Mavic Pro footage from rescue of Rick Allen on Broad Peak captured by dr...

Incredible footage. The book on Everest that I'm reading led me to this....A man was on the Mountain K2 looking through binoculars...he saw something blue on the mountain ...and wondered...so he took his tiny drone (1.5 lbs) that he had been perfecting at high altitude and see if he could get it out to the man at a super high altitude...He wasn't sure it would work and it didn't at first ( it returned as it thought it was going to run out of power so they added another battery) They flew it out again and were able to fly over the man....and saw that he was holding on to his ice ax for fear of sliding down and off the mountain...He had been there for hours and no one knew...His team didn't have a tracker on him

so look at this video and when it sees the man, who had been there for hours, it turns around to come back and look closely...you can see the pitch, you can see how he was afraid he was going to slide off the mountain...so scary.

But they did save the man...his team walked hours and hours in to get him led by the drone...so lucky.

Why I love this type of thing, I have no idea why, but I have read many many books on dangerous climbing...I loved to read about how people live through ( or don't)  adverse situation...Why do they go there, how do they survive? 

Beautiful fields in Emilia Romagna.

This was in the Parma area. I love this part of Italy....Tuscany is just below.

 

This was a really good read...

 book 2 of this series. I don't want to read the series too fast so I break it up with other books. Great author, intriguing mystery.

Supermarket Desserts / looking only.

I think the green must pistachio , a big thing around here.

you camn just buy a slice too.

 

Morning Swim

general view....the airport is straight ahead, the piece of land sticking out in the distance.

Saturday 8am...dog parents get down to the dog beach early as it is too hot at about 11....the evening would be great and will try this upcoming week. Rune is all about it. He is obsessed with his toys...in this case, a floating boomerang called Boomer that is perfect for this situation.

 

Mixed Media

Color Jumble

Super 8

Barbed Confection ( a favorite title!)

 

Progress ...but, the color you see here is not the real color...

shot in cold light...it's much warmer. I started resolving the right side. It turned into a red tree but i'm not sure...getting closer....stone wall, a deer path through the field, sunrise colors?

 

How do they get it so green?

 Rufina, Tuscany, morning, looking west. The place I stay is way up on a hill with an amazing view. Forgive me if I have posted these before.

A few beauties still from Italy.

 

Impression, beloved poppies in Norcia.

 

From Norcia

 

Thought this was interesting.

I am not of the mind that Europeans should speak english...it's helpful but I am all for countries keeping and cherishing their cultural identity...I love different cultures...and language is part of it.

Note France and Italy are way down there. It feels to me here like very few people speak english in this region. It would mostly be people who work in the tourism industry as they have to. Also kids try to speak english, want to speak english but the schools here are about the same as schools in the US with languages...it doesn't really sink in.

 

Did you know?

I did this, walk on hot coals and in the row next to Oprah! (they had about 10 runways set up for people and I was to her left, this was in LA) 

This was back in 2011 or so.  They get you all psyched up and then go...at the end is a mat of wet moss that you stop in...I had burning for 2 days, but no scars or blisters...no mark, just burn. 

But I did it! I walked across hot coals and with Oprah. It reminds me now that there is nothing that I can't do.