A variety of photos taken around town as I followed one of the pride walks / marches. I walked in the other with friends from work; photographed this one around town; and then observed and photographed the boat parade, which we’ve already shown you in great detail :-). And herewith video, for those of you with sufficient bandwith:
It’s the Rijksmuseum. That means “museum of the empire” pretty much, so if that ain’t royal in a country with folks in official roles who are generally recognized as being royal, then tell me how that “palace” from the prior entry in this series gets away with being a palace, hmm? And yeah, I’ll get out and do more palacy stuff again soon since it seems I’ve run through the pics from those summer expeditions :-).
When Anne Frank listened to its chimes (as she mentions in her diary from July 1942) during WWII, Westerkerk (“relatively young,” says one tourist site, having been completed only in 1631…) likely wouldn’t have lit its clock for reasons of fuel and electricity rationing, even if the clockface was wired to be lit, as it is now which you can easily see below and less easily above. This is my principle route in to work, right past the church and the Anne Frank Huis just after it, then the core canals, palace, and on. By this time of year it’s dark again for both the morning and the evening bike commute. Only two weeks apart and taken at almost precisely the same time, so you can readily see how much shorter the days are getting.
Same island, different angles and times of year: above, seen from my apartment around the summer solstice at 22:04; below, seen from the far side at ground level, 10 October at 18:34.
My friend and frequent reader Jean admitted, when I resumed daily posting in late March, that she’d enjoyed the “photo vacation” after what she described as my “frantic (and beautiful) postings from 2023.” So this year I started early with the multi-photo posts and hope to continue using up more photos. As long as at least a few of you view and enjoy these, then I’m happy. I’ve built up quite a few on lovely long walks around my local lake – another friend and I have agreed that having a local lake is an excellent thing for one’s health both physical and mental. Definitely so in my own case, when it beckons after a work-from-home day of onscreen meetings at this time of year when the days end ever earlier. I’m making the most of the later onset this year than last of the season of endless rain to stock up fun photos to share in the months ahead. For now – various entrances from summer walks.
(so much world, so little time....) 