Some lovely last images from the Montgomery Woods State Natural Reserve in Mendocino County…not quite yet the very last images from that April-May California swing, but getting close :-).
Taken during a Monday-afternoon walk in the same city from which we posted our very first Urban Garden post ever, back during the quiet covid lockdown days of May 2020.
Houses under construction in the little village across the water from Muiderslot, which you see in he middle distance, next to one of its defensive batteries on this side of the (Vecht is its name, if you’re curious) river. Around the time this post appears, it’s my hope I’ll be landing from the flights I signaled in a post a few months ago but wasn’t able to take due to circumstances in the destination country. So yes, Sam, I’m lining this one up early so that there’s a bit of buffer, but I hope soon to be posting close to live from the nation that gave birth to my whole “series” concept about five years ago…
The Dutch coastline at Ijmuiden, early morning May 14th, as our plane flew north – northwest across the North Sea after crossing the islands of Ireland and Great Britain on its flight path from Chicago to Amsterdam. The most common landing path I’ve experienced is up this way, sharp right turn over the land, then lining up for the runways in a more or less due-south pattern which I can watch from the windows of my apartment :-). Below, three photos taken each a bit later on the same trajectory.
Pretty sure this is the stream that flows out from Orr Hot Springs, as taken from the road during my morning walk there a few months ago. We’re nearly out of ‘county’ photos so the series will dry up unless Sam sends me a few that fit nicely. Most of the countries I visit these days don’t have administrative units that call themselves to or correlate well with the ‘county’ concept. But I’ll check a few dictionaries for translation and might determine that, for example, a Kreis in Germany can also fit this category. Hmm…
For his birthday, a dream catcher we discovered during Steve’s and my explorations in Berlin a few months ago. May all his (and your) dreams come true in the year ahead 🙂
(so much world, so little time....) 