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Country Canals.100

Posted by  |  June 29, 2025 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: | Leave a comment

Village Views.110

Some last shots of Bissone, the lovely little village on the eastern shore of Lake Lugano where I stayed for four nights last November :-). The serpents are the city (village, really) symbol, taken by the public pool.

Posted by  |  June 28, 2025 | Categories: Switzerland, Ticino | Tags: | Leave a comment

Skylights.10

OK, so I went for this fabulous dawn / sunrise walk in Rome last week, with various buildings framing the setting moon wonderfully as the sky lightened. Couldn’t help myself, just kept taking photos. Yes, you’ll see the moon in each of the photos below, if you look closely enough or tap and enlarge. Don’t hate me if I’ve again gone overboard on this whole beauty thing 🙂

Posted by  |  June 28, 2025 | Categories: Italy, Lazio, Rome | Tags: , | Leave a comment

Windows.20

A pair of Tromsø windows on Tuesday afternoon (before 3pm) back in January…

Posted by  |  June 27, 2025 | Categories: Norway | Tags: | Leave a comment

Signs of the City.120

…in this case, the eternal city staying very much contemporary 🙂

Posted by  |  June 26, 2025 | Categories: Italy, Lazio, Rome | Leave a comment

Coasting.130

I began this series four years and a month ago, when my brothers and I gathered briefly in Oregon for time together before my move from the Pacific Coast all the way over to Amsterdam for work. I’m feeling a bit nostalgic – perhaps even a tad homesick – for the Pacific, even as I enjoy the Mediterranean and North Sea coastlines I’ve visited more recently :-).

Posted by  |  June 25, 2025 | Categories: Barcelona, Spain | Leave a comment

Bridges.30

Last bridge pics from my lovely Centovalli afternoon trip down from Locarno last year. Interestingly, I saw these hills and lakes from the air en route to Rome from Amsterdam, two Sundays ago: look for it in upcoming posts :-).

Posted by  |  June 24, 2025 | Categories: Switzerland, Ticino | Tags: | Leave a comment

Urban Garden.230

Posted by  |  June 23, 2025 | Categories: Switzerland, Ticino | Tags: | Leave a comment

Small Wonders.270

These little guys were in that same lovely Chiang Mai temple complex as my most recent “orchids” post :-). (Tap the images to see uncropped versions.) And yeah, that was a work trip too. No wonder my poor body and brain sometimes get a bit confused and feel their age lol.

Posted by  |  June 22, 2025 | Categories: Chiang Mai, Thailand | Leave a comment

City Views.260

As with the Barcelona photos I’ve been showing you: couple days of work from Sunday to Wednesday last week, but one does have evenings and mornings for walks and enjoying wonders of the world :-). Hadn’t been to Rome since, wait for it, May 1981. Yikes.

Posted by  |  June 22, 2025 | Categories: Italy, Lazio, Rome | Tags: | Leave a comment

County Views.160

With this post, we’re wrapping up our remaining photos of Trondheim, which is the largest city but not the capital of Norway’s Trondelag county. An interesting perception shift that came about over the course of this journey was that cities I used to think of as very far north (e.g. Trondheim, or even Bergen) I now think of as, by Norwegian standards, not really all that far north in fact. After all, they’re still below the arctic circle lol… 🙂

Posted by  |  June 21, 2025 | Categories: Norway | Tags: | 1 Comment

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Urban Entrances.160

Posted by  |  June 20, 2025 | Categories: Switzerland, Ticino | Tags: | Leave a comment

Ah, Royalty.60

Above, Queen Matilda of Flanders, who is of an older generation and different from the Empress Maud of the Anarchy so well chronicled in the Cadfael series. Interesting, the succession challenges that even a royal system can bring. Human ego, I guess, eh? Last shots from my stroll around the Jardins du Luxembourg, final morning in Paris before heading off to Zermatt last October.

Posted by  |  June 19, 2025 | Categories: France, Paris | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

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Lake Living.70

Posted by  |  June 18, 2025 | Categories: Switzerland, Ticino | Tags: , | Leave a comment

From the Air.80

Our plane flew over Lago di Brecciano shortly before landing at Rome’s Fiumicino airport on Sunday afternoon. Another short work trip in a lovely and ancient city near the Mediterranean.

Posted by  |  June 17, 2025 | Categories: Italy, Lazio, Rome | Leave a comment