A couple pause on a park bench in Green Park, just outside the Canada Gate to Buckingham Palace.

The cliff facing Bridalveil Falls from the other side of Bridalveil Meadow.

A view of two of the defining landmarks of the valley from Tunnel View, on the way into the valey from Badger Pass. El Capitan is the rockface on the left.

Icicles form along a road-cut, on the road into Yosemite Valley from Badger Pass.

An inhorn with black ink, a small bottle of red ink, a bamboo pen (ba’ar), and a piece of tile used for rubbing the parchment surface before scribing all sit in their places on a wooden inkstand, in the home of a scribe in Adgrat, Tigray Province, Ethiopia.

Ashmelas WoldeGabriel writes a small sample book in the traditional way, using a bamboo pen and resting the parchment quire against his knee, while seated on a short stool.

An ice abstract, the full-sized version aspected for use as a background image for a widescreen computer. Full-sized version.