North Holland – Amsterdam

Image

Urban Garden.155


Image

Small Wonders.185


City Views.185

Two cities in two different months: Amsterdam in April above & February below right. Leiden’s old university observatory below left, also in February.

Image

Small Wonders.184


Urban Garden.154

Last use of the photos from this year’s lovely display of bluebells at my lovely local canal-side park. ‘Til next season, dear flowers.


Urban Canals.134


Image

Islands.24


City Lights.24


Image

City Lights.23


Image

City Lights.22


City Lights.21

Though the long days do limit my exposure to city lights, they also give me more enerty to notice things like the glorious lingering light in a 10pm / 22:00 sky, and the city clock on Valeriusplein, as I walk home from another lovely concert at Concertgebouw :-).

Islands.23

This one is a bit more obviously a little island; I’d just never noticed it before. These must be heaven for the birds and small mammals of our urban park, since no one boats and I’ve never seen people swim in these canals, and dogs only going in to retrieve sticks…


Image

Urban Entrances.73


Image

Urban Garden.153


City Views.183

Having shown you some graffiti art of more or less this very thing in a recent post, imagine my delight when, on Sunday, for the very first time I saw vintage trains (related to the tram museum which is also somehow affiliated with this whole affair) rolling down these very tracks and right past that very mural, clanging their bells loudly since most pedestrians walk along the tracks these days. 🙂