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Village Views.66

More from our August outing to Star Island, which we’ve been sharing with you off and on since our first visit there (as an adult) in 2009. These photos were taken less than 75 minutes apart – above looking at the solar array around 7:48, below, gulls on the roof of the generator house around 9 the same morning, presumably as I was heading back for more sits after breakfast.

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Country Canals.56


City Lights.46


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Islands.46


From the Air.36

Penang Island from the mainland: above, as seen on 29th of November as we neared our landing; below, as seen during my flight from Kuala Lumpur to Yangon on the 6th of December.

Mountains.26

Two different neighborhoods of KL, where usually there are mountains to be seen somewhere.

Ah, Royalty.16

Parc Royal in Brussels again – I didn’t get to the royal palace in KL, nor did I even remember to take out my camera to photograph the royal customs sign at the KL airport on my way out. I must get myself with camera to one of the many royal palaces in NL soon, or this cute little series will run dry…

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Urban Entrances.116


Small Wonders.216

Flowers in the Dublin suburbs. On this first trip, I got no closer than this to the city itself.

City Views.216

This was my first Irish rainbow, after we’d driven from the airport in Dublin out to our hotel near Galway, dropped our stuff, then headed in for a walk around downtown Galway. We parked at the cathedral parking lot, the rain started, we began walking over the salmon weir bridge and the sun poked out to create a welcoming rainbow. Typical Ireland, it seems 🙂

County Views.126


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County Views.125


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From the Air.35


Islands.45

Some views of late-summer dawn over Gosport Harbor, taken from Star Island and showing both Cedar Island and a part of Smuttynose Island as well. A small celebration of the fact that at home in northern Europe, we’ve nearly reached that yearly solstice corner where the number of minutes each day on which the sun is above our horizon will start increasing again, for the next six months at least 🙂

City Lights.45

Place du Luxembourg in Brussels by night, with I believe some of the European Parliament complex shown here.