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Urban Canals.206

All from various corners of Delft, mostly the TU’s botanical garden 🙂

Posted by  |  October 7, 2025 | Categories: Netherlands, Zuid Holland | Tags: | Leave a comment

Country Canals.106

Posted by  |  October 6, 2025 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Leave a comment

Village Views.116

Posted by  |  October 5, 2025 | Categories: Gelderland, Netherlands | Leave a comment

Skylights.16

You might recall that my old friend Gary and I first scheduled our cruise in order, once in our life, to see the northern lights live. As I’ve shown through dozens, even hundreds, of posts since January – we saw so much more than just the northern lights, even with the days as short as they were. We did, as I’ve shown you only a few times before, also see the lights themselves, three nights in a row on which we were fortunate to have clear skies. I don’t have a fancy camera that allows a long exposure – but my plain old phone did capture several images, which are hard to make out if you have background light. This was our experience: the first time we thought we were looking at mist or smoke in the sky, until we noticed it was moving and changing shape frequently. The colors only emerge as your eyes sensitize a lot – or on the camera if you have a long enough or good enough exposure. At the bottom, one from Gary where the color is less rich but the lights are more visible than above or in my other small shots below.

Posted by  |  October 4, 2025 | Categories: Norway | Tags: , | Leave a comment

Windows.26

Posted by  |  October 3, 2025 | Categories: France, Paris | Tags: | Leave a comment

Signs of the City.126

Posted by  |  October 2, 2025 | Categories: Bangkok, Thailand | Leave a comment

Coasting.136

Coastal Norway, from our last day at sea. Might still post an aurora shot or two, but this pretty much end o’ the Norway photos…at last, you may be thinking :-).

Posted by  |  October 1, 2025 | Categories: Norway | Tags: | Leave a comment

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Bridges.36

Posted by  |  September 30, 2025 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: | Leave a comment

Urban Garden.235

The garden and buildings at Abbaye de la Cambre in Brussels, which we first introduced a couple weeks ago.

Posted by  |  September 29, 2025 | Categories: Belgium, Brussels | Leave a comment

City Views.266

Amsterdam’s Dutch National Holocaust Names memorial (which opened in September 2021, not long after I moved to A’dam) is heartbreaking, and also beautiful in its simplicity and symbolism. I went again with a visiting friend on, appropriately, the weekend of the 80th anniversary of the first Dutch national liberation day.

Posted by  |  September 28, 2025 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Urban Entrances.166

All from morning and evening walks during my short Rome visit for work in June.

Posted by  |  September 27, 2025 | Categories: Italy, Lazio, Rome | Leave a comment

County Views.166

These were all shot along the way between Finnsnes and Tromsø, which means these are the last photos of Troms County. I’m not sure which town that is, above – one of the 15-minute port calls the boat made, where I neglected to photograph a sign that gave it away :-/.

Posted by  |  September 26, 2025 | Categories: Norway | Tags: | Leave a comment

Ah, Royalty.66

Biljoen castle & estate sit on the edge of Velp. Apparently first built and established in 1530 by one of Gelderland’s dukes or some such, it seems to have hosted Louis XIV and various other royals in the centuries since. Lovely park, too.

Posted by  |  September 25, 2025 | Categories: Gelderland, Netherlands | Leave a comment

Lake Living.76

Up the street from the abbey & park I recently shared from my last Brussels visit lie two lovely little lakes, called the Etangs d’Ixelles according to my map, of which I’d also been previously unaware.

Posted by  |  September 24, 2025 | Categories: Belgium, Brussels | Leave a comment

Small Wonders.276

All from my July Thailand visit. I’m hoping my friend and reader Jean (sorry, I know I’m overdue to answer en email…) will confirm or correct my tendency to call the flowers that aren’t water lilies plumeria or frangipani. They smell lovely but I’ve a feeling they’re maybe not really what I think they are…

Posted by  |  September 23, 2025 | Categories: Bangkok, Thailand | Leave a comment