The Eemhuis combines a number of existing cultural institutes in the city of Amersfoort: the city library, the exposition center, the heritage archives and a school for dance, music and visual arts. It is located on an urban redevelopment area close to the city center.

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

Michael Jordan

♪ Anywhere away from here ♫

Phabolaois stran

Beyond your eyes, beyond all the obstacles is a world. A very big world.

horizontal posts for fencing

I took my little Sony RX100M6 out for the evening. Several obstacles to taking good shots: it rained; it was dark (obviously); there were lots of people about..

But we had a great time walking around and it did OK. This was my favourite installation.

Kayaking back to base camp, a fallen cypress tree provides a bit of an obstacle ... and photo opportunity. Caddo Lake, Texas, USA, October 2022

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“Don't let your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up; don't let your mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on the right track, the rest will follow.”

― Roy Bennett

Along the beach

Grains accumulate

Windward side

Clifty Falls State Park

Madison, Indiana

There are plenty of difficult obstacles

in your path. Don't allow yourself to

become one of them.

Ralph Marston

Katakali performer, Kumily, Kerala, India, oct 2022

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Smoke from Forest fires in distant lands shrouds the sun causing very orange skies at sunset.

The wheat harvest ends the growing season for another year

BNSF vehicle train V TACLPC1 24F punches through the solid basalt hole known as Drano Tunnel (Tunnel #2) near Cook, WA, in the Columbia River Gorge. Drano Tunnel is the first of five tunnels the train will pass thorugh in the next 3 miles as it and parallel Washington Route 14 navigate the narrow confines of land crammed between the northern bank of the Columbia River and numerous rock formations, lakes, and steep slopes. CREX 1206 is working rear-end DPU duty, shoving hard to get the autoracks rolling at track speed after holding for Amtrak on the fast-paced and heavily utilized Fallbridge Subdivision.

digital art

It is a long time since I have been able to visit this wood. So lovely to see the greenery. This path has a tree trunk across. It is a path often used by horses. I expect the riders love it.

This small gator was in my path on a walk, I thought maybe a bad idea to walk past it. Better to take a photo and leave instead. It was small, but I didn't like the way it was looking at me!

"Superando obstáculos"

Kirkjufellsfoss. Iceland

Misty Woodland, Peak District.

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A typical Scottish Highland scene, with the natural granite rocks helping to direct and slow the flow of the water course as it races towards the sea.

Bocking Street, Hackney

Tuebingen, Germany

happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them

Magic Art Photography

He must have had a train set in his youth

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.”

~ Frank A. Clark

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Wien, Vienna

Leafhopper (family Cicadellidae)

The first of this species I have seen this year. About 3 mm in length.

You feel so small, lifeless and overwhelmed and you’re working hard to push through the painful obstacles you face, take time to rest and keep looking for light.

A Mandatory abandoned guard tower in the middle of a dry wheat field, Built during 1939 built by the locals Kibbutz and help from the Ha-Hagana to protect the local population from an barbarian tribes in the northern of Mandatory Palestine (now Israel) near Kibbutz Nir-David

"מגדל ג'ורג'", על שם ג'ורג' קזמה, בעל האדמות, שהקק"ל רכשו ממנו את הקרקע והקימו עליה - בין היתר - את קיבוץ מסילות. המגדל נבנה ע"י הקיבוצניקים, בסיוע של ההגנה, ב-1939. הוא אמור היה לשכן שומרים שיגנו על החקלאים של מסילות מפני הטרדות של פלחים ושודדים ערבים, על סמך ניסיון שנרכש בעת ההתגוננות בתקופת המאורעות. לא רחוק משם יש מגדל נוסף, ליד ניר דוד (תל עמל) שנקרא מגדל השלושה,

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Yesterday was a foggy day, so right after work I headed nearby mountain and climbed on top of it.

[T]he soul of every person, no matter when he lived or what degree of holiness he acquired, whether he attained to the very heights of perfection or whether he was but entering upon the road of righteousness, whether an adult or an infant is united with God through grace, and entertains the Holy Spirit as his Guest. True, this union can be more or less perfect, it can admit of degrees which vary ad infinitum, but the mystical union is everywhere and always essentially the same.

-Barthelemy Froget, The Indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the Souls of the Just According to the Teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas (New York: Paulist Press, 1921), 118.