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One of the cottages converted to a business in Jensen Beach. The sign caught my I, so I thought I'd share the advice :-)
Happy Saturday for Stairs!
Our Daily Challenge: LIFE IS LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES
Stopped by Mom’s and found these two staring back at me.
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Jules les riquettes
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One of the reasons I made a mad dash up to Yosemite last April was to try to capture the wonderful side light on Bridal Veil that occurs in late Spring. I had seen a couple of amazing shots taken by Michael Frye, including the shot that is on the cover of his book "The Photographer's Guide To Yosemite" and I found that the sun is only in this position during a limited few weeks each year. When I arrived, the place was wall to wall with photographers and all of us were holding our breath hoping that the sun would come out and that we might even see a rainbow. The rainbow never materialized, but there was an audible cheer when the sun finally came out which was almost drowned out by the sound of hundreds of DSLR cameras clicking madly until the sun disappeared once again.
If this looks familiar, it is a wider view of a shot I posted of Bridal Veil a few months ago. It's a bit of a weird angle, but I like how the falls are dead center and how a finger of sunlight stretches across under El Capitan. This was my first trip to the park in late Spring, and I daresay, this won't be my last.
Skagit County
I had a hard time with getting the subject into focus today for various reasons. Any tips on using a big lens and shooting moving targets would be appreciated.
All the reasons why "
Reflets de Griffintown reflections
Montreal
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z43OUnHUGOE
The Lady Wants To Know - Michael Franks
Cereus hexagonus - lady of the night cactus
early on a summer morning, pollination goes on
cool phone take -try that with your camera…
(No. 1) No need to ask why, just do it.
(No. 2) You did the crime, you do the time.
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The reason why I'm boycotting robotic lawn mowers.
Powód, dla którego bojkotuję robotyczne kosiarki do trawy.
La razón por la que estoy boicoteando las cortadoras de césped robóticas.
Y rheswm pam rwy'n boicotio peiriannau torri lawnt robotig.
De reden waarom ik robotmaaiers boycot.
Причина, чому я бойкотую роботизовані газонокосарки.
Voici pourquoi je boycotte les tondeuses à gazon robotisées.
Ecco perché boicotto i robot tagliaerba.
Grunden til at jeg boykotter robotplæneklippere.
Anledningen till att jag bojkottar robotgräsklippare.
😉
For reasons that escape me at the moment I have used this title on several other photos that can be viewed in the first comment box below. Any excuse for Bob Dylan lyrics I suppose?
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada -
Not sure what was going on with this youngster, but as I passed it, it seemed alone and forlorned hiding there in the deep brush. Maybe it had somehow gotten separated from its mother. Or, hopefully, it was simply waiting for its mother to return.
I moved on and hoped for the best for it...
We all love nature and its animals, but they don't have it easy and it's tough to live a high quality life in the wild! All the more reason we should do our best to live peaceably and reasonable with our wild animal friends.
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Listen to some classic Ska music: Prince Buster - Al Capone
Created for the Magnificent Manipulated Masterpieces
154th MMM A COLLAGE OF THINGS Challenge
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There goes my heart beating
Cause you are the reason
I'm losing my sleep
Please come back now
There goes my mind racing
And you are the reason
That I'm still breathing
I'm hopeless now
I'd climb every mountain
And swim every ocean
Just to be with you
And fix what I've broken
Oh, ‘cause I need you to see
That you are the reason
There goes my hands shaking
Cause you are the reason
My heart keeps bleeding
And I need you now
If I could turn back the clock
I'd make sure the light defeated the dark
I'd spend every hour, of every day
Keeping you safe
I'd climb every mountain
And swim every ocean
Just to be with you
And fix what I've broken
Oh, ‘cause I need you to see
That you are the reason
You are the reason
Yeah, yeah...
I'd climb every mountain
And swim every ocean
Just to be with you
And fix what I've broken
Oh, ‘cause I need you to see
That you are the reason..."
For whatever reason the good storms have been avoiding the Tucson area this year, depriving me of the opportunity to get good lightning shots!
