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Islands.67

The island of the title is at the top left above, middle in the closer-framed image below. We’ve shown you this island before, but taken from above looking down at this lake: my home is in the tallest building you can see just above at the top middle, and you’ve seen and will continue to see many lovely photos taken from my windows near the top left of that particular building :-).

City Lights.67

Last of the ‘City Lights’ images left from that first 2024 Berlin visit with Steve, already three months ago. Someone please explain where the time goes…
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Country Canals.77

Urban Canals.177

Indeed, right inside the city of Amsterdam but in the lovely park I’ve been showing you since I moved to my new place last year :-). Above, looking west one evening last week and below, looking east from the same foot / bike bridge over the canal. For orientation, in the photo below, the apartment from which I’ve taken all the various photos of this lovely lovely lake would be on the far side of the lake and to the left a bit (northeast).

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.

County Views.146

Montgomery Woods State Natural Reserve in Mendocino County, California where I spent a lovely morning exploring the redwoods and other trees, creeks, trunks and stumps.

Small Wonders.246

Most of the remaining wonders from my last vacation in California 🙂

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Coasting.106

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Signs of the City.96

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Village Views.86

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Country Canals.76

From the Air.56

If your browser loads this as I hope, you’ll see one large photo above that shows Lake Tahoe at the top (north) and the snowy Sierra Nevadas below it; one large photo at the bottom which looks back west and north across the arid western Nevada landscape, to Lake Tahoe and the Sierras. And in between, ten photos I took during the six minutes that elapsed as our plane flew across the Sierra Nevadas, leaving behind California and beginning its flight across Nevada.