Bernal Hill in the distance, with Garfield Square Park’s soccer field, both as seen from one end of Balmy Alley’s beloved row of murals aka graffiti art, viz my earlier post’s note on the graffiti-to-art continuum :-). The first of several from Balmy Alley. Thanks to Nikos for pulling me here on our last morning in SF.
I created a tag called “graffiti art” years ago, I think when I visited Melbourne for the Australian Open in 2009. Recent days have given me opportunity to appreciate the differences between graffiti (art) styles in Amsterdam and SF – wait for some of my mural photos taken on my last morning in SF, and also for some I believe I got while I was up Eureka. 🙂
Yes, we’re mixing it up for the coming weeks, as I catch up with photos taken during my recent extended trips out of Amsterdam, as well as some that I took during my hiatus in NL and elsewhere. As usual, if you’re curious what it is, there are metadata attached to each post which you’ll be able to see if you “view full blog” rather than the light phone version. This post celebrates the glorious wildflowers we saw in Texas :-).
So yes, we landed early Tuesday in Amsterdam. While I was away, the crocuses faded, the leaves remained absent from the trees (though many are strongly in bud by now), and as you see in these photos taken while walking to stay awake, the tulips are coming into their season.
We’re at the airport as I set this post up – final views of the GGB taken yesterday (below) and a week ago (above) while visiting. This’ll publish while I’m in the air, early Tuesday Amsterdam time, late Monday SF time. Cheers ’til next we see each other, folks 🙂
No, I’m not yet back in Amsterdam, but I did collect some lovely photos of the spring bloom before I left. Thanks to everyone who’s been happy to see regular posts resume, I’ve decided I’ll try to go daily again, so this is being posted as I wait to board a flight from Austin back to SFO. Next up, more of Northern California, no doubt mixed with more from this weekend’s family Texas swing along with more from A’dam, and possibly even Bangkok or Hong Kong where I stopped for work on my way over…
(so much world, so little time....) 