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A few years ago, I visited the Grand Canyon; more precisely, a portion of its South Rim. It was winter, so the snow provided a nice color contrast to the golden-hued soil and rocks typically found there. I would have liked to spend more time there but our schedule allowed us only a few hours.

Here is a gallery of photographs from that trip. And there’s also video from the ride in the propeller plane that took us there.

Enjoy!

South Rim, Grand Canyon, USA
South Rim, Grand Canyon, USA
Grand Canyon, USA
South Rim, Grand Canyon, USA
Panorama, South Rim, Grand Canyon
South Rim, Grand Canyon, USA
South Rim, Grand Canyon, USA
South Rim, Grand Canyon, USA
South Rim, Grand Canyon, USA
South Rim, Grand Canyon, USA
South Rim, Grand Canyon, USA
South Rim, Grand Canyon, USA
South Rim, Grand Canyon, USA
South Rim, Grand Canyon, USA
South Rim, Grand Canyon, USA
South Rim, Grand Canyon, USA
Nevada desert
South Rim, Grand Canyon, USA
South Rim, Grand Canyon, USA
South Rim, Grand Canyon, USA
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At the South Rim of the Grand Canyon

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Day 4 of our Italian road trip took us from Chioggia to Ravenna, Rimini and Grottammare, which is where we stopped for the night. Get a cup of coffee and get comfortable, there are 71 photos for you to enjoy here.

If you’d like to see the other posts from our trip, here are days 1, 2 and 3 (part 1 and part 2); and here’s the overview.

A reed silhouetted against the morning sun. On the road between Chioggia and Ravenna, in the region of Emilia Romagna, Italy.
A Ford C-Max. On the road between Chioggia and Ravenna, Italy.
On the road between Chioggia and Ravenna, Italy
Ravenna, Italy
Ravenna, Italy
Ravenna, Italy
Ravenna, Italy
Ravenna, Italy
Ravenna, Italy
Ravenna, Italy
Ravenna, Italy
Ravenna, Italy
Ravenna, Italy
Ravenna, Italy
Ravenna, Italy
Ravenna, Italy
Ravenna, Italy
Ravenna, Italy
Ravenna, Italy
Rimini Beach, Italy
Rimini Beach, Italy
Rimini Beach, Italy
Rimini Beach, Italy
Rimini Beach, Italy
Rimini, Italy
Rimini, Italy
Rimini, Italy
Rimini, Italy
Looking at a shop window in Rimini, Italy
Rimini, Italy
Rimini, Italy
Rimini, Italy
Rimini, Italy
Rimini, Italy
Rimini, Italy
Rimini, Italy
Rimini, Italy
Rimini, Italy
Rimini, Italy
Rimini, Italy
Rimini, Italy
Rimini, Italy
Rimini, Italy
A large tree without leaves fills the foreground, framing a landscape of distant hillsides filled with trees and orchards. On the road between Rimini and Ancona, Italy.
Plowed land and farms, on the road between Rimini and Ancona, Italy
On the road between Rimini and Ancona, Italy
On the road between Rimini and Ancona, Italy
On the road between Rimini and Ancona, Italy
Ancona countryside, Italy
Ancona countryside, Italy
Ancona countryside, Italy
Grottammare, Italy, as seen from one of the adjoining hillsides
Outside Grottammare, Italy, at night. Can you guess why the branches in the foreground are colored red?
A piazzetta in Grottammare, Italy, at night
Grottammare, Italy
Grottammare, Italy
Grottammare, Italy
Grottammare, Italy
Grottammare, Italy
Grottammare, Italy
Nighttime above a street in Grottammare, Italy. Headlights and taillights leave streak marks in this long exposure.
Grottammare, Italy
Grottammare, Italy
Grottammare, Italy
Grottammare, Italy
Grottammare, Italy
Grottammare, Italy
Grottammare, Italy
Grottammare, Italy
Grottammare, Italy
Grottammare, Italy
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Italian road trip – Day 4 – Ravenna, Rimini and Grottammare

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Now that August is almost here and summer flowers will soon go dormant, I thought I’d show you the beauty we’ve been enjoying during the last couple of months. There are 49 photos in this post; I hope you’ll take the time to see each one. Should you love the fruits and flowers — and I think you will — my wife is the one who gets the credit, she pampers them every day. Enjoy!

Evening sky reflected in the pond in our garden.
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Summertime in our garden

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This marks the third year in a row that I publish photos of flowers from our garden. It’s gotten to be somewhat of a tradition. These beautiful flowers are a source of joy for us and I hope that by sharing them with you, some of that joy brightens up your day as well.

This year, we’re particularly happy about our tulips. Ligia loves collecting various tulip bulbs and seeing the beautiful flowers they make each year. You’ll see a number of parrot and ruffled tulips among our photographs. I counted rococo, black parrot, apricot parrot, silver parrot and a very special bloom which I call striped peppermint, which I chose as the featured image for this post.

I freely admit I am a novice when it comes to flowers and botany, so please correct me if I made any mistakes with the names of the tulips.

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Springtime in our garden

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I have a sneaking suspicion winter read my last post, because we got an April snowfall. It wasn’t an insignificant little weather fluke. It started snowing mid-morning and it went on through the day and the night, with little breaks here and there. The ground was warm so we didn’t get a proper snow cover but the next day, there was a fragile, melting, little blanket of the white stuff in the garden — proof that winter did its best against the warm weather.

Enjoy these photos. I took them a couple of hours after the snow started coming down.

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An April snowfall

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