This is about the best that I've got so far, the storm was about 14-15 miles east of us. Really lighting up but the lightning was pretty much all cloud to cloud. With any luck and a sacrifice to the weather gods I'll hopefully be able to come up with something a bit better!
BTW, the light spots up above the clouds are not hot pixels but stars!
For some reasons I cannot really explain, I never finished to edit my photos made in Senja in summer 2018, during a workshop. I get back to them from time to time and it is always a pleasure to rediscover one of them, and edit it as a cherished memory (Norway, Senja Island, Aug. 2018)
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This location was one of the main reasons that I went to New Zealand this time. I have wanted to shoot here for a long time and I loved being here. You may recognise the seastacks from the famous image taken inside one of the caves as you open Windows 10.
Its location is very remote being near Puponga right at the very top of the south Island. There is only one way in and out and that's through what they call the Takaka Hill - well its certainly not a hill and I had to drive it through rain and fog and I have to say it was rather sketchy and I was very glad that it finally came to an end. When you google it, it tells you that its very dangerous and I can now see why.
To get to this beach its about a 20 minute walk from the carpark through a gorgeous farm scattered with sheep and 4 steeples that you have to cross over.
Once I got to the beach the view took my breath away. All the effort to get here was worth it. There are caves, sea stacks called the Archway Islands and there are even seals swimming and sunbaking! what a location. I also timed it perfectly with the tide to get great reflections too.
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The reason he looks a little sad was that his girlfriend stood him up. He was chasing her all over the place, and then another buck appeared and he chased it off. When he went back his girlfriend was gone. I don't know how she could turn down a beautiful buck like this.
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Because... Love is the Reason for the Season!
on Explore: 17 Dec 2008 at #137
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You see, I started this project for reasons unlike what most of you have described: better knowledge of your camera, a way to hone your skills, etc., etc. Me? I really did not see any point in having three hundred and sixty five photographs of myself. But, here’s how it happened:
Last summer I drove from my life in California back to my childhood home in Ohio. The decision to move home was based on necessity, not want. Over the course of the four-day cross-country drive, WITH MY MOTHER, I realized I was going to need one hell of an outlet if I was going to survive this transition year. During this drive across country, I also realized that not only would I need an outlet, a safe-haven, a secret-hide-out from my everyday life back home, I realized I would need some friends. Not one of my friends from high school or growing up was still around town. The whole drive I thought about the 365 projects I’d seen on Flickr, and by the time I got half way home, I’d decided that’s what I needed to do. I even convinced my mom on the drive that I needed a DSLR… you know… as an investment? Uh-huh. And a 365 was born on the night of August 16, 2008… the day my cross-continental drive came to an end and I was officially home. One year ago.
What I didn’t realize was just how much of an outlet this would be. I like to think of it as the one room in my house where no one can find me. What else I didn’t realize was… you people would become more than online-acquaintances. You would become friends, people I actually desire to meet.
It’s funny, this project, and what it does to you that you don’t expect. I’ve learned a lot about myself and my life over this past year (not just through the 365, lets not be dramatic), and I think maybe I’ve even learned a little photography along the way.
Thanks to everyone who has stopped by at one point or another over the past year.
Love,
Erin
_______
For TOTW: movie lines....Cause i'm so not in the same place i was a year ago.
For some reason, seagulls like to gather in a local strip mall parking lot, even though there's no water nearby.
They were all mulling around and then by some mysterious group think mechanism, in a flurry they all assembled in what I guess was a meeting.
A moment or two later, they took their places.
They didn't do anything, just stood there.
I couldn't figure out what was the point of the game.
I turned to go back to my car and there was one big gull standing on the roof. Just standing there.
So I figured well when I get up to my car it will surely fly away.
It did not.
So then I thought well I'll open and slam the door loudly and it will surely fly away.
SLAM!
Nothing.
So I thought I'll speak to it and tell it to go. So I did. I said SHOO with a voice of authority.
Didn't budge.
One more time in my most commanding voice.
It turned its back on me.
Finally I said look, I'm leaving, driving home and I don't expect you to be on the roof when I get there.
