Photo of the day

[DS]

Really? Looks like a bunch of roofs with a dusting of snow on them.

 

[texan]

Plosky Tolbachik volcano erupted in Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Nov. 29.
The volcano, located on the peninsula's eastern coast, is erupting for the first time in
36 years, according to The Associated Press.

 

[texan]

The Thai royal guard celebrate King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 85th birthday.

 

[texan]

Migratory birds fly above men rowing a boat on the Yamuna river in the old quarters of Delhi.

 

[texan]

Pearl Harbor survivor Ed Kmiec, 95, salutes upon departing the USS De Wert after a ceremony remembering
the 71st anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor aboard the USS De Wert at the Naval Station Mayport
in Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 7.

 

[texan]

Jets are grounded at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam as snow and high winds disrupt traffic.

 

[texan]

A Brocken Railway train steams through snow covered pine trees as it approaches its destination on the
Brocken Mountain in the Harz mountain range, Germany, on Dec. 8 2012

 

[texan]

An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish boy lights the third Hanukkah candle inside his house during the Jewish holiday of
Hanukkah in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood, on Dec. 10. Hanukkah, also known as the
Festival of Lights, is one of the most important Jewish holidays and is celebrated by Jews worldwide
during eight days to commemorate the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem at the time
of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BC.

 

[serenity now]

A Brocken Railway train steams through snow covered pine trees as it approaches its destination on the
Brocken Mountain in the Harz mountain range, Germany, on Dec. 8 2012

the real Polar Express

 

[moreluck]

The choo-choo in the snow would make an awfully hard jig saw puzzle. I wouldn't want to tackle it !!

 

[rod]

The choo-choo in the snow would make an awfully hard jig saw puzzle. I wouldn't want to tackle it !!

you would get it all together and one piece would be missing.

 

[moreluck]

you would get it all together and one piece would be missing.

And it would be a white one !!

 

[texan]

The pieces that make up the giant spire that will sit atop the World Trade Center's tallest building
arrived in New York City on Tuesday.

A barge carried nine pieces of the 408-foot steel spire across New York Harbor
from New Jersey's Port Newark.

 

[texan]

Tourists cross the Titlis Cliff Walk in the Swiss Alps, the highest rope bridge in Europe, at an altitude
of 9,977 feet on Dec. 12, in central Switzerland.
The bridge, which crosses a 1,640 foot-deep abyss, will be officially opened on Dec. 15

 

[texan]

Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend of The Who perform at "12-12-12" a concert benefiting The Robin Hood
Relief Fund to aid the victims of Hurricane Sandy presented by Clear Channel Media & Entertainment, The
Madison Square Garden Company and The Weinstein Company at Madison Square Garden on
December 12, 2012 in New York City.

 

[serenity now]

Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend of The Who perform at "12-12-12" a concert benefiting The Robin Hood
Relief Fund to aid the victims of Hurricane Sandy presented by Clear Channel Media & Entertainment, The
Madison Square Garden Company and The Weinstein Company at Madison Square Garden on
December 12, 2012 in New York City.

button the shirt, dude

 

[texan]

A flag at the U.S. Capitol flies at half-staff in honor of the Connecticut school shooting
victims in Washington D.C., Dec. 14.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Graduation Day!

 

[texan]

Reuters
Mount Lokon spews volcanic ash during an eruption in Tomohon in Indonesia's North Sulawesi
province on December 17, 2012.

 

[Catatonic]

Reuters
Mount Lokon spews volcanic ash

That's some serious toking by Lokon.