From a visit to the Udvar-Hazy Center, an extension of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The SR-71 Blackbird And the Concorde I remember that at the end of a trip to Europe as we were flying home through Charles de Gaulle Airport in mid-July of 2000 we took a bus out across the tarmac to board our plane, and the very next plane over was a Concorde. I snapped a picture of it, but I don't seem to have a copy here on my computer, even though I have pictures from the rest of that trip. It was memorable because it was only a week or two later that the Concorde blew up on takeoff from Paris. Since I can't find my mediocre picture of a Concorde sitting on a runway, In lieu of that I'll instead post this one from the very last flight of the Concorde in 2003, which is considered by some to be the very best aviation photograph of all time. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/concorde-last-flight-photo/index.html

Walking along the river in Astoria Park looking past Roosevelt Island towards Manhattan. That’s the Hellgate bridge overhead the Triborough bridge now RFK in the distance.

Unlike the English London from which it got its name, our local London has two branches of a Thames River that meet near downtown, so we have developed several riverside parks. When I was young, growing up near local London, some Canada Geese were seasonal residents, and some still are, but with recent global warming, which is happening much more rapidly in northern areas than generally in the world, many have chosen to live in and near our parks year-round, and have developed for themselves varying levels of reputation among many of the other two-legged users of the parks, many of whom, lacking wings, can't fly (except in winged, motorized cans). Haven't heard of any efforts having been made to offer a system to encourage them to deposit no longer wanted excess body weight in small designated areas when their internal body communications system indicates a need, along the line of the outhouses that humans developed to meet such bodily needs in earlier generations. Quite likely due to the certainty of persons in charge that almost earth-shaking incentives would be required, mainly in terms of offering feed, which would substantially defeat the original purpose ... plus that goose communication systems would probably attract most geese within about 100 miles. ole joyful

No snow here. It's so beautiful, but I am glad I don't have to deal with living in it. I'll just have to be contented with admiring from afar. Here's a mural I made with our playcampers back '09 - most of whom had never experienced real snow... Every year, we make loads of paper snowflakes out of coffee filters too.