I did.
It wasn't.
Maybe what they do in the parking lot game is practice standing and not leaving.
Hope you had a nice Sunday.
The reasons for the white tiger being almost extinct in the wild is because it lacks the natural camouflage of normally colored tigers, and most of those born are killed by predators as they are young and vulnerable, and more so because they stand out. Those that do survive and make it to adulthood, have a hard time hunting for the same reason - lack of camouflage. Sadly, they are hunted down for their beautiful fur and organs.
... I love street shooting in the Netherlands:
The Dutch usually react kindly when they realize they are being photographed. Sometimes I'm asked curiously why I'm doing it.
I had some unpleasant experiences in certain places in Germany.
Note: The fries at Dapp taste excellent
For entirely non-train reasons I found myself at Cherrywood West on the first day of 2025. Turned on the scanner just in time to hear H19 call the approach to Cherrywood. It was a pleasant surprise - though not entirely unexpected - to see a pair of veteran SD60's come around the bend a few moments later. Some last minute adjustments to my camera settings (mostly) saved the day as the sun kept peeking in and out from behind the clouds.
Went out walking with my daughter yesterday and she kept singing this song and now I can't get the damn thing out of my head today so I thought I'd share....and now, just maybe, it will be stuck in your head all day as well...bahaha
Listening to...BIG AND CHUNKY
I bow down to pray
I try to make the worst seem better
Lord, show me the way
To cut through all his worn out leather
I've got a hundred million reasons to walk away
But baby, I just need one good one to stay...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYRJ-ryPEu0
Credits: missbehavingweb.wordpress.com/2017/01/08/a-million-reasons/
i love something corporate, and their final album ever just came out, even though it's just their greatest hits. ): i've been waiting for this since fourth grade.
i'm getting really sick of these plants and flowers and such, sorry for the lack of variety but i expect some wonderful pictures tonight because i'm going to a sleepover. (:
if anyone has any suggestions on things i could do better in my shots, please don't be hasty and just tell me. i'm in complete need of growth.
by the way, hello. (: there was almost a tornado on tuesday. i was crying really hard because the funnel was right above the track we were running on for our meet and my mom was there but i lost her, only to find after a good 30 minutes of crying very hard that she went home before anything even happened.
whatta week. :D
+2 in comments! (when i get home from school at least :p)
“Childhood is the sleep of reason.”
(Jean-Jacques Rousseau - French philosopher, 1712-1778)
It was too hot that day in Varanasi (Benaras) and I left the ghats along the Ganges where there was no air.
As I was walking into a narrow street of Kashi, the oldest part of the city, I saw some amazing tiles on a wall with images of several Gods that I started to take in pictures.
Suddenly I heard a voice calling me from the upper levels of the building:
“Hey uncle, take my picture!”
And this young boy was waving at me, I took several shots and he started to bend over the window trying to give me the best smile.
His mother came in time shouting that if he was jumping I would have a better picture.
We all burst laughing, it was a happy moment and it is now a sweet memory captured with my camera.
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it's almost a ritual, coming here every few months and taking nearly identical photos with different phones and sometimes cameras. Not for comparison reasons, but because I enjoy it :)
Nick Cave is a phenomenal artist for several reasons. One thing that I loved about this exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago is that there were audio pieces explaining some of the works. The main work the couple are viewing is called Speak Louder but the work above it is one of a few in his Tondo series. When Nick Cave started making Soundsuits, it was right after he heard about the police brutality and the Rodney King beatings. I posted a shot of his Soundsuits here:
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When he speaks about Tondo, he speaks about the effects of inner city violence on children. This is something that is a dear issue to me as I work with kids with disabilities in the public schools in Chicago. At one school I work at, kids come all over the city and 97% must be drawn from the highest poverty areas of the city according to the last census. So, when a parent is concerned because of a child's lack of attention or behavior and a nurse asks, "How much sleep does your child get each night?" and the parent replies "None because there are constantly gunshots and police sirens going off," you know something needs to change in this world.
