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Roma..la cupola di San Pietro e il colonnato del Bernini...
Rome....St.Peter's dome and Bernini's colonnate...
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“Framed by Winter”
During one of our recent early winter snowstorms, I carefully followed the deep tire tracks of an early adventurer out of town and stopped alongside the road to photograph one of my favorite barns. Each season it presents itself in a different perspective but none quite as spectacular as during a winter storm.
It set me thinking about how winter has framed my own life over the last 77 years. Except for a few years when my bride and I set out to make our fortune in both Texas and California, I have put up with the worst season our state of Minnesota has to offer. My recollections now in my old age of winters decades ago have softened and I often recall them with a fondness they do not deserve.
My wife likes winter a lot more than I do but she is a more recent acolyte of our Siberian climate as she was born and raised in the semi-tropics of Queensland, Australia. Years ago I made a bad executive decision for our family to visit her tribe one December as she often yearned wistfully to relive the romantic setting when many in her city would gather in the dark at a large local park and sing Christmas songs accompanied by hundreds of people waving lit candles.
When we first arrived that holiday season I should have known things were going to go from bad to worse when I spotted a Santa walking along the beach in a speedo (don’t ask) and thongs.
On Christmas Day we awoke to hot, humid weather as the temperature climbed to 106 degrees. It was on this day my mind began to consider maybe Minnesota winters were not all that bad.
(Photographed in Cambridge, Minnesota)
The impressive buildings of the Gellért Baths in central Budapest, seen through the southern tower of the Liberty Bridge (Szabadság híd). The baths are part of the Danubius Hotel Gellért, on the Buda-side bank of the river Danube.
The Gellért bath complex was built between 1912 and 1918 in the (Secession) Art Nouveau style. It was damaged during World War II but then rebuilt. References to healing waters in this location are found from as early as the 13th century. A hospital was located on this site during the Middle Ages. During the reign of the Ottoman Empire, baths were also built on this particular site. The "magical healing spring" was used by the Turkish during the 16th and 17th centuries.
The ruins of the Toward Castle tower as seen through a ruined window
Some history about the castle here: www.scotland.com/forums/history/24901-toward-castle-massa...
De Inktpot/Hoofdadministratiegebouw III ("the Ink Pot") .
Design (1918): George van Heukelom.
Reflected: De neorenaissance Tulpenburgh/Hoofdgebouw II.
Design (1895): J.F. Klinkhamer.
Both buildings were the administrative main buildings of the Dutch railroads. Currently in use by Prorail.
Utrecht , The Netherlands.
for macro monday a close up of the beautiful magnolia that blossomed and wowed me throughout the day saturday.