A Cabo San Lucas - Las Ventanas - sunrise

My room had all the luxury touches you could imagine from handcrafted tequila bottles to a powerful telescope, but, it was air conditioned. How would I hear the waves and the birds? - so I slept outside, under the stars and look what I awoke to.. .....

I love being ahead of the times particularly when it's the New York Times.

The New York Times travel section Jan 16 2011 published an article on how good the birding is in India, verifying my amazment at the variety and number of birds I saw while there.
A side twist to the non-mechanized farming practices is the benefit to the bird life. Nesting birds do not have their homes or habitat destroyed by combined harvesters instead those tending the land save the nests and direct water buffalo around the birds habitat.
Camp Chhatra Sagar Nimaj, between Agra and Jaipur, where I was at Bharatpur, is a great stopping point both for birding and a visit to a local community.

Those slopes were looking good - till I blew it.

so much snow

Our Chalet

Tobogganing on the deck

My Dearest Family

Christmas Day 2010 with dinner at IHOP.

An unusual Christmas; we woke to a white one, by 10am the pace and size of snow flakes increased and there were already 4 inches sticking to the roads. Christmas din-din got put in the deep freeze - all plans cancelled - dogs got put in the car and we made our way down the mountain to NC's piedmont to be ready for my flight to Tahoe the next day. .