One last flower from my last visit in Africa for my friend Jean, who told me after an earlier Urban Gardens post featuring this very planter of flowers what they are: ruellia. Thanks, Jean – you are definitely one of my most steady and engaged readers, and it’s readers like you who keep me going 🙂
Buiksloterbreek Park, in a part of Noord Amsterdam that I hadn’t previously visited. (In case you’d like an orientation linked to past posts: north of the Ij, to the right and in this case further west i.e. farther away from where these photos from Muziekgebouw and Bimhuis were taken.)
Sometimes an urban canal may look like a country canal – but as with our last entry in this series, note the high-rises in the background…and I think we we’re in the city limits of A’dam at this point on the bike path :-).
I hope and expect to be back in some fully-legit villages closer to home by the end of the month, so perhaps we’ll soon be able to show you some lovely views of green midsummer northern-European village life. In the meantime, we’ll work through our shots of the lovely tourist villages and resorts in the impressive mountains of northern Iraq’s Kurdistan Region.
Sticking with our theme of (snow-capped) mountains, you’ll note that some of those white things in the distance are the snow-capped Sierra Nevada mountains, which run along the western edge of California & at the California Nevada border. Given the time of the photo, this was over the central valley north and east of SF, not too terribly long after our take-off in April. 🙂
We all form images in our minds of places we haven’t yet spent time in. I’ve decided that quite a few lovely photos from my most recent Iraq visit will fit best into my current “series” approach if I create this new “Mountains” series to give them shape. If I’d chosen to think about it much, I’d naturally have expected to find imposing, impressive, beautiful mountains up in northern Iraq, from which mountains after all come two of those great historic rivers, as tends to be the case with most great rivers of the world. But somehow, the last several decades have seemed to focus one’s mind on other aspects of Iraq than on these remarkable mountains. So here you 🙂
We all form images in our minds of places we haven’t yet spent time in. I’ve decided that quite a few lovely photos from my most recent Iraq visit will fit best into my current “series” approach if I create this new “Mountains” series to give them shape. If I’d chosen to think about it much, I’d naturally have expected to find imposing, impressive, beautiful mountains up in northern Iraq, from which mountains after all come two of those great historic rivers, as tends to be the case with most great rivers of the world. But somehow, the last several decades have seemed to focus one’s mind on other aspects of Iraq than on these remarkable mountains. So here you 🙂
(so much world, so little time....) 