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Coasting.107
County Views.147

Ah, Royalty.37
Above you’ll see the one of the most impressive and oldest original items in this semi-royal residence museum which I’ve only shown you once before even though the visit was in late May. I’m posting just about every remaining photo from my visit to the Markiezenhof now, since I have plenty of other photos for this series and currently reside and work in a nation where royal palaces are much easier to find than mountains. Strike that: in which anything one could reasonably describe as a mountain does not in fact exist, but people considered royal and thus their residences and such are generally rather plentiful. In the gallery below you’ll see some explanations of the displays including the altar above, if you’re interested. And at the bottom is the entrance to the whole compound: apparently my trip happened on day when some commercial company had rented the entry for an event or party of some sort or other, thus the folks with drinks in hand crowding the entrance.
Mountains.47


From the Air.57
At the top is one last photo looking back at Lake Tahoe, which somehow escaped my attention in the last “From the Air” entry which was meant to get us from California fully across the Sierra Nevadas and into the state of Nevada. The gallery above the and image below show you more of that Nevada landscape including the easily identifiable Walker Lake. All from the my SF to Pittsburgh flight in early May.
Islands.67


Urban Canals.177


Urban Canals.176
Before its residents voted to incorporate the lovely town of Weesp into the City of Amsterdam, I’m not sure I could have chosen to categorize the canals you’ll see in each of the photos in this post as “urban,” especially when you consider the lovely little images of coot parents building their nest in two of the photos below. But … a part of the city of Amsterdam Weesp now is, so here you see some of it’s “urban” canals and other delights.












