Last shots of that lovely early-October evening flight from Dulles back to Schiphol. Baltimore & BWI above. These landscapes feel like home to me, call up fond memories of visits and trips with family and friends, and make me slightly homesick, even at times when the ways the federal government is using our tax dollars to the sole benefit of that very military-industrial complex against which Eisenhower warned us all make me (and hopefully many of us) deeply ashamed and morally horrified.
Sad lessons one might choose to learn about war, its consequences and the end of dynastic rule from Huis Doorn, where the second and last emperor of the short-lived late 1800’s – early 1900’s German Empire lived out his last years in exile. Such an odd notion, really, royalty, when you stop and think about it, eh? Absolute rule, too, if you ask me: bad policy, full stop.
On the screen at the left is an image of this year’s Den Bosch Carnaval Prince. (New one each year.) Adding most of the rest of my Den Bosch Carnaval photos from last month, for fun. Look for the beer-cup holder attached to a tuba, and the many frogs which are also part of the whole Den Bosch Carnaval experience 🙂
(so much world, so little time....) 