My favourite photo from a friends wedding

One of my favourite trees ever! Isle of Man, U.K. Please view full.

This boat is the fully restored Endeavour II - America's Cup finalist in 1937. I hope that this picture of the wind in her sails propeling her elegant shape (with some added noise), transports you back a little to the 1930s.

Taken in San Juan last year during a sudden storm.

This man is carring some salvaged belongings over the remains of his neighbor's house in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

Compression wrecked some things. Please full view if you have time.

Bristlecone pine, aka krummholz (twisted wood), growing in a small "island" just below timberline at around 11,000 feet altitude in the Rocky Mountains.

At this severely windblown altitude, trees reproduce by vegetative layering on their lee sides, while dying back from wind damage on their windward sides. The way they lean as they grow is from the wind blowing so hard against them constantly.

Krummholz islands may actually move about 2 centimeters per year in response to the wind!

Bristlecones live to be thousands of years old.