Same walk as the last entry (in fact directly across the street from the last shot), above a grocery store that I used to shop in frequently for the two years I lived in that old place…and it took me being on an evening walk in search of “city lights”-worthy images to finally notice this interesting artistic flourish 🙂
I had run out of images I could legitimately post as “City Lights” entries, and its rotation was coming up again recently, so I set myself daily reminders each evening to “take city lights photos!” so that I’d be nudged out the door. I took this, as well as our last post in this series on a late-evening walk home from Gilberto Gil’s “Farwell to Amsterdam” concert at the Concertgebouw – so I guess those reminders opened my eyes to new possibilities for this series, eh? Fun fact: the Concertgebouw was an easy 20-minute walk from my old place. It was about a 25-minute bike ride the other night coming home (to this new place) from my last concert of the summer season, a glorious first exposure to Ayanna Witter Johnson, who explained before playing her cover of “Roxanne” that she got a big boost during covid lockdown after the Concertgebouw posted this video of her performing it in an empty recital hall – the very hall where we heard her performing last Friday along with her backup band as well as the Ragazze Quartet.
Two early-morning views from my new place (just moved, middle of the week past) – above, looking north from my bedroom and below looking west from my living room. We’ve shown you Sloterplas, the lake below, in this previous post as well as a few others. You’ll be seeing more of this, and much less of my last neighborhood park going forward 🙂
Staying with the theme of “confusing churches,” the star-design window on this one confuses both me and many other visitors with whom I’ve walked this way before. This entrance has been just a few doors down from my own building for nearly my entire two years here, but from August I’ll be living in another part of the city, so this my be its farewell appearance.
Long summer days, nice weather, and (long-) weekend travels recently have allowed me to see many more intriguing entrances, so we’ll devote the next eleven posts to exploring them in all their ranges and styles. Hope you’ll enjoy the journey.
And another set of images from a single garden, behind a building which has an interesting history documented in the middle photo of the three-photo gallery just below. (Note: if you don’t see all these images on your small-screen, try again with larger screen or a different browser.)
(so much world, so little time....) 