Imagine my surprise, while up by NL’s excellent public transit network in a small town north of Amsterdam for our first team-tennis match of the season (we won 4-2, thanks very much), to see this lone California poppy brightening the sidewalk scene as a little memory of (my other) home for me :-).
There’s a degree of honor on my side and trust on yours about these urban and country canal categories: the one above was taken one evening when I went for a walk by my apartment after work, while the one below, much more clearly urban in nature, is on my bike ride home from where I play tennis, which is a now a very different path than the Schinkeleilandenpark bike path which I used to photograph a lot, going and coming from tennis.
That’s part of the port of Rotterdam (which we showed you from afar in at least one prior post almost exactly a year ago), as seen from above late Thursday on my return flight from Geneva. (Whence that last photo of two rivers merging with very dramatically differently colored water, and a mountain emerging from the clouds in the distance. Yes, I finally got closer to some very legitimate mountains for a few days this past week, so the upcoming mountains posts will be less questionable than one or two of the other recent ones. And indeed, the need to get some mountains photos into my folders got me out early for a walk along Geneva’s lovely lake both mornings I awoke there, so look for those pics also in upcoming posts.)
Sunset from my apartment on my birthday, just over a month ago, was pretty much a full two hours later than it is already now :-(. That’s the seasons here…
Above, a sunset photo still in my folder from March, and below the last from a lovely sunset evening concert at the Muziekgebouw up by the harbor in May.
Wrapping up the last photos from the lovely Open Garden days exploration, back in June. These photos come from two different gardens, one of which was behind the house with the small museum whose story I’ve photographed :-).
Above, a sunset photo still in my folder from March, and below the last from a lovely sunset evening concert at the Muziekgebouw up by the harbor in May.
Wrapping up the last photos from the lovely Open Garden days exploration, back in June. These photos come from two different gardens, one of which was behind the house with the small museum whose story I’ve photographed :-).
(so much world, so little time....) 