Perito Moreno Glacier <posted on Earth Day 2009>

@Linda: It sure felt like a sauna. I was born in the South of the US - where humidity was common - and I remember feeling almost too hot to pass out. We were pouring all the water we had on our daughter to keep her cool. She was hot. Do you have a suggestion for matting color for the middle photo?

@Linerberry: Thanks Linerberry. Thanks for dropping by. I love your consistency about posting to blogs. Well done.

@Marie :-);: I am glad the blog is becoming conversational for you; and I must agree that you have outstanding taste if we selected the same blog entry for a photo of the day. As about wisdom, well, not so sure - but I express what I see and feel.

@Sarah: We didn't need to start color coding Olivia red until Will showed up 11 months after Olivia. She wears pink pullip diapers today. Olivia was 10 months old when she left the country for a 24 hour flight each way to Patagonia (our only child at the time), and Tricia was 7 months pregnant. I guess we don't let things get in the way of our family vacations.

@Magda: The contrasts between the hot day, and cool ice was the image I was going for - glad it worked for you. The glacier was actually about 200 meters away for the first photo with Los Notros - they are just so massive, it looks nearby. Hope you can enjoy the place vicariously through these photos.

@xavier cardell: Gracias Xavier. These shots are from five years back, and I have learned a great deal technically since then - but seemed I had a natural knack for basic composition back then. I'd love to go back, and re-take some of these photos now I have learned so much in the last few years.

@Mirza Ahmad: Palpable is a great description of the extremes that day. I am glad the triptych captured that. Thanks for the kind review today.

@Marie-Hélène Ammor: I felt rushed on putting this together, as I realized that I should do something yesterday. Glad it worked for you. Our world is too beautiful not to take care of, and nurture.

@Lorraine: Thanks Lorraine. Your words are so kind. Nature paints a grand subject for us to admire and photograph.

@Ajay: Thank you Ajay. I loved your photos of the beach/water/friends today. Very beautiful and wonderful message.

@Peter Frank: Thanks Peter. Appreviate you dropping a note that you dropped by and liked the triptych.

@DaveB: Earth Day was established in 1970 - it takes a great deal for something to wake up the masses : yet, if we ignore the potential dangers, then it's all of our losses. Every little bit we all do can increase the awareness of the earth's beauty, and how fragile it is if we don't care for it. Thanks for your kind post today on the images.

@observing: It's a fantastic trip to Perito Moreno, if you ever get the chance. There is an international airport at El Calafate, and it's an hour bus ride from there to the Glacier. I have heard you can fly from Buenos Aires to El Calafate, bus to see Perito Moreno, and return to Bs As. the same day: and I believe it. It's a fantastic place that I wanted to see while I could travel and enjoy it.

@Susan: Re: VXFY, I donated $10 - these blogs need cash to keep operating. I figure if I use them, I should help pay for them. Glad you like the triptych - I'm trying not to do these often, as they do jar one, when you click on a thumbnail, and get a different picture than you expect: but in this case, it told the story I wanted.

@Barbara: Thank you Barbara for your ideas on matboard - I'm about to settle on a 16x20 mat, 8-ply, with a 8x8 square justified to the top (4" from sides and 4" from top, 8" from bottom). Frame Destinations will do an online order with custom sized cuts. I believe that a wide black will really accent the reds in the middle photo. I will see. If not, I keep it for another day. Olivia and I both treasure the bottom photo. Another keeper from that trip is a photo os Olivia eating the first meat she ever ate in her life - patagonia lamb cooked over an open flame within site of the glaciers at the Estancia Helsingfors.

@Virgil: It was a fantastic memory. Of course, traveling with a toddler, and a seven month pregnant wife means little sleep - and being in a world where I didn't speak the language, and not in a metropolitan area - meant I pretty much grunted what I needed : but, it was a fond memory- and I'd definitely go back if I could.

@john4jack: My family are locavores ourselves. We have fantastic produce in the San Francisco Bay Area: and have it delivered to our home weekly, including raw milk, cheese, fresh whole foods (vegetables, and fruits). For church, I have been attending my wife's catholic church at St. Simons in Los Altos. When I do get a chance to go to the Episcopal parish, it's St. Timothy's in Mountain View. As I married a Catholic in the Catholic church - I agreed to raise the children Catholic: and I prefer to attend mass with the kids and wife. Corvalis is a beautiful town: must be wonderful this time of year.

@ordinaryimages: Or, as I say: love the one you're with. If you don't have a camera nearby most of the time, are you really a photographer?

@dj.tigersprout: Thank you DJ - I loved the glaciers in Patagonia. So different from those at Glacier National Park, or Yellowstone/Tetons.