Now I’m really deep into my shoe box of interesting photos of unusual things to share with my chums at TravelGumbo. Today, I came across these very pleasing arches, each capped with roofing tiles, which appear to serve the function of supporting and keeping apart this section of the old city walls in Tallinn, Estonia, capital of this Baltic state. Colour, texture and form…. I love it!!
A visit to the Desert View Watchtower on the eastern portion of the Grand Canyon’s South Rim. Constructed in the 1930s, it offers magnificent canyon views and a tie to the Native American history of the Canyon.
I was visiting a friend, and this was the view from their house. I could understand why they built their house facing this direction. I was taken by the beauty!
Samantha shares some street art pictures from her recent trip to Bogotá, Colombia.
A garden in South Wales is the topic of today’s post from ProfessorAbe
DrFumblefinger shares photos of the Fitz Roy Massif, one of the most famous and difficult to climb peaks in the world, situated in Patagonia.
After I wrote a few words about the floating fisherman’s villages in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, I was asked by
The sign of times soon to come! This was my first summer solstice sunrise at Stonehenge in England and I
Nestling in the main window of the old medieval apothecary’s store in the old city centre of Tallinn, Estonia, I
I’ve been wondering about these arches, Mac. Were the purely aesthetic, or is there some function to them that you could discern?
I think the arches were actually functional, probably bracing the wall of the building on the right against the thicker fortress wall on the left. The tiled tops must be to protect the arch against the effects of the weather eroding the arches. Unusual, in any event.