The year 2025 ends and we cross over to 2026. I hope the new year will be a good one. I wish it brings some of the desires I cherish in my heart. I am sure others cherish these desires as well.
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The canal in the fog.
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A small milestone maid: yesterday I passed the 300.000 views on this blog. Thank you.
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Moorhens in the canal.
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Autumn colors color the village.
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Autumn colors color the village.
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There is not a wall or hill, or other side. It is just green.
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Sunrise on an Autumn morning, from a car (not driving).
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Sunrise on an Autumn morning, from a car (not driving).
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An iPhone long lens shot of a heavy rain sky. This was the first of the three photos I published the last three days.
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An iPhone long lens shot of the horizon, catching geese by accident, against a heavy rain sky. I cropped the motorway A44 out on this one.
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A long shot with an iPhone; a heavy rain sky with birds over motorway A44.
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Who says chimneys are boring?
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Who says chimneys are boring?
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Christmas sales have kicked off, and you even can change your toilet area into a Christmas atmosphere. If it is tasteful? I am not sure about that.
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The garden at night. The Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #375 is ‘where to find the mysterious’.
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Autumn skies at sunset.
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A dinner in our favorite restaurant, exquisite food with an excellent wine arrangement.
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This Heron is a frequent visitor along the little canal in front of the house.
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The Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #374 is ‘on the move’. Most of what is on these photos has not moved in a long time. However, the machines they got moving again are brilliant. It is a place where they try to keep history alive and accessible, touchable and usable.
The Steamtrain Museum Katwijk Leiden is run by volunteers. It offers the history of steam trains and their use on narrow gauge tracks. And the volunteers fix up and restore old locomotives, carriages and other cars. They have a big storage full of old parts and rusty machines.
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Having fresh flowers in the house is a blessing.
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The sky and fallen leaves on windows.
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The sky and clouds are a dynamic big display of forms, colors and light. Looking up at times can take your mind off the daily life at moments.
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The same location, two photos.
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The Netherlands, as its name indicates, is flat. ‘Flat as a pancake’. But sometimes it looks as if we have mountains.
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Autumn is the time of year were beauty is short and temporarily. Glimpses of moments that pass quickly and are gone fast. The end is the start of the new cycle of growth for the next year.
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Autumn is there, colors and details of the leaves are beautiful. Glimpses of moments that pass quickly and are gone fast.
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Autumn is there, colors of leaves are beautiful.
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Autumn is there, colors of leaves are beautiful. A spot of green is all that remains for a short while.
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Autumn is there, colors of leaves are beautiful. Unfortunately we had a lot of wind, so lots of leaves are off.
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Autumn is approaching, the rain and gray skies are more and more the new normal. Luckily there is the occasional sun to enjoy, and the beautiful coloring of plants and trees.
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Autumn is approaching, the rain and grey skies are more and more the new normal. Luckily there is the occasional sun to enjoy.
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From the roof of the Reichstag. A member of staff has a smoke break. A slightly less common street detail nowadays for LAPC #371.
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The last time, before this visit in September, I saw this part of Berlin was in November 1989. This side was West Berlin, the Spree and across was East Berlin. The Berlin Wall cut straight to the right. It was just 20 meters from the East wall of the Reichstag.
Now the Bundestag offices connect both sides of the river. The tension of the Berlin Wall is literally out of sight. But not forgotten. Seven crosses are just outside this frame on the right side. They remind us of the people who tried to flee East Germany and were killed.
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This high rising can be found near the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtnis Kirche.
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On the corner of the former Checkpoint Charlie (on the West Side).
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A beautiful, hospitable hotel in the center of Berlin, Adlon. A wonderful place for tea and scones after a walk.
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A street in Charlottenburg.
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Berlin has a wonderful (and cheap) public transportation infrastructure. One of the building blocks is the U-Bahn. Station Hausvogteiplatz.
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Every big city has its own mall, a big shopping center. Most of the times the shops and brands are the same as in the mall next to where you live. And the food court can be slightly different. The Mall of Berlin is no exception to that rule. The location (Leipziger Platz) makes it interesting, as does the architecture.
As always I can not choose: color, or mono?
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