Venice Canal on Arrival.

This is my way of moving past Venice, Italy with a look at my first views along the Grand Canal heading for Lido, Italy.

The light was perfect and all my photos were amazing to me. This was after being up for 32 hours with a cat nap.

Sky Watch Season # 4 Episode # 39

Sky Watch Friday This is the place. Please check out the site and link in if you wish to participate. There were a lot of people with beautiful Sky photos last week. You can link in from my side bar or at the start of this post. You can link at 3:00 PM EDT on Thursdays. SWF is run by Klaus, Wren, Sandy, Sylvia and myself.

I thought I would show some more shots as we leave the Venice Grand Canal headed for Lido, Italy. Here is a ferry that we rode in to Lido.

We ended with a golden sunset. It made the photography so easy.

You can see the city of Venice skyline at the bottom of the screen.

You can see a lot of great sky photos above.

Header Competition # 26 - Sports

The header theme this week by Tom and is "Sports". Mac,Tom, Darla, Martha, Gail's Man and I have a little contest to show a new theme header each week.

My sport is fishing and Tom was kind after all my travels to make it an easy post. I showed this Large Mouth Bass before but this is a second photo. Note the line wrapped up in hook on the plug.

Mr. Wiskers was quite the fighter. A 2009 Fish Ohio Channel Catfish.

This was a fish that bit off more then it could chew. Mr. Crappie tried to swallow this Bluegill whole in one bite. To think my wifes says I eat too fast. 

This was my 2009 Fish Ohio Walleye from Lake Hodgson.

The beauty of the lake can be seen in the early morning. I enjoy the sport of fishing and also the beauty of nature.

My final choice was trolling across Lake Hodgson in the morning light.

My World Tuesday Season # 2 Episode # 26

This is my posting for the My World Meme. It is hosted by Klaus, Sandy, Wren,  Sylvia and myself. Won't you join in, I want to see where you live and thrive.

These are some photos of my Europe trip. We landed in Milan and took a bus to Verona. You must visit Juliet's balcony while there. Italy is amazing.

A trip is not complete without seeing a castle and its bridge. This is made more special with the fly fisherman.

We then headed for Venice and what a ferry trip to Lido as the Sun was setting.

It was night when we settled at Lido and this marvelous structure was lit.

A trip to Venice must include seeing the Rialto Bridge and the gondolas.

There is so much to see I will have to share more later.

Today's Flowers # 87

My friend Luiz from Brazil does the Today's Flowers Meme, check it out. Come and join with your flower photos. Sunday at 2 GMT is the post time. I send out a Happy Easter wish to all my visitors.

This are some flowers I saw on my Europe trip they came in red, purple and yellow. Primrose is the flowers name, thanks for the help. 

They used them in a lot of planters.

The red ones were quite showy.

But the purple ones were precious.

You can see a lot of great flowers above.


Coming soon - Arriving at Venice in near perfect lighting.

Camera Critters # 104 - Happy 2nd Birthday

Camera Critters by Misty Dawn, go here to see who's participating.

Just got back from Europe on Thursday and took some time zone recovery time. Thought I would share a few critter shots I took for the Birthday celebration. I call this one "Pigeon on Marble" from a plaza in Verona, Italy. This is a very majestic bird.

Here is a seagull over twin towers in Venice, Italy.

Here are a pair of Magpies from on the bus trip to Wurzburg, Germany. These are the first I've ever seen.

It was a great trip with many more photos to come.