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City Lights.5

You’ve seen this view before, by sunlight and focusing on the flower boxes on the bridge rail. Naturally, the real-life reflection of moon on water was even clearer and more lovely than this image could capture.

Posted by  |  November 25, 2022 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: , | 1 Comment

City Lights.4

The Ankeruhr is not the only lovely old clock that bridges a street in Vienna 🙂

Posted by  |  November 24, 2022 | Categories: Austria | Tags: | Leave a comment

Urban Canals.114

I suspect that the metalwork you see to the right here is part of a supporting – retaining wall meant to keep that side of the canal wall, and street / sidewalk to that side of the canal, from collapsing. Readers may be aware that the city is investing huge sums in steadily reinforcing and rebuilding some of the oldest (many hundreds of years) canal walls in the center of the city. Many of those oldest central canals have significant areas at risk of subsidence or collapse, since they were never built to sustain the weight of tour buses, trams, trucks and tourists who now flock to the lovely city. This was the first time I’ve noticed such a support anywhere, and I couldn’t tell if this was an intentional garden or just whatever nature allowed to land and grow there…

Posted by  |  November 23, 2022 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: , | 1 Comment

Country Canals.24

The same afternoon that I photographed that lovely little red airplane in Small Wonders.54, I was fortunate enough to be the fourth person in a four-seater private plane that took a friend for a birthday flight over the lovely town where she has roots. Thence came this and many other shots of the canals, rivers, fields and towns of the countryside in this portion of NL, from northeast of Utrecht (Hilversum Airport) to Heusden on the Maas, which you’ve seen before as well. Above is that portion of the highly-engineered waterway system that drains the Rhine, Maas and other rivers which the Dutch at this point call The Lek. Before it crosses the Rhine-Amsterdam Canal, it’s called the Nederrijn and I’ve shown you portions where it’s called that in a past post. Below…I have a feeling that’s just a regular canal but it might be a more important one like the Amsterdam – Rhine canal…

Posted by  |  November 23, 2022 | Categories: Netherlands, Utrecht (Province &/or City) | Tags: | 1 Comment

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Urban Garden.124

Posted by  |  November 22, 2022 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: , , | 1 Comment

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Urban Entrances.54

Posted by  |  November 21, 2022 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: | Leave a comment

Longest Beach.34

Posted by  |  November 21, 2022 | Categories: Bangladesh | Tags: , | 1 Comment

Longest Beach.33

Yep, we’ve made it vack to Cox and the world’s longest sandy beach for a short visit. I haven’t yet been able to put my toes in the sand or get up close with the shells … and may not get a chance on this quick in and out. But at least it’s good to see colleagues and friends here again, as well as the sunset over the Bay of Bengal, here more than three years after I bid adieu with my last longest beach entry 🙂

Posted by  |  November 20, 2022 | Categories: Bangladesh | Tags: , | 1 Comment

Small Wonders.154

With fewer flowers now in bloom, one must find other wondrous things, and I found this little old red airplane on a private airfield by Hilversum rather fun :-).

Posted by  |  November 20, 2022 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Leave a comment

City Views.154

The Secession Building, located quite close to the high-baroque Karlskirche featured in our last post, was designed in 1897 as a statement of modernity by a leader in a new movement of artists and designers then flourishing in Vienna. After being burnt by retreating German forces at the end of WWII, it was later lovingly restored.

Posted by  |  November 19, 2022 | Categories: Austria | Tags: | Leave a comment

City Views.153

The Karlskirche (St Charles Church), says my guide book, was built between 1715 and 1737 to honor the patron saint of the fight against the plague, which by 1713 had killed more than 8,000 residents of Vienna. For a fee, we were able not only to enter the building and climb to an overlook outside, but also to take a scaffolding-elevator within the sanctuary to a scaffolding-walkway high above the sanctuary, from which perspective I photographed the ornamented window in the gallery below.

Posted by  |  November 18, 2022 | Categories: Austria | Tags: | Leave a comment

Small Wonders.153

I’ve decided that when there aren’t so many flowers in bloom, small wonders can include lovely designer flourishes such as this statue – which I’m guessing must depict some fairy tale? – which adorns a bridge over a canal along one of my favorite walking and biking streets here.

Posted by  |  November 18, 2022 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: , , | 2 Comments

Urban Garden.123

All from another early-October sunset wander through Amsterdamse Bos, along Nieuwe Meer and past (above) the good ol’ Bosbaan…

Posted by  |  November 17, 2022 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

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Urban Canals.113

Posted by  |  November 17, 2022 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: , | 2 Comments

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Urban Entrances.53

Posted by  |  November 16, 2022 | Categories: Austria | Tags: | Leave a comment