Turns out I skipped Urban Garden on the last cycle: such things happen when I try to keep up with daily posts while traveling. Or maybe I knew that once I got home I’d have lovely shots like this, from Kuala Lumpur’s remarkable Botanic Garden, which I visited Saturday morning before flying home that night. These are all taken from or of the lovely and fun “Bamboo Playhouse” – which is not a theater but a house for kids (of all ages, if you count me) to play in – as you see from the sign below :-).
Just about all my remaining photos from KL. As this morning’s post of winter sunlight on grass seed-heads in my neighborhood last Friday showed, I’m still getting out when there’s a bit of sun and slowly adding 2024 pics as well…but we will soon take a break, I think, once I just get more of the 2023 backlog splashed here on the blog.
Sticking with my theme of using up more of 2023’s photos before taking my break, herewith all the remaining from-the-air shots of 2023. They’re in chronological order, so you first see my plane passing over the Dutch coast on 6 November en route to Dublin, then more of the English coast both on the east side (North Sea) and the west side (Irish Sea – so far as I could tell, we passed roughly over Liverpool, but clouds…), and then two 29 November images of the island of Penang and the sea north of it as we approached landing after my flight from Qatar to Penang (with a stop in Phuket); and, finally, 6 December photos as our plane traveled up the coasts of Malaysia, Thailand and Myanmar en route from KL to Yangon. Not really sure which islands we’re seeing in these various shots, but fairly sure most were islands in Myanmar by this point.
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.
(so much world, so little time....) 