As many of you know, I believe in proactive means to building better communities. As we continue to put more budgets into funding police, we actually have more crime because less is going into quality education, libraries, mental health facilities, preventing food deserts, equitable employment and low income housing. As our policing has increased, it means that there is also less of a viable public transportation system as well, at the same time that many families earning lower incomes cannot afford these astronomical gas prices and we all need to take an active role when it comes to climate change.
In my 21 years of working with children at Chicago Public Schools, I've worked at a few different schools. In 2003, I had the great honor of working with kids in the Cabrini Green neighborhood before re gentrification and racism (profit over people time and time again) unfortunately forced many people out. I've worked on the West side and lately on the North side. I love children all over the city. When I bike to the far South side to see art, some ask me if it's safe. Wherever children go, we should be willing to go. And, if we are not wiling to go there, we need to think about making it safer there. Chicago is a microcasm of the whole world in that respect. We have the ability to make a world where everyone has a basic level of human rights and a higher quality of life. We don't need little boys getting to go to space again. We don't need billionaires who have 10 homes. We need sustainability.
In all my years at Chicago Public Schools and in the hundreds upon thousands of children I've met (and hopeful helped), not one of them has ever told me he/she/they want to rob or kill people for a living. However, there was an eight year old girl who told a Speech Therapist I worked with that she wanted to be a cop "because they get away with murder." We need to be better.
I am an active voter and donate money to charity and some politicians. I wish I had more power. I wish I could also create something as beautiful as Nick Cave does when he falls into despair. Some people ask me what protesting does. Others ask me what making art does. Still, others ask me what voting does. I'll tell you I don't have all the answers (or any some days) but I can tell you this much, if we were ALL trying to make the world a better place. If we were all making decisions based on trying to be more kind, just, and human, this world would in fact change.
So, if you're kind, Speak Louder. If you're a fan of human rights, Speak Louder. If you want children of all races, religions, and socioeconomic backgrounds to grow up in a better world, Speak Louder. If you want Environmental Justice, speak louder. If you want immigration rights and body autonomy, speak louder. If you want those in the LGBTQ+ community to have the same quality of life as those who are cis gendered and/or heterosexual, speak louder. If you want an end to the For Profit Prison Industrial Complex, speak louder.
Speak Louder.
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Fast and light, the Photon Chaser is built to get in, perforate some hulls, and get away fast. With minimal armor, it can't take much return fire, but it is fast enough for that to not matter much. While not as heavily armed as some beefier fighters, its dual 5-barreled cannons can still do some damage.
Built for Nnovvember 2020, this is my first ever Vic Viper. This actually started in late October with one of the wings as a vertical fin on another ship I was working. After messing with that for a while and getting nowhere, I realized that what I really had was a Vic Viper wing, and since Novvember was coming up, I ran with it. That other ship may still make an appearance at some point, but now that I've used the wings for this I'm going to do something different with that build.
For most of my MOCs I've built dark, featureless display stands that are supposed to melt into the background and not distract from the rest of the build when it's photographed or displayed against a black backdrop. For this one, though, a black background wouldn't have worked due to all the black around the edges of the ship. Since the stand was going to be a prominent feature when this thing is displayed, I took a couple of additional days of building to make it pretty. I was going for a vaguely Alien look.
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Back in the 1960's the talks of a merger between Ford and Ferrari were taking place, but in the end the merger never materialized. Ford wanted a race car for events like Lemans and others, and a merger between they and Ferrari would have made that path much shorter, and easier to come by. When it became apparent that all bets were off between the two, and maybe for reasons attributed to nothing more than egos, it then was as though Ford, now more than ever, wanted to build a car and one directly targeted at Ferrari, and the story of the GT40 began. And, at the beginning, the story wasn't a smooth one. With only months to design, build, and test a car before the car's first planned race was going to be a monumental task! But Ford put a great team together to take on the challenge and they did meet that deadline. All were very enthusiastic, however, meeting a deadline was only part of the challenge...having a car, or cars that could be in the winner's circle at the end of the race was the real goal. Sadly, on their first time out they were met with mechanical failures, and once more it was back to the drawing boards and decisions on subtle exterior design changes, engine changes (289ci - 427ci) brakes, and gearbox changes were made. Now, let me move ahead to June of 1966, and the Lemans Race against the Ferraris, and what Ford was now hoping to be victorious in doing so.
