Alberta-British Columbia Boundary.

That picture of the Bridge with all the Gold Jewellers on it is almost taken from the same spot as this one of mine.

That picture taken from the Hill is a beauty.

We are both wearing Leather Jackets so I imagine it was a cool time of year.
But I don't know exactly what month it was.

Did you visit this Market Place.

This Pig is a very famous worldwide Sculpture.

Oh no, I missed seeing the Pig! Now I'll have to go back for another visit.

Still on the subject of towers, did you climb the steps of the Bell Tower in Florence? I did, and it nearly killed me (it was an excessively hot day, and I wasn't in good health at the time). It was about then that I decided to look for towers with elevators in them.

When you were traveling in the Pisa-Florence area, did you visit Lucca? There's a tower in Lucca with trees growing out of the top. No elevator, though.

No June,
We never heard of Lucca in 1974.
But it looks like a very nice City to visit.
I did take this Picture from inside a disused Tower.

I know we came from the complete opposite side of the World to visit Florence.
And there were so many Iconic subjects to see and visit.
But this Senior Lady caught my attention and I am very pleased with My Picture.
I had the Statue of David right behind me when I took this Picture.
I find it amazing how blasé the local Italian people are about their History.

When you live surrounded by historic artefacts going back several thousand years, I guess it is easy to become jaded! However, I have noticed that young Italians are enthusiastic to re-enact medieval ceremonies, especially if it involves dressing up in tights. Here's an historically-costumed, drum-beating band marching to entertain the visitors at Lucca's annual Gardening Festival. I should explain that the old town of Lucca is surrounded by a humongous defensive wall so wide that it has a road on top of it and the bastions are tree-filled parks. Every year, for a week in September, a section of the wall's top is partitioned-off and used to stage a horticultural event. Specialist nurseries set up exhibits, booths sell gardening books, artists show garden art, artisans sell botanically inspired artifacts, and so on.

It must have been fun to be there on that day in September.

This Picture of 'Boy with Thorn' was in the Gallery right behind the Statue of David.
The Gallery is called Uffizi Gallery.
The Original Boy with Thorn, also called Fedele (Fedelino) or Spinario, is a Greco-Roman Hellenistic bronze sculpture of a boy withdrawing a thorn from the sole of his foot, now in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome.
A Roman marble of this subject from the Medici collections is in this corridor at the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, and that is the one in this Picture.
Today all these Sculptures are behind very thick Perspex to protect them from us/the people who love them, Go figure.

That's a lovely statue, and a great pic! How are you converting your printed photographs to digital, ginger?

The negatives are scanned in a special cradle that lies flat in the scanner.
The cradle holds one strip of negatives at a time.
Then they are automaticly transferred to the PC. and numbered.
It is a lengthy process but well worth the effort.
There is a second cradle that holder coloured slides.
It is a tad slower, every Slide needs to be put in in the right way and order.

I got the cradles and special scanner from 'Dick Smiths Electronics'.

Much earlier you asked if we went up into the Space Needle in Seattle.
Well it took some time to find these Pictures.
And yes we did pay the $15 each to go up there. (and no, we did not get any Space Suits)
We chose not to eat at the Restaurant as it was 12.55 pm and we had already eaten Maccas, pity really.
Sammy felt a tad Sea Sick, The tower sways about 1½ meters at the top.
To clarify that, it moves 800 mm either way off centre.

And this was taken from the very top at the observation deck.
I never did find out what those weird looking Buildings are at the base.
Looks like some kind of Amusement Park ?

Those buildings down below look like giant bags or packages - very strange indeed!

A swaying tower sounds like fun!

Thanks for the photo conversion information. I was hoping you would say, "I just lay the photo on my scanner", but special cradles and such are beyond me, and I haven't kept any negatives at all. Perhaps I'll try using my digital camera to take pics of old photos. The vast majority of my pre-digital pics are photos, not slides. First, though, I need to unearth my old photo albums and sort them out. Some albums contain just one or two vacation's worth of pics, postcards, brochures & maps, while other albums are garden journals that span many years.

I have just one more Italian tower pic to show you. I call these the Tipsy Towers. They are in the city of Bologna. I would not like to live anywhere near them, especially during an earthquake.

P.S. Is it time to start a new thread? This one is starting to take a long time to load.

