August is Pride Month in Amsterdam, so we wandered up there to see things at the end of the Pride Parade a few weeks ago. The first time this post went up, a glitch deleted the sadder gallery below, one of those reasons I’m so happy to now live in a place where I can be more fully myself :-).
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 🙂
(so much world, so little time....) 