Both above and below, you are seeing a piece of the Berlin Wall, next to one of the more than 750,00 or so bunkers built with Albanian state funds during the Hoxha administration. Ah, the things our governments do with our tax dollars…
Though we’ve plenty of coastline here in NL, I don’t tend to get over to it often…and since I so rarely get to my deeply beloved CA coastline these days, I tend to overdo the images when I do get there, so … all of these were taken on the first day of this year in northernmost Sonoma County.
For some reason we call it clouds when it’s “in the sky” but mist or fog when it’s around ground level. Whatever we call it, here you see that essential source o’ life lying low in the valley and also up high partially blocking the view of good ol’ Mt St Helena :-).
During my lovely bike holiday in Gelderland last year, I showed you many parts of this photo from ground level. I took this photo during a December flight from Amsterdam to Doha (en route to Bangladesh, for the trip from which you’re still seeing Longest Beach photos, fyi), when I noticed the clouds had cleared enough to show me: from the left to center, the first branches of the Rhine after it enters NL (further explanations in last year’s post), and at the bottom some of the hilly landscapes of the Veluwe Zoom national park, of which we showed many posts including this one, last year. In the gallery below is a zoomed-in view that shows a bit more detail of the hilly park landscapes. Rest of the photos are all from the NL and DE parts of that flight.
Something of a love letter to the Sonoma County landscapes that feel more like home to me than most other parts of this beautiful world where I’ve lived or visited. All from a walk in early January. Probably most easily seen in “view full site” mode, if you’re on a phone or tablet, since the gallery below carries quite a few photos.
I believe this little lake was once a quarry. As seen during a morning bike ride in the Utrechtse Heuvelrug. We’ve shown you another view of this lake once before.
(so much world, so little time....) 