Menelik II of Ethiopia in his coronation robes, approx 1889.

 

Erupting Mt. Etna looks like a phoenix bird at night

 

Guard of honour by the Alexander Nevsky monument in Moscow, 1900. The monument was demolished in 1918.

 

Heh

 

Ouch! Another masterpiece

 From Steve Inman.

Warning, a little bit gruesome.  But not too bad.

Starting off the summer fire season in fine style

Just today a burn started out at Lakehead.  In this picture you can see I-5 crossing Shasta Lake, and I hear they've shut down one lane already.

This one's still pretty small, but as hot and dry as it is here, who knows.  There's a reader of this blog that lives up there, so I hope he's ok.

 This one's been named the Salt Fire.

Two that have been going a day or so are the Lava Fire and the Tennant Fire, up by Mount Shasta.  This picture makes it really look like lava flowing all around.

Read more here.

Disaster!

 

Iceland Volcano – Best Drone Footage

Your nice smile of the morning, with freckle bonus

 

Close Escape

 

It'll start...

 

Too Cute

 

Breaking Through

 

Spot the Australian surfer

 

Desensitization Therapy

 

It started well...

 

Coleman Cooler

 

Coleman Large Cooler.

Aircraft Carrier EXTREME Drifting & Donuts – USS Abraham Lincoln High-Sp...

Hailstone From April Storm Sets New Texas State Record

And I thought the golf ball sized hail I saw fall here in Redding was big.

Via Bayou Renaissance Man.

Your friendly smile of the day

 

That face when you realize it's only Tuesday

 

Bad to worse

 

Whiskers the Cat has goalie skills

 

Gorgeous

 

What happens when you put an iron ladder in a mineral spring

 

Wild Hawaii

 

Useful

 

Compact Wet/Dry Shop Vac.

Disneyland's "Space Couple," 1960s

 

Wow

 

Mugging for the crowd lost him the race

 

Shape Shifter In Process

 

Mouse Mobile

 

Eewwww!

 

Feast

 

Camo Master: Canine Edition

 

Only the lines are colored. Rest of the photo is Black and White. Zoom in for proof.

 

How to go through a roundabout with style and panache

 

Probably got back in and drove away

 

Bobby's had enough of Marsha's sarcasm.

 

That's a pretty big bear

 

Nice

 

Oops, somebody didn't engineer the bridge support for high water

 

The nautical style portholes on these machines make me smile

 

Most all around useful pocket knife, and American made.

 

Case Orange Sodbuster.

One big, watery eye

 

Dodge Madness

 

Opps

 

Extreme Exposure

 

Name the man with the beard

 

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

1931, The arrival of Graf Zeppelin to Leningrad.

 

That's one way to unload the cattle.