Mar 9th, 2017: Azure Window

xoxoxoBruce · 03-08-2017, 10:38 PM

This is The Azure Window, also known as the Dwejra Window, a 92-foot-tall (28 m) limestone natural arch on the island of Gozo in Malta,and a popular tourist destination.

Wouldn't you love to be on the beach with your arm around your lover, peering through the arch like it was a big screen to the future. Imagining the vine covered cottage with the picked fence, a cat and dog, toys and flowers scattered about?

Forget it, the arch fell down in a storm yesterday morning.

footfootfoot · 03-09-2017, 07:07 AM

This is why we can't have nice things.

Snakeadelic · 03-09-2017, 07:35 AM

That's like the third major stone feature of great fame to fall apart in recent years! One of the sandstone arches in, of course, Arches National Park collapsed of natural causes a few years ago, and a famous US east coast landmark, The Old Man of the Woods, disappeared due to a landslide rearranging the cliff face so it no longer resembles a human profile. Not to mention it hasn't been that long since The Valley of Smokes on the Kamchatka Peninsula, extremely famous for having the largest concentration of active geysers on the Ring of Fire, was two-thirds buried by an immense mudslide. I bet whoever spotted THAT mess on the satellite photos (which is the only way they knew because not only was it a World Heritage Site, it's still infested with very large bears) just about wet themselves when they realized what they were looking at.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-09-2017, 07:44 AM

"The Old Man of the Woods"
Old Man of the Mountain.

glatt · 03-09-2017, 07:47 AM

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Happy Monkey · 03-09-2017, 10:24 AM

Looks like it left a new "Old Man" (or maybe Old Woman) at the top there.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-09-2017, 12:13 PM

Good eye.

footfootfoot · 03-09-2017, 05:57 PM

Peg leg!

03-08-2017, 10:38 PM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Mar 9th, 2017: Azure Window This is The Azure Window, also known as the Dwejra Window, a 92-foot-tall (28 m) limestone natural arch on the island of Gozo in Malta,and a popular tourist destination. Wouldn't you love to be on the beach with your arm around your lover, peering through the arch like it was a big screen to the future. Imagining the vine covered cottage with the picked fence, a cat and dog, toys and flowers scattered about? Forget it, the arch fell down in a storm yesterday morning. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-09-2017, 07:07 AM	#2
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	This is why we can't have nice things. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

03-09-2017, 07:44 AM	#4
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	"The Old Man of the Woods" Old Man of the Mountain. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-09-2017, 10:24 AM	#6
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	Looks like it left a new "Old Man" (or maybe Old Woman) at the top there. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

03-09-2017, 12:13 PM	#7
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Good eye. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-09-2017, 07:35 AM	#3
Snakeadelic Banned Join Date: May 2015 Posts: 660	That's like the third major stone feature of great fame to fall apart in recent years! One of the sandstone arches in, of course, Arches National Park collapsed of natural causes a few years ago, and a famous US east coast landmark, The Old Man of the Woods, disappeared due to a landslide rearranging the cliff face so it no longer resembles a human profile. Not to mention it hasn't been that long since The Valley of Smokes on the Kamchatka Peninsula, extremely famous for having the largest concentration of active geysers on the Ring of Fire, was two-thirds buried by an immense mudslide. I bet whoever spotted THAT mess on the satellite photos (which is the only way they knew because not only was it a World Heritage Site, it's still infested with very large bears) just about wet themselves when they realized what they were looking at.

03-09-2017, 07:47 AM	#5
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	After

03-09-2017, 05:57 PM	#8
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Peg leg! __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

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