I had enough miles to get a cheap night at a nice hotel on the coast south of the Hague, but 20k of them were going to expire end of March. Out of that circumstance came a two days / one night exploring the coast. We found walking the dunes and beach quite invigorating, and the weather was generally conducive.
Look closely and you’ll see a snow-capped Snow Mountain peeking above the tops of the closer range of hills around Clear Lake, here in Lake County’s capital city of Lakeport. I’d only once grazed the very southernmost corner of Lake Country, on a wine-tasting trip to a vineyard that straddled both Lake and its more renowned southern neighbor, Napa.
Bangkok, and me in BKK to remind myself I was actually there at the start of this latest trip. Was too busy in Hong Kong to take any photos worth posting, and in BKK to take more than these on my first evening…such is work travel as opposed to the lovely vacation weeks in CA and TX 🙂
Back to Fort Ross State Historic Park in my old home county of Sonoma. This time we visited during the early stages of a school overnight trip, which added to the fun.
Bernal Hill in the distance, with Garfield Square Park’s soccer field, both as seen from one end of Balmy Alley’s beloved row of murals aka graffiti art, viz my earlier post’s note on the graffiti-to-art continuum :-). The first of several from Balmy Alley. Thanks to Nikos for pulling me here on our last morning in SF.
I created a tag called “graffiti art” years ago, I think when I visited Melbourne for the Australian Open in 2009. Recent days have given me opportunity to appreciate the differences between graffiti (art) styles in Amsterdam and SF – wait for some of my mural photos taken on my last morning in SF, and also for some I believe I got while I was up Eureka. 🙂
Yes, we’re mixing it up for the coming weeks, as I catch up with photos taken during my recent extended trips out of Amsterdam, as well as some that I took during my hiatus in NL and elsewhere. As usual, if you’re curious what it is, there are metadata attached to each post which you’ll be able to see if you “view full blog” rather than the light phone version. This post celebrates the glorious wildflowers we saw in Texas :-).
(so much world, so little time....) 