Imagine my surprise, while up by NL’s excellent public transit network in a small town north of Amsterdam for our first team-tennis match of the season (we won 4-2, thanks very much), to see this lone California poppy brightening the sidewalk scene as a little memory of (my other) home for me :-).
Same Brussels neighborhood as the last post. Realizing how many different places I’ve been in recent months, by looking at my photo folders, is making tired in retrospect…
On the lovely garden path along the Spree, a memorial to Dr Magnus Hirschfeld & his institute for sexual sciences, destroyed (naturally) by the Nazis in WWII…
Above, Boston’s waterfront early one morning; below, the coastline across Cape Cod Bay at Provincetown later that day, with the Pilgrim Monument visible in above the dunes.
This scale model of a ship is perhaps the main attraction of Provincetown’s lovely public library, whose exterior we showed you in the last post of this series.
There’s a degree of honor on my side and trust on yours about these urban and country canal categories: the one above was taken one evening when I went for a walk by my apartment after work, while the one below, much more clearly urban in nature, is on my bike ride home from where I play tennis, which is a now a very different path than the Schinkeleilandenpark bike path which I used to photograph a lot, going and coming from tennis.
Above, the entrance to Borkum’s Heimatmuseum (a local history museum with quite a lot on its 19th-century whaling history, including a large skeleton of a sperm whale hanging in the main hall quite dramatically); below, the interior staircase built into the old water tower, which now houses its own museum of water and wetlands, from which I took photos you’ve seen in past posts, but of whose tower from outside I apparently failed to take any photos. Sorry.
That’s part of the port of Rotterdam (which we showed you from afar in at least one prior post almost exactly a year ago), as seen from above late Thursday on my return flight from Geneva. (Whence that last photo of two rivers merging with very dramatically differently colored water, and a mountain emerging from the clouds in the distance. Yes, I finally got closer to some very legitimate mountains for a few days this past week, so the upcoming mountains posts will be less questionable than one or two of the other recent ones. And indeed, the need to get some mountains photos into my folders got me out early for a walk along Geneva’s lovely lake both mornings I awoke there, so look for those pics also in upcoming posts.)
Approach to the Isles of Shoals, with most of them visible and Star Island the one with the while buildings, seen closer up below. Always a joy to get back out there, this year for the first time since before covid. 🙂
(so much world, so little time....) 