A-Z Places

[Cutesie]

The sky as seen from an airplane on Tuesday, as I flew for vacation to Florida. I don't know the locations, because Spirit doesn't have screens.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Upper Willamette River, Oregon

I find it incredible that within less than two hundred miles, the headwaters upper Willamette River:

Eventually becomes the mighty Lower Willamette River:

 

[AuAL]

Vancouver, BC, Canada

OK, the first is a view from my AirBnB room in downtown Vancouver, a bit prosaic.
The second is of a piece, the Milky Way Necklace, I saw in a nearby gallery of indigenous art, by Bill Reid. Although the Milky Way seems to have no visible connection with the Haida tradition, Reid pointed out that traditional Haida artists very often represented two or more presences which could occupy the same space at the same time in their art. He gave that Haida concept of plurality a contemporary expression in this necklace with its two main components - the wire "theme" and the pyramid "theme" - which are theoretically capable of separation.

 

[Cutesie]

Since we skipped "T", here's one:

Tunis Carthage International Airport, Tunis, Tunisia. Built with French funding in 1944, the airport, serving 7.2 million annual passengers, is located just to the west of the ancient city of Carthage.

The next contributor can continue with "W".

 

[Timelord]

Back on track after that rightful diversion.

Williamstown, Victoria - a suburb of the city of Melbourne.