Photo of the Day (6-24-09)


With the heat of summer, a cool breeze is welcome. This photo of a sailboat jib captures that carefree quality of escaping heat and having time on one’s hands to enjoy a gorgeous day. Gadling’s own Willy Volk recently snapped this one in the Virgin Islands. Must be tough, but someone’s gotta do it. I particularly like the way the landscape in the background gives a hint at the location and how the blue stripe of the sail works along with the sky and the ocean in a study of blue. Read Willy’s post on Maho Bay Camps in St. John here.

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Photo of the Day (2-18-09)

This has been one of those days when a photo like this one is a balm for the nerves. No, nothing bad—just sped up. Willy Volk, who took this shot on the Lake Worth bridge, said that he’s been seeing sunsets like this one over the past few nights. The treeline does say Florida.

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Photo of the Day (05/05/08)

Meet me at the corner of Spiritualist and Mediumship. This address pretty much describes the state of mind of everyone I know.

I’d love to meet the person, who makes up the street names in Cassadaga, Florida. He/she really seems to take the job to the next level. How is the real estate market down there? What about the house on Mothership St and Atheist way?

Great find by Willy Volk.

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Photo of the day (02/25/08)

One of the gems from Willy Volk’s fisheye photography collections for your viewing pleasure. This one, “From the Gold Dust,” was taken in San Francisco last month. I like the gold-ish tint, very apropos!

Because everything here is pretty much in focus, it is safe to assume that Willy came to this watering hole for research purposes only.

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Mail A Postcard from Underground: Carlsbad Caverns

Willy ‘s post on underwater mailboxes reminded me of my own experience mailing postcards at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico. At the end of the tour, before you head up the elevator to the surface, you can buy a postcard, write a “Wish you were here missive,” affix a postage stamp and drop it in a U.S. mailbox. There’s an ink pad and message stamp so you can add, “Mailed at 750 feet underground.”

Since Carlsbad is a wet cave, I seem to remember a certain dampness about this endeavor. Mailing a postcard isn’t the only thing you can do underground at Carlsbad. There’s a restaurant/snack bar as well.

Mailing a postcard and eating lunch underground aren’t really the reasons to head here; the caverns are enough. In the summer, if you stick around until dusk, you can watch the hundreds of Mexican free-tailed bats swarm out of the cave’s entrance. These bats are what tipped off, cowboy Jim White in 1901 that there was something unusual in the distance. He thought he was seeing smoke.

For someone else’s account of mailing postcards, check out Carlsbad Caverns National Park on Tour of America Airstream Life’s Web site.