As the day of the race drew closer, the Ford Le Mans Committee arrived to support the team. Henry Ford II had been named honorary chairman of the race and would serve as starter with his wife and son Edsel with him in tow. As the clock hit 4:00 PM on June 18th, Henry Ford II waved the starter flag and the drivers ran across the track to start their cars and the race. Ken Miles, who had the second fastest qualifying time after Gurney, had immediate issues as the door struck his helmet and he had to quickly pit for repairs. The rest of the cars roared on with the Fords and Ferraris trading the lead through much of the early race. The crowds watched knowing that the Fords had often been the fastest cars but never completed the endurance race. After midnight, the tables began to turn. The Ferraris began to drop out with mechanical difficulties and while Ford had some withdrawals, the bulk of the team raced on and at one point held the 1-2-3-5-8 spots. By 4:00 AM, the last of the Ferraris was out of the race and the order went out for the teams to slow the pace to ensure the most cars could complete the race. The drivers slowed from the early pace of 3:30 per lap to a more strategic 3:50 per lap. Dan Gurney was in the lead most of the evening, with the Ken Miles and Bruce McLaren teams trading 2nd and 3rd place depending upon their pit stop order. When Gurney’s car went out with engine problems around 10:00AM, Ford still had the first three places between the Shelby American and Holman Moody teams.
With two hours left in the race, Leo Beebe and Carroll Shelby met to discuss the end of the race. With the Ford cars running 1-2-3, there was little question as to winning the race, but what order should the finish take? If Miles and McLaren continued their personal race, a malfunction such as the one Dan Gurney had at Sebring might occur. The team also discussed having the cars come across in a tie and inquired of the ACO (Le Mans race organizing committee) if that was permitted. The ACO agreed that this was possible and so the drivers (at this time Ken Miles and Bruce McLaren) were told the news at their next pit stop. While neither was thrilled with the decision, both acquiesced with Ken Miles saying “I work for the Ford Motor Company… if they want me to win the race, why, I’ll do it… and if they ask me to jump in a lake, why I’ll guess I will have to do that as well.”
Miles (who had just taken the lead during a McLaren pit stop) and McLaren began to slow down to allow the third car, driven by the Holman & Moody driver Dick Hutcherson to catch up. By this time, word had come back from the ACO that a tie would in fact not be permitted and since the Bruce McLaren team had started 8 meters further back from the start line it would have traveled further and would be declared the winner. The ACO ruling is a matter of some debate as there was nothing written in the sporting regulations from that year that accounted for the rules in the event of a tie.
The decision to notify the drivers of the change in ACO policy rested with Leo Beebe and Carroll Shelby. As the two conferred, there were a number of considerations. While Ken Miles had done the bulk of the race prep work on the Mark II to prepare it for competition since his first drive in February, 1965, Bruce McLaren had been with the program since its inception in 1963 and had always been a true team player driving at the assigned speed. Both drivers felt they could win in a race to the finish as neither had more than a lap or two lead during the second half of the race. Leo Beebe ultimately made the decision to not notify the drivers and let the dead heat occur, which would make the McLaren team the victor. Beebe later noted that “to have Ken win would have been more expedient and popular, but the extent to which McLaren and Amon had played exactly according to our rules mitigated against Miles. The result was not necessarily even popular with me.” Ultimately, Beebe felt that Ken Miles trying to push the Dan Gurney car at Sebring was a big enough strike against him to give the nod to the McLaren/Amon team.
