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This is the first time I’ve ever saw a rainbow be formed. I can’t believe I caught it in action. 😁😁😁😁Custer State Park, ...
04/29/2026

This is the first time I’ve ever saw a rainbow be formed. I can’t believe I caught it in action. 😁😁😁😁
Custer State Park, South Dakota

Custer State Park feels like a winter wonderland right now. The bison are out slowly roaming. Plenty of deer feed on the...
04/28/2026

Custer State Park feels like a winter wonderland right now. The bison are out slowly roaming. Plenty of deer feed on the side of the road but even when they don’t they stick out against the white snow. Little does the wildlife know that their quiet retreat is about to get very busy. I feel sorry for them but I also know that the tourism is what helps them to survive. I feel blessed to be here to see all that’s about to unfold. 😁

Well from 80 degrees to 31. This is what I woke up to this morning. It’s still snowing. 4.7 inches so far. 😳😳😳😳😳Custer S...
04/24/2026

Well from 80 degrees to 31. This is what I woke up to this morning. It’s still snowing. 4.7 inches so far. 😳😳😳😳😳
Custer State Park, South Dakota.

Just another day at the office. Custer State Park, South Dakota.
04/16/2026

Just another day at the office. Custer State Park, South Dakota.

Hopped a train to London this evening. Big Ben, Westminster Bridge, and the Thames river. Then the Eye of London and Wat...
03/14/2026

Hopped a train to London this evening. Big Ben, Westminster Bridge, and the Thames river. Then the Eye of London and Waterloo Clock. That thing is huge.

Close= alleywayEdinburgh has over 250 closes, with most of them located in the Old Town that run along both sides of the...
03/14/2026

Close= alleyway

Edinburgh has over 250 closes, with most of them located in the Old Town that run along both sides of the Royal Mile. A 'close' is a narrow alleyway or passage, often leading off the main street into courtyards or between buildings. Closes in Edinburgh exist because of how the city developed during the medieval period-credit to The History of Edinburgh’s Closes.

There is another function for a close and why you want to know what they are for. Edinburgh has some very steep streets to go up. You should wear your hiking boots if you come here. The other function for the close is to shorten your climb to another street-it acts a cut through so you don’t have to climb that whole street.

If you don’t know about them-see those stairs? That is what you will be doing instead or the steep streets. When you look at some of my pictures, the pictures don’t look straight. They are but it’s the road that is not level. That’s how Edinburgh is built.

One of the things that I have been collecting photos of is the pillar boxes(post office boxes)of the Royal Mail. It’s no...
02/21/2026

One of the things that I have been collecting photos of is the pillar boxes(post office boxes)of the Royal Mail. It’s not been that easy because Queen Elizabeth ll was on the throne for 70 years. Whoever is the reigning monarch at the time a pillar box is installed has their initials on it.

The first one I photographed was one for Queen Elizabeth ll. After I took the picture, I saw the initials had an ‘R’ in them. I was thinking how odd it was that the Crown put her middle initial on the box because I knew that wasn’t her surname because Prince Philip’s last name was Mountbatten. He adopted a modified version of his family’s name.

So, I started digging and found something interesting. Elizabeth’s initials on the box are E ll R. That stands for Elizabeth ll Regina. That seemed even more odd, but I kept digging and learned that the name ‘Regina’ is the Latin word for Queen. Same with the Kings. Her father was Georgius VI Rex. Rex is the Latin word for King.

It seems that royal marriages don’t follow the same traditional rules as we do for marriages. A king or queen doesn’t really have a surname. When Elizabeth was born, her birth certificate identified her by her given names which were Elizabeth Alexandra Mary. Unless official documents require a surname, Royals don’t use them but she was from the House of Windsor so the surname would have been Windsor. This surname is not on her birth certificate. Growing up she was called Princess Elizabeth of York because her daddy was Prince Albert, Duke of York before he became King George Vl because his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated the throne to marry Wallis Simpson. Trust me when I say that England dodged a bullet there.

There is a twist though. Queen Elizabeth ll and Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, in 1960, decided that a surname was needed for their descendants. For Prince Phillip, is was a sensitive subject because his name would not be carried forward unless royal traditions changed. Queen Elizabeth was from The House of Windsor. Prince Phillip’s surname was Mountbatten so the surname became Windsor-Mountbatten. All of their children use that surname when needed for official documents. So, King Charles lll children are called————>
Prince William Arthur Philip Louis Windsor-Mountbatten
Prince Henry Charles Albert David Windsor-Mountbatten
Harry is short for Henry. So, this is as far as I’m going to go with this because it’s gets deep. I didn’t list Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillips children’s names because it would have taken too long.

