Mms. & Messrs. of the Society;
it occurs to YT that the fabulous Google Bros. has created a Tool of Utmost Suitability for the Education & Entertainment of the Society. Said Tool, one Google Earth, allows one to store places of interest, to paint the broad strokes of one's foreign experiences, and to exhilarate one's Fellow Members with the piquant details of Hidden Locales.
However -
It also occurs to the same that our most Esteemed Board of Notices does not support the attachment of said Maps, making them available to all Members to Edit.
Has anyone chanced upon a solution to this dilemma?
WW, HMCE
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Costa Ricans Ohoy!
This past weekend Wensworth & Yours Truly had the pleasure to entertain a couple from the costarican clan here in these northern shores, Mr. & Mrs. De la Cruz, Esq. They were passing through on a magnificent vessel, the Star Princess, en route on a Baltic cruise. They stopped in Helsinki for mere half a day, but we did what we could!
Wensworth picked them up in his favourite carriage, and I was able to join them a bit later, having returned from the Eastern Provinces (celebrating the pagan Mid-Summer festivals). We took our guests to a few churches, some monuments, lunch, and an out-doors museum. Here are some pictographs for Your viewing pleasure:
Waiting for the typical butter-fried muikku dish.
Incidentally, the finns exclaim "Muikku!" instead of
"Say Cheese!" when taking the photographicks.
Mr. Alvaro & Mrs. Maria-Elena in middle-ground,
with Wensworth operating the Photographick Apparatus,
in the back-ground
Wensworth explaining something or another in the
back-yard of a typical finnish domicile (not his)
We hope they had as good a time in and around Helsinki as we did, and we heartily wish they have a most enjoyable cruise, weather and fortune the rest of the way!! Welcome again, and may your memories be fond!
Onwards & Upwards!
Paddlewick, Society Cruise & Hospitality Co-ordinator
Wensworth picked them up in his favourite carriage, and I was able to join them a bit later, having returned from the Eastern Provinces (celebrating the pagan Mid-Summer festivals). We took our guests to a few churches, some monuments, lunch, and an out-doors museum. Here are some pictographs for Your viewing pleasure:
Waiting for the typical butter-fried muikku dish.Incidentally, the finns exclaim "Muikku!" instead of
"Say Cheese!" when taking the photographicks.
Mr. Alvaro & Mrs. Maria-Elena in middle-ground,with Wensworth operating the Photographick Apparatus,
in the back-ground
Wensworth explaining something or another in theback-yard of a typical finnish domicile (not his)
We hope they had as good a time in and around Helsinki as we did, and we heartily wish they have a most enjoyable cruise, weather and fortune the rest of the way!! Welcome again, and may your memories be fond!
Onwards & Upwards!
Paddlewick, Society Cruise & Hospitality Co-ordinator
P-wick, SCHC, eyeing aforementioned vessel. Such a headquarters it would make!
Friday, June 22, 2007
Oriental Mysteries
June -07
Having deemed the CWC expedition a resounding success, and a locale well worth further investigation and investment, yours truly is now on the way back to the gentle embrace of the Society Headquarters - but only briefly, in order to fill in grant forms and sponsorship requests for further escapades.
The way back winds through the far east, the City of Emperors (and of Exhaust Particle Laden Air). Glimpsed only briefly, the vast city evokes awe and regret simultaneously, both for past glory and for future troubles: this dragon grows too fast for its good. One is particularly impressed by the lyrical euphemism for 'military might' (ref. illustration, bottom right).
Having deemed the CWC expedition a resounding success, and a locale well worth further investigation and investment, yours truly is now on the way back to the gentle embrace of the Society Headquarters - but only briefly, in order to fill in grant forms and sponsorship requests for further escapades.
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The way back winds through the far east, the City of Emperors (and of Exhaust Particle Laden Air). Glimpsed only briefly, the vast city evokes awe and regret simultaneously, both for past glory and for future troubles: this dragon grows too fast for its good. One is particularly impressed by the lyrical euphemism for 'military might' (ref. illustration, bottom right).
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Counterweight
April and May -07
The mission has been a success: I have found my local liaison, and we proceed to observe the peculiarities and curiosities of this rugged land. Everything is taken care of; yours truly must only watch arrangements unfold in rapid succession and enjoy them with grim determination.
Our first expedition head out into the rugged reaches of the Royal National Park. This low-growth headland of calciferous stone and sandstone has provided the locals with ample seafood for millennia, and the same have documented their stalky exploits with life-size rock drawings of their catch.
We do not have the fortune to make the acquaintance of the wildebeast, despite various more or less odorous spoor and occasional hiss in the bushes.
The second expedition embarked into the vastness of Kakadu National Park. Daring uncivilized accommodation, marshes, mosquitos and ever-looming avians we plunged our path deep into the tropickal regions, encountering landscapes of low-lying waters and tiered rocks ascending into nearly mountaineous heights, all in colors of such vividity that one can merely deeply regret the limited capability of our Imaging Apparatus every time one lays eyes on its Renderings.
The local flora contorts itself into shapes alluring to the mathemagickal mind, while the fauna mostly lurks.
Again, we had little contact with the native man, but his flaming footprint was evident everywhere. The lowlands are burned traditionally to renew the forest and prevent larger fires.
(All images courtesy of the Emeritus of Mysterious & Alluring Imagery, Undercover Expedition Unit.)
The mission has been a success: I have found my local liaison, and we proceed to observe the peculiarities and curiosities of this rugged land. Everything is taken care of; yours truly must only watch arrangements unfold in rapid succession and enjoy them with grim determination.
Our first expedition head out into the rugged reaches of the Royal National Park. This low-growth headland of calciferous stone and sandstone has provided the locals with ample seafood for millennia, and the same have documented their stalky exploits with life-size rock drawings of their catch.
We do not have the fortune to make the acquaintance of the wildebeast, despite various more or less odorous spoor and occasional hiss in the bushes.
The second expedition embarked into the vastness of Kakadu National Park. Daring uncivilized accommodation, marshes, mosquitos and ever-looming avians we plunged our path deep into the tropickal regions, encountering landscapes of low-lying waters and tiered rocks ascending into nearly mountaineous heights, all in colors of such vividity that one can merely deeply regret the limited capability of our Imaging Apparatus every time one lays eyes on its Renderings.
The local flora contorts itself into shapes alluring to the mathemagickal mind, while the fauna mostly lurks.
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Again, we had little contact with the native man, but his flaming footprint was evident everywhere. The lowlands are burned traditionally to renew the forest and prevent larger fires.
(All images courtesy of the Emeritus of Mysterious & Alluring Imagery, Undercover Expedition Unit.)
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