Viv and David's Wedding!

What says "We'll be together forever!" better than Journey?

Nicole and Josh's Wedding

Josh's Wedding Album

Birthday at Tia Pol

Comprehensive Trek Album

Singalila Ridge Trek

The hill station town of Darjeeling.

A man walking up a steep, steep incline with a trunk and a basket of live hens on his back.


Darjeeling women walking under the bridge that connects Glenary's Bakery to the mall.


There were many, many stray dogs in Darjeeling town.


In the bazaar were fruitmongers, cloth and clothing sellers, hair-cutters, and this man who was making jewelry with a small oil flame and hand tools.

The bright-colored stones, gateway, prayer flags, and hanging bells of the Buddhist shrine at the hilltop above Darjeeling town.

School children make their way home through the narrow bazaar at the top of Darjeeling. All the schools seemed to require British-style dress for class.

This woman was selling hot tea for three or four rupee on the street where Jeeps met travellers on their way to trailheads and nearby villages.

Starting up the trail.

These men are breaking cobbles to size with hammers and fitting them into the path.

Women laboriously carrying firewood from the uplands down to the valley villages.

Tibetan runes carved on boulders alongside the trail.

The trail passed many small villages of four or five buildings and maybe thirty people as it wound up into the foothills.

To the left the porters' shortcut winds up a steeper hillside than the main trail to the right. Whenever possible, we hiked the porters' route.

Buddhist prayer flags on pikes. There was a lot of fog almost every day, on account of a strong wind from Bengal. When the wind swung around and came from Tibet, as happened on later days in the mornings, it was crisp and clear.

Golconda

Golconda

Golconda fort and the tombs of the Nizan kings. Also, Chris eats a dosa the size of a small dog.

Everything looks so damn Indian

India (Hyderabad)

Some early photos from India.

West Side Highway Run

Just an archway that I like, off Bedford Street on the way north to Christopher. There's a small courtyard that's very nice, which I didn't take photos of because some tenants had their front doors open to the yard and were doing work on their interiors. When I hit Christopher, I turn west to get to the Hudson.






This is a pier at West 26th Street which is designed to allow loaded rail cars to roll directly off the decks of cargo ships. There's a lot of old iron gearing, probably to raise or lower the end of the pier to the proper deck height for whatever ship is in port.



Iron wheels for hand-powering the works.



The gearing seen through a pair of timbers.

These gears were in reasonably good shape considering how long they'd been in disuse.



A gargoyle in a garden on the West Side park that's been under development the past few years.



A ruined shipping pier. This one had caught fire in the 1970s, and the framework was twisted and warped from the heat.


Another shipping pier. I like the crows nest above the water-side end of the rails, which seems like it controls the raising and lowering of the pier to deck level.

A tunnel which takes the West Side Highway path under the road and up a hill, to where it flows into the promenade of Riverside Park. This is about a quarter mile north of the 79th Street boat basin.



A Civil War memorial off Riverside Drive, seen from the rocks at the top of the running path at 91st Street. This is where I usually turn around, if I'm doing a ten mile run.



Claremont Riding Academy, on 89th Street off Riverside Drive. The club is near the bridle paths of Central Park. From the sidewalk outside it smelled pleasantly of horse manure, hay, and animals.



A ramp and hay elevator in the club, for taking silage to all the levels of the stables.