Indeed, right inside the city of Amsterdam but in the lovely park I’ve been showing you since I moved to my new place last year :-). Above, looking west one evening last week and below, looking east from the same foot / bike bridge over the canal. For orientation, in the photo below, the apartment from which I’ve taken all the various photos of this lovely lovely lake would be on the far side of the lake and to the left a bit (northeast).
Before its residents voted to incorporate the lovely town of Weesp into the City of Amsterdam, I’m not sure I could have chosen to categorize the canals you’ll see in each of the photos in this post as “urban,” especially when you consider the lovely little images of coot parents building their nest in two of the photos below. But … a part of the city of Amsterdam Weesp now is, so here you see some of it’s “urban” canals and other delights.
Montgomery Woods State Natural Reserve in Mendocino County, California where I spent a lovely morning exploring the redwoods and other trees, creeks, trunks and stumps.
If your browser loads this as I hope, you’ll see one large photo above that shows Lake Tahoe at the top (north) and the snowy Sierra Nevadas below it; one large photo at the bottom which looks back west and north across the arid western Nevada landscape, to Lake Tahoe and the Sierras. And in between, ten photos I took during the six minutes that elapsed as our plane flew across the Sierra Nevadas, leaving behind California and beginning its flight across Nevada.
Certainly from a Dutch perspective, we can call that a mountain. All seen from the train between A’dam and Berlin when I returned in early July for a week of work. What I didn’t manage to photograph b/c it went by too fast and I wasn’t paying attention was a remarkable mountaintop memorial to Emperor Wilhlem in the interestingly-named Lower Saxony town of Porta Westfalica. I simply must get off the train there, some day…
Before its residents voted to incorporate the lovely town of Weesp into the City of Amsterdam, I’m not sure I could have chosen to categorize the canals you’ll see in each of the photos in this post as “urban,” especially when you consider the lovely little images of coot parents building their nest in two of the photos below. But … a part of the city of Amsterdam Weesp now is, so here you see some of it’s “urban” canals and other delights.
If your browser loads this as I hope, you’ll see one large photo above that shows Lake Tahoe at the top (north) and the snowy Sierra Nevadas below it; one large photo at the bottom which looks back west and north across the arid western Nevada landscape, to Lake Tahoe and the Sierras. And in between, ten photos I took during the six minutes that elapsed as our plane flew across the Sierra Nevadas, leaving behind California and beginning its flight across Nevada.
(so much world, so little time....) 