On this late-June visit to HH, I walked all the entire way around the Aussenalster (a large lake in the center of the city, connected to the Elbe by the canal I’ve shown you in some past posts) for the first time in all the decades I’ve been visiting HH off and on. These photos all come from that walk, which lasted much of an afternoon since I took it slow and easy and relaxed :-).
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.
(so much world, so little time....) 