West Point

This West Point is the northernmost island of
the Falklands, home to some cattle,
a rookery filled with nesting albatross and
rockhopper penguins, and one
adventurous family who love living there.

[Linking back to Blue Monday.]

inSPIREd Sunday

Here's a detail from Christ Church Cathedral,
in Port Stanley, capital of the Falklands.

And those huge white things
outside the church are
the jawbones of a couple
of very large whales.
(BTW, now that they're
protected the whales are
starting to come back
in the Southern Ocean.)

[To see more churches
(with or without whalebones)
from around the world,
go here.]

The Weekend in Black and White

This enormous rubber tree—20m (65 feet)
high and  50m (164 feet) wide;
impossible to photograph the whole thing and
many branches are supported—was planted near
what is now the Recoleta Cemetery, in
Buenos Aires, in 1800.

[To see more b/w images, visit Dragonstar's meme.]

Weekend Reflections

All decked out in special cold-weather
gear to enjoy the beauty of Orne 
Harbor, in Antarctica.

[To see more Weekend Reflections,
visit James's meme.]

Tell us how you really feel

I was corrected by an Argentine because I
referred to the Malvinas (as she called them)
as the Falklands.  But these signs in
Port Stanley, the capital, make it very clear
(and so did the locals I spoke with) just
how the people who live there feel—British
through and through.

[To see more signs, go here.]

ABC Wednesday—U is for "Uruguay"

This wonderfully wabi-sabi building is
in the Ciudad Viejo, in Montevideo.
Only got to spend a couple of days here,
but the Old City was charming, the
people too—and we ate some 
gooood food.  

[To see more ABC posts, go here.]

uphill

I learned quite a few things while I was on my trip to
Antarctica (and I'm just posting this now due
to welcome-home computer issues).  One of the things
I learned is that you can go almost anywhere if 
you just have sticks—including to the top of a  
snowy, icy, very high hill (though going down that hill
was actually harder than going up).  

[Linking back to Ruby Tuesday
and Our World Tuesday.]