10 of the best: nature photographs.

Patos Island, one of Washington's San Juan Islands

Southern New Mexico’s Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks

thanks for sharing these lovely photos. I always love nature photos.

The whitebark pine, an endangered conifer, found at high altitudes in western North America.

Welcome to A2K phoebe.

Last night on St Pete Beach. A storm arrived.

Wow.

That is some photo, pan.

A triffic trio of tranquil toitles.....

Osso should like this one, being architecturistic an' all.


"Anyone wanting to live on the edge need look no further - architects have designed a cliff house. The five storey modular home is inspired by the way barnacles cling to the hull of a ship, and was developed to hang off the side of a cliff as opposed to sitting on top of it. Australian design company Modscape say the design, aptly entitled Cliff House, is a theoretical response to clients who have approached them to "explore design options for extreme parcels of coastal land in Australia". A spokesman says: "The home is visualised as a natural extension of the cliff face rather than an addition to the landscape, creating an absolute connection with the ocean.".......

limestone yeeech. Its perhaps the best sed rock for physical weathering, but the WORST when it comes to chemical eathering.
I imagine the rock bolts that hold that thing in the cliff, need to be monitored continuously. I hope the bolts are really high 318 stainless or some moly steel.
I dont think I could sleep in that place. Its only a matter of when the damn thing kisses the beach.

Quite the opposite, Lordy. I despise that stuff. I refused a job in LA that required designing involving a cantilevered pool. Asshole idea, whether or not it would somehow work. I doubt that happened, given the primary folk, but never followed it up to inquire.
I also just plain hate the Havupai glass walk over the Colorado.

My ideas re architecture may be different.

Northern Lights, 9/12/14

A wildfire rages at the Saskatchewan River Crossing in Canada’s Jasper National Park.

These all from SFgate's Day in Pictures

Just a little turbulence, folks. Nothing to worry about: A plane flies over the erupting Bardarbunga volcano as it spews lava in southeast Iceland. Bardarbunga, at 2,000 meters (6,500 feet), is Iceland's second-highest peak and is located under Europe's largest glacier, Vatnajoekull. (caption)

PHOTO BY BERNARD MERIC/AFP/GETTY IMAGES


A wildfire burns on the shore of Bass Lake, Calif. Crews were attempting to get better access to battle two raging blazes in California that have forced hundreds to evacuate their homes. (caption)

PHOTO BY DARVIN ATKESON/ASSOCIATED PRESS


Seed pods fly as an American Goldfinch helps itself to a breakfast of sunflower seeds in a field north of Creswell, Ore. (captions)

PHOTO BY CHRIS PIETSCH/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Autumn in Lithuania

Yeah, I can visualize an absolute connection with the ocean happening.

Arizona

Ice on a black-sand beach in southeastern Iceland.

London, England
A deer belling in the morning mist in Richmond Park. Tuesday marks the autumn equinox where day and night are of equal lengths
Photograph: Rob Stothard/Getty Images/via Guardian