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Urban Entrances.78

We spent a few nights and days in Hamburg with friends last week, enjoying lovely ballet performances at night and the sights of the city during the day.

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Urban Garden.168


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City Views.188


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Small Wonders.188


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Urban Canals.138


Urban Canals.137

Both images taken from the same place, facing different directions (west, above; east, top).

Country Canals.37

The first of many photos we’ll be sharing from Paleis Het Loo, a national museum and royal palace in eastern NL. Interesting concept, royal palaces in a democracy, eh? 🙂

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Islands.27


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City Lights.27


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Village Views.47


Urban Entrances.77

The interior entrance I mentioned in a prior post 🙂

From The Air.7

Looking west from California’s central valley towards Snow Mountain Wilderness & the various reservoirs and natural lakes on the eastern slopes and foothills of that range of mountains, not long after my last take-off from SF in early April.

Mountains.7

Since the last sequence celebrated the northern summer at its peak, I decided we’d give you a serious change of pace by celebrating snow-capped peaks in those lovely mountains of northern Iraq that we’ve been showing you. It might also provide a wee bit of mental coolness to anyone sweating through a lovely but hot long northern summer day :-). These won’t be your last views of those dramatic mountains in this series, but they’re just about all of them in which I could discern at least a dusting of snow somewhere in the frame of the photo. Ah, and one note: to put such large photo galleries up with an interesting layout, I use a different interface which the blog’s host has re-allowed us to use on occasion. However, if you’re viewing this on a small screen it’s quite likely your interface will mess it up pretty thoroughly, so if you’re only seeing one or two photos, try again when you’re back on a larger-sized computer screen if you’re interested. Enjoy.

Urban Garden.167

Last of our current ten-post special series from Amsterdam’s Open Garden Days, so we’ll get back to our regularly-scheduled, numbered entries from multiple series now :-). Hope you’ve enjoyed all these glimpses of gardens in Amsterdam. There are still about twenty photos left in this folder, from five gardens which I haven’t yet even shown you. So plenty more to come. Perhaps yet another special sequence after I work through another cycle of the various other series. Hmmmmmm….


Urban Garden.166

Same garden as the last two posts. I spent a lovely bit of time sitting on a shaded bench, watching others come and go, and considering angles from which to take all these photos I’ve been sharing with you. The house itself was fascinating and in undergoing some renovation. There was an interior doorway of which I also simply had to take a photo. We’ll see if I remember to tell you that it came from here, whenever its turn pops up in the Urban Entrances series 🙂