Photo of the day

[texan]

IN THE MIST: Women used paddleboards in the waters off Copacabana Beach in Rio
de Janeiro Sunday. (Pilar Olivares/Reuters)

 

[texan]

A women walks past the Orthodox Svyato-Nikolsky church in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk
which is having a cold spell. -22 degrees.

 

[Catatonic]

A women walks past the Orthodox Svyato-Nikolsky church in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk
which is having a cold spell. -22 degrees.

Good follow picture from the ocean paddlers the day before.

 

[texan]

The seven-foot-tall number "13," to be used atop One Times Square, arrives outside the Times Square Museum
and Visitor Center in New York, on Dec 19.
The numbers will be on display at the Museum until December 26th, at which point they will be
installed atop One Times Square.

 

[texan]

Waves crash into the sea wall at Seaham Harbor in the north-east of England as parts of the UK brace
for further flooding as bands of rain move across the area.

 

[texan]

Sandy Claus" Michael Sciaraffo makes a toy delivery to a home in the Bell Harbor neighborhood of New York
on Dec. 18, 2012.
Using Facebook, Sciaraffo started a charitable enterprise to collect and personally deliver toys to children
affected by Superstorm Sandy.

 

[texan]

Six Flags Discovery Kingdom’s newest edition, five baby African Penguins, two male and three female, all
born at the park between 45 to 60 days ago, will be introduced to the adult population in 2-3 weeks in
Vallejo, California, on December 19, 2012. UPI/Ken James

 

[texan]

A frozen view of Lochan na h-Achlaise, Rannoch Moor, Scotland, as temperatures dropped as low as -14C
Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

 

[texan]

A resident clears snow from his driveway after an overnight snowfall left many schools and businesses
closed for the day, in Urbandale, Iowa

 

[texan]

A baby Japanese Macaque, or snow monkey, eats during a snowfall at a wildlife zoo in Hefei, Anhui province
December 26, 2012.

 

[texan]

At dawn a jet lands at an airport in Rio de Janeiro where the temperature was already 81 degrees.
On Wednesday a new heat record of 110 was set for the city.

 

[texan]

A full moon rises behind the Empire State Building and the skyline of New York, as people watch from a park
along the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey, Friday December 28, 2012.

 

[moreluck]

Hoboken is Coco's neighborhood!!

 

[texan]

The setting sun illuminates the sky above the towers of Michaelsberg monastery in Bamberg, Germany, Dec. 29

 

[serenity now]

The setting sun illuminates the sky above the towers of Michaelsberg monastery in Bamberg, Germany, Dec. 29

tomorrow should be a really good day there

 

[texan]

This picture of Reine in Nordland, Norway, taken by Robert Prentice.

 

[texan]

Fireworks explode from Taiwan's tallest skyscraper, the Taipei 101, during New Year celebrations in
Taipei on Jan. 1, 2013. The Chinese characters read 'Taiwan.'

 

[texan]

A Marine sentry stands guard, indicating that President Obama is working in the West Wing of the
White House, as discussions regarding the fiscal cliff continue on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 1.

 

[texan]

A Great White Pelican catches a fish in his pond in Dresden Zoo, Germany.

 

[rod]

A Marine sentry stands guard, indicating that President Obama is working in the West Wing of the
White House, as discussions regarding the fiscal cliff continue on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 1.

I think the guard is just outside smoking a cigarette and Barry's work consits of telling his help what he wants packed for his vaca to Hawaii.