Above, the piece of the southeastern coast of England, and below 15 minutes later with the Dutch coast dimly visible behind many offshore wind turbines. All from mid-May’s return to A’dam after the US weeks.
The days around the solstice brought spectactular sunsets from my apartment. This was nearly 11pm on the 22nd of June :-). I must cherish this, when we’re six months on and I’m winter-depressed again…
There are two islands in this photo of the canal / moat that surrounds the lovely Noord Brabant town of Heusden, where I spent a week at the start of July. More to come from those evening after-workday-from-home walks.
Since I’m scheduled shortly to be flying off again for very distant parts for work reasons, I thought I’d fondly remember another of these lovely moments as our plane gained altitude after departing from my beloved spiritual-home airport of SFO. If you follow the line of the lower fin on the plane’s tail, I’m pretty sure it’s Mt St Helena that you’ll see as a bump on the far horizon.
Above: early Sunday along the Aussenalster (Outer Alster) in Hamburg; below, a view of some of the later swimmers in the Binnenalster (Inner Alster) in the first leg of the HH triathlon. I was just out for a walk before heading for the train home to A’dam after a short visit with family / friends :-). The weather was much more conducive to lovely photos than it was the last time I walked (and showed you) these shores.
Queen Louise of Prussia was very much loved indeed, judging by the many monuments and memorials to her, and the flowers I saw by some of them. Above and below left, in the Tiergarten; below center on an island in Charlottenburg castle gardens and below right her mausoleum in another part of the castle gardens. We’ve got *lots* more fun stuff from those gardens stored up for you…think royal cherubs and such 🙂
(so much world, so little time....) 