First inhabited stork-nesting platform I’d seen this season, biking home through Vondelpark a few weeks ago – above. Below, same platform seen from the other side, last weekend. And further down, since it’s spring flower season here, more from last weekend’s walk in Vondelpark for your viewing pleasure :-).
They’ve been steadily renovating and sprucing up Amsterdam’s Royal Palace – never a residence, only where the the royal head of state holds state meetings when in A’dam – for quite a while now. The gold ornaments on the roof are looking nice and shiny and, spoiler alert, I’ve managed a few more legit royal-adjacent digs visits recently, so we’ll very soon be showing you this view again- next time with sunshine :-).
99% certain I’m showing you the city of Ijmuiden, a lot of North Holland (the province) including Amsterdam, the Markermeer & the Ijsselmeer, a lot of Flevoland (the province) and even bits of Overijssel & Friesland (the provinces)…what makes me 1% unsure is that, enlarge it as I try, I can’t really quite find Amsterdam landmarks that I recognize, which just goes to show how perspectives can change, or how much resolution one mobile phone’s camera can generate. These are all from shortly after takeoff for my December flight to ORD.
Posting a bunch of photos from an afternoon walk last month around my neighborhood on a cold Sunday afternoon. During my most recent walk past this new stork platform above, I didn’t yet seen indications of any nesting storks taking up residence, but I do think I’ve seen a few storks soaring through the sky already.
Final shots from last June’s short Rome visit: above, a bay on the west coast of Italy heading south, and below, over the alps then about to land in Amsterdam a few days later. If you’re viewing this on your phone, you might see how you like the “full view” now and then – that way, you’d see circles of smaller photos below and a larger photo above, instead of four square same-sized photos top to bottom. Just sayin’ :-).
Then I got home to Amsterdam two weekends ago and found more snow and ice than usual here, yet still those early daffodils poking up through the remaining snow and ice…QED on the whole ‘source o’ life’ idea, eh? And do, please, note the shopping cart stuck in the ice by my nearest train station, literally on my first walk home after landing early on the 11th…we all know lots of trash and bikes and even cars end up in the canals each year, but rarely do we get to see them suspended in the ice like this!
Two last 2025 A’dam sunrises, in November (left) and June (right). And once the sun moves farther north again, you’ll be able to start seeing how far along that construction across the street has come.
(so much world, so little time....) 