Did you ever see the Sbandieratores better known as The Flag-wavers ?
This ia a Flag-waving Ceremony in Lucca ?
http://www.wildjunket.com/2011/03/22/photoblog-flag-waving-ceremony-in-lucca-italy/

Like you said.
They love to run about in tight Pants ???

Seeing all those different kinds of Pears on that table in your last picture.
Reminds me of our encounter with Pears in North Italy.
These Pears were growing in a front yard right next to the main road.
We never picked any, we only took Pictures.

Back at the Space Tower.

View from the top of Tower.
No Martians up here this day. ^_^

Last Picture from Seattle.
Just shows to go how close Seattle is to Vancouver.
Picture of 'Tablet' on top of Tower.

The Flag-wavers web page would not load for me, but I'm guessing it refers to whirling the flag, throwing it up into the air and catching it again. I have seen it done on a number of occasions, but never managed to get a pic of the flag in the air. My reflexes are too slow, alas.

I didn't realize the proximity of all the landmarks on the Tablet. Were you in Seattle before or after Mount St. Helens blew its top?

I look forward to the new thread!

Horse died yesterday afternoon.
Was busy burying her and Planting Tree next to her.
I don't think we need a Picture here, Maybe later.

Oh Kell, I'm so sad to hear of your loss! Take all the time you need to grieve.

Thanks June for your condolences.
She was 40 years old.
I have never known a Horse to be over 28 to 30 years old.
She belonged to DD. And her favourite Tree is a Poinciana.
So this morning I went and bought a large Pink Poinciana to plant next to her Cross.

When you say that link to the Flag Waving does not work for you.
How do you use the link ?
Do you cut and paste it ?
Or do you simply click on it as you see it in DG ?
http://www.wildjunket.com/2011/03/22/photoblog-flag-waving-ceremony-in-lucca-italy/

Wow, 40 years is an incredible age for a horse. I think that only a happy horse would live that long. She must have been well loved.

The link to the flag-waving site probably isn't working for me because it has been truncated somewhere along the way - the end has been cut off and replaced with dots - so whether I click on it in DG or cut and paste the link, nothing happens. I guess my Internet browser needs to know what comes after "/photoblog-flag-waving-c..." to reach the web address. But don't worry about it. See you on the new thread!

I have moved the fence line around her Plot to stop her friend from walking on her.
By the way, it was a Frangipani Tree, not a Poinciana.

I feel she could not have chose a better place to expire.

Because she is only 40 meters from a main road.
I have had a lot of unknown Neighbours and Friends stop and give me their condolences.
It sure does help me move on. :o)

It's a very fine final resting place, and a great memorial tree.

I am a tad annoyed with the Garden centre where I got the Frangipani Tree from.
I told them it would be in 100% full Sunshine.
Well now 3 days later every leaf is burnt and crumbling up.
I know the new leaves will be fine.
I think they stored it under shade cloth before I got it.

That's a shame! I hope you let the garden centre know what happened, and if the tree does not recover, they should replace it.

Well I took your advice June.
I went back to the Nursery with Photographs.
After explaining what the Tree was for, they were quite sympathetic.
I asked them to exchange it but they said no.
Instead they gave me the full $74 refund and told me to keep the Tree.
And now even after 6 days it is starting to get new leaves.
It is also shooting one flower spike.
So everything will hopefully turn out OK.

I find it amazing that here on The Cold Goast Tree Leaves get burned by the hot Sun.
There in Canada your Leaves get burned by Frost.
Somewhere in the World there has to be a nice Balance.
Not too Hot and not too Cold. ;o)

Out of all this chaos a speck of hope appears.

No wonder they gave me a complete refund.

That's a bad case of sunburn! I'm glad to hear you got a refund, and I hope the tree eventually recovers. Will you be getting cool, autumn weather soon? Or are you in a tropical zone that doesn't have seasons?

We do have Hot and Cold Weather.
The Hottest it ever gets here is 38º C.
And the Coldest is -1º C.
But that temperature is only for 2 hours at Sunrise.

But unfortunately nothing like your Snow. (drat)

June, you have asked me earlier about those Starpicked pullers.
I took these Pictures while removing the fence around 'Topaz'.
This is how it starts.

Then the jaws are put around the picket.
And the handle is pumped up and down.
It never fails.