During the final lap, the three Ford cars rode in tandem with Miles and McLaren crossing the finish line in a dead heat with Hutcherson close behind in 3rd place. Photos at the time appear to show McLaren surging ahead at the final moment, but the checkered flag is actually waved some distance from the final finish line, which was being monitored by newly installed IBM electronic time keeping devices. The photo finish was intact. As the cars approached the victory circle, Ken Miles and fellow driver Denny Hulme who hanging out of the passenger side door, were surprised when they were waved off to allow McLaren and Amon to the victory podium. Both were crestfallen when they learned of the changed ACO rule interpretation, but Ken Miles had the most to lose. He would have been the first driver to win Daytona, Sebring and Le Mans in the same year. In an interview a few months after the race he was philosophical, noting once again that he worked for Ford and would accept whatever outcome occurred.
This victory was a culmination of three years of engineering, design, and research to develop a winning car and winning team. Motorsport racing requires a combination of engineering, artistry and intuition from the drivers. With the Mark II all three elements were in play. Ford Motor Company engineering did tremendous work on the elements of the car and many were highlighted in papers to the Society of Automotive Engineers, while the stellar teams of Shelby American and Holman & Moody provided the artistry to turn the cars into unbeatable racing machines, and the drivers provided the vision and courage to navigate the difficult courses.
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You are the reason ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByfFurjQDb0
I'd climb every mountain
And swim every ocean
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for a couple reasons. One being that in the 5 times I've been to Battle, I don't think i've ever seen an eagle there. And second, we were heading back upriver after a couple hours of bear watching. Going back to camp is always with the motor, we're going pretty fast, it's bumpy, so not best conditions for shooting something like this.
But I could see in the distance on the riverbank, something fairly large and brown, which I could tell wasn't a bear and figured out pretty quickly it was an eagle. So I pointed my camera at it, focused and started shooting, hoping for the best.
I got about 8 frames or so, all fairly decent shots considering the conditions. I was thankful for a camera that can shoot 14fps with fast auto focus capabilities and my lens's stabilization technology.
So I was pretty happy to get this
I use Flickr like that, you know
I used to write a diary, all the way till I was 16 and went off to England for a working camp for 3 weeks.
I was so sure that I would never come from that trip alive
So I burned the diaries I had
Little did I understand that the burning was a way to tell myself that I was finished with the life I had till that day.
It was often a wretched life, lots of circumstances made it like that
Things no child should experience
So deep down I understood that I had choices to make
I had a life to live
How to start the change?
Tricky one for a 16 year old
But I started to live fully and I definitely took it all in.
I had to, you know
Because how could I else understand the good things from the bad things
So I experienced loads, both good and bad - but now I was in charge, I was to do the choices.
When you experience yourself, instead of being told how to do or not to do things it settles in your mind in quite another way.
It is the first step to get things right, life schmocks right back at your face and the experiences you just did makes seeds in your mind and you can start to harvest after a while
Life could begin
Don't judge a person for dealing with life, we have reasons you may not understand and often the ones living the life don't understand before later
And yes Dear Diary, I did escape from the working camp, lol, I ran off to London and lived there for some weeks. My folks didn't know.
No cellphones, haha.
I made it home, refreshed, smuggling lots of miniature bottles with Cherry Heering and Cointreau
Life could definitely begin, lol.
Happy ending today too
And yes, Christian - this is Karmøy, sunset towards Great Britain :D
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on February 7, 2021, blizzard Darcy rages across Western Europe, a strong wind accompanied by drifting snow. The last heavy snowstorm in Amsterdam dates from 1985. In the evening the storm had died down. Wind, cold, dark? It's minus eight degrees celcius. All reasons to go outside. Scarf on, walking shoes on and into the city centre. Do you see those lights, do you see the smoke coming out of the chimney and do you hear the fire crackling? The snow reflects the light in the evening, giving you a beautiful view. I enjoy the sound of crunching snow under my shoes and the beautiful view of the Amsterdam canal houses. Walking in winter is not only a guarantee for red cheeks and a breath of fresh air, but is also good for body and soul. There is something very beautiful about Amsterdam in winter. The Jordaan is covered with thick snow as above on the Keizersgracht. There is a tranquil beauty of snow and cold. A white blanket does indeed make Amsterdam slightly different from those other 360 days of the year: different views, different sounds, different light. A winter party sprinkled with white confetti. And it is quite simply a welcome break in the covid-19 lockdown. A period when the days start to look more and more alike and string together in a uniform slurry, with only the longing for the future as a ray of light in the darkness of the curfew. The snow remains at this temperature. More than 10 centimeters of snow has fallen. This is a welcome change. The snow also provides a lot of fun for children here in the Amsterdam Jordaan . Snowball fight, making snowmen or sledding. All fun activities that children do in this beautiful snowy world. Anyone who thinks away for a moment will imagine themselves in the world of Hendrick Avercamp today. It will continue to snow for the next few days. Expect more than 17 cm of snow in Amsterdam.
