Some mother’s son, guarding the border between China and Pakistan, along the Karakoram Highway. 7-Oct-2006.

7-Oct-2006. On the Chinese side of the border with Pakistan.

The view from the ridge at Isalo National Park (Madagascar) on our way to the Piscine Naturelle, which is a scramble down from the ridge, across the open area and into the canyon on the other side.

View from the ridge looking across to the entrance to the canyon with the Piscine Naturelle, Isalo National Park, Madagascar.

“Mother Motherland” (Ukrainian: Батьківщина-Мати), an enormous and impressive statue in Kiev (Kyiv), Ukraine.
For more information check Wikipedia. But just checking out the size of the humans at the bottom of the statue should give you some idea of the size.

19 Sep 2009. Mother Motherland. Kiev/Kyiv, Ukraine.

In September 2009 we visited our youngest, who was serving two-plus years in the Peace Corps in Ukraine, living in a small village on the Crimean peninsula, an hour’s bus ride from the Crimean capital, Simferopol. We had a couple days of sight-seeing with him, after arriving in Kiev/Kyiv, and then took a long train ride to Simferopol followed by a taxi ride to his village. During our ten days with him, we visited in the village and walked in the vicinity, were “show and tell” for a day at the school where he was working, and spent days tripping to Simferopol, to Yalta, to Sevastopol and elsewhere via trolleybus. One day, we visited Bakhchisaray Palace, where this photo was taken.

Bakhchisaray Palace, Crimea. 25Sep2009

(Northern Thailand) Mae Sa hills. Small Hmong boy looks out over his “backyard” [25 Nov 2010]

“[tap tap] Did you know you have a misplaced apostrophe?”