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More lovely members of the narcissus family blooming next to Hortus, A’dam’s centuries-old botanical garden, in early March.

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A lovely flowering tree in the courtyard of Ghent’s “Gravensteen” castle.

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Yeah, that’s one of Ghent’s famous churches in the background 🙂
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Then there were these hardy early-January bloomers, in a patch of daffs that lasted from end of December or early January right up to a week or two ago before fully ending their bloom – in the process surviving snow and a freeze or two.

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When I resumed posting last week, I started with daffodils photographed several weeks earlier, on March 7 on my way to work. Then, biking home from two lovely hours of doubles with friends late on Tuesday the 2nd of April…what should my eyes see but this lovely patch of flowers (are these daffodils? jonquils? something else?) lit by the late-evening sun.
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Ghent City Hall.

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King Albert I park in the lovely Belgian town of Ghent, where Steve and I spent the first weekend of his recent visit.

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The rolling hills and lakes at the French-Swiss border. (If you want to check your maps, I’m reasonably confident that’s Lac de Joux.) Yep, we’ve been back to Geneva for meetings again, during our posting intermission…

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Spot the island in this image from a mid-January morning 🙂

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Yes, we’ve shown you this dramatic maritime museum before, and by night as well. It really does stand out when one’s walking over to the Muziekgebouw for a concert, as was the case here in early March, during (brother) Steve’s latest visit.