of complaints then back to the way you don’t like it.