I will put captions under the pictures so you will know what you are looking at. There is one very rare pillar box in this bunch so look for it. There are five generations here. Enjoy.

One of the things I’ve been wanting to do was go to the Warner Brothers Studio here in London. Well, I got that chance a...
02/12/2026

One of the things I’ve been wanting to do was go to the Warner Brothers Studio here in London. Well, I got that chance and I did not realize what I was stepping into.

I’m a Harry Potter fan. This tour was The Making of Harry Potter. I had no idea that this studio was a major movie studio that has produced films other than Harry Potter that have made billions over the years. The HP movies alone brought in 7.7 billion globally. And that is not even counting the books and merch.

It was so different to see what went into the production of the film like what it took to design a set, the costumes, makeup artist, the architects, and builders, and on and on. It was mind blowing. I spent five hours easy in this tour. It was such an eye opener.

The pictures I took are not even the tip of the iceberg of what this tour was about or how all this stuff was made. I was Gobsmacked by the logistics alone. There was no way to translate to you how big this operation is. I’ll put some captions under some of the pictures.

I asked ChatGapt what other movies had been made here so he gave me this list. These major major block buster movies. I have such a whole new respect for the people who make us movies we love and the actors. The three main characters were only 11-13yo when they stared this film and they grew up on these sets. It ran for 11 years. It especially touched me listening to how they all became a family through the making of these movies.

Movies that have been made at this studio per ChatGPT-

Movies shot at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden:

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part I (2010)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part II (2011)
GoldenEye (1995)
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Die Another Day (2002)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)
Wonka (2023)
Barbie (2023)
Meg 2: The Trench (2023)
The Flash (2023)
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Cats (2019)
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)

I have a lot of random historical places that I photographed while in Scotland. I returned to Cambridge 2 days ago and I...
02/06/2026

I have a lot of random historical places that I photographed while in Scotland. I returned to Cambridge 2 days ago and I sure miss Scotland.

Anyway, I’ll be putting out those photos in the next few days I’ll try to put captions under the pictures but some won’t have any. I love old architecture, especially if it’s historical, and that’s why I took many of them. I wanted to show everyone what a 1000yo city looked like.

This is what I love about the UK and the EU is that they preserve their heritage. Rather than make ya’ll strain your eyes trying to read the brass plague, I’ve already wrote it out below. This place has an interesting past.

I ate here my last night and it was pretty good. Boy though, the Scots love to put Haggis in everything! I have some stuff coming for Outlander fans. See, this right here is why I love to venture out. You learned and run across all kinds of things. I wasn’t going in the back part. Nope! I didn’t want anything attaching itself to me. Hope ya’ll enjoy.

TOLLBOOTH TAVERN

The Tollbooth Tavern is part of the original Canongate Tollbooth, which was built in 1591.

The building was used to collect tolls from travellers entering the burgh, but has also served as a council chamber, police court, and prison. The prison was tenanted by those who suffered in the cause of liberty and many of its captives were wrongly detained and brutally treated.

A suspected warlock was thought to have been exorcised here by the lay successor to the abbots of Holyrood, Sir Lewis Bellenden. The unfortunate soul was so terrified by the fierce preacher that he is said to have died of fright soon after the experience.

In 1654, Oliver Cromwell’s guard detained several Scottish enemies of the state in the building, but the Tollbooth’s walls could not hold them, and they made their escape using strips of blankets as ropes, lowering themselves to freedom from the upper floor.

The Covenanters were also imprisoned in the Tollbooth cells between 1661 and 1688.

Many of the prisoners were sent to the plantations of the Caribbean for seven years’ hard labour. After this period, they could return to Scotland or remain in the colony. However, before their departure, all the captives were marked so they could not escape their past. Women had their faces branded with an iron, while men had an ear chopped off.

The rear section of the pub was originally built as housing in c.1750 and was still used for this purpose into the early 20th century. While this area of the establishment is not as old as the front, many people find it the most eerie and have claimed to feel a presence.

The front area became a tavern in 1820, with the rear area following suit some hundred years later, and it has traded in this fashion up to the present day.

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