When an Amsterdammer sees the Westertoren, he or she thinks of Theo Thijssen. He felt an intense bond with the capital, where he was born and died. He grew up in the Jordaan, in the shadow of the Westertoren. Theo Thijssen was also a trade unionist and social democratic politician. The book 'Kees de Jongen' is about a boy growing up in Amsterdam at the end of the 19th century. It takes place in the Jordaan. Main character Kees Bakels lives near the Westertoren. His father owns a shoe shop and workshop. Kees lives in his fantasies. Kees' musings are still recognizable to many today. Thijssen also talked about the flu epidemic in the winter of 1889-1890 and now 131 years later we talk about our covid-19 epidemic. Little has changed in that regard. Photo taken in the evening at the Keizersgracht and Leliegracht intersection in the Amsterdam-Jordaan with the Westertoren in the background.
op 7 februari 2021 raast sneeuwstorm Darcy over West- Europa deze hard wind ging gepaard met stuifsneeuw. De laatste zware sneeuwstorm in Amsterdam dateert van 1985. In de avond was de storm gaan liggen. Wind, kou, donker? Het is min acht graden. Allemaal redenen om juist wel naar buiten te gaan. Sjaal om, wandelschoenen aan en de Jordaan in. Zie je die lichtjes, zie je het rook uit de schoorsteen en hoor je de openhaard knetteren? De sneeuw reflecteert het licht in de avond, waardoor je een prachtig zicht hebt. Ik geniet van het geluid van knarsende sneeuw onder mijn schoenen en het prachtige gezicht op de Amsterdamse grachtenpanden. 's Winters wandelen is niet alleen een garantie voor rode wangen en een frisse neus, maar is ook goed voor lichaam en geest. Er is iets heel moois over Amsterdam in de winter. De Jordaan is bedolven onder dik pak sneeuw zoals hierboven op de Keizersgracht hoek Leliegracht. Er is een verstilde schoonheid van sneeuw en kou. Een witte deken maakt Amsterdam inderdaad net even anders dan die andere 360 dagen in het jaar: andere uitzichten, andere geluiden, andere lichtval. Een winterfeest besprenkeld met witte confetti. En het is simpelweg ook een welkome onderbreking in de coronalockdown. Een periode waarin de dagen steeds meer op elkaar gaan lijken en zich aaneenrijgen in een uniforme brij, met alleen het verlangen naar de toekomst als een lichtpuntje in het duister van de avondklok. Bij deze temperatuur blijft de sneeuw liggen. Er is meer dan 10 centimeters sneeuw gevallen. Dit is een welkome afwisseling. Wanneer een Amsterdammer de Westertoren ziet denk ie aan Theo Thijssen. Met de hoofdstad, waar hij geboren werd en stierf, voelde hij een intense band. Hij groeide op in de Jordaan, in de schaduw van de Westertoren. Theo Thijssen was ook vakbondsman en sociaal-democratisch politicus. Het boek 'Kees de Jongen' gaat over een opgroeiende jongen in Amsterdam tegen het eind van de 19de eeuw. Het speelt in de Jordaan. Hoofdpersoon Kees Bakels woont vlakbij de Westertoren. Zijn vader heeft een schoenenwinkel en -makerij. Kees leeft in zijn fantasieën. De mijmeringen van Kees zijn ook nu nog voor velen herkenbaar. Thijssen vertelde ook over de griepepidemie in de winter van 1889-1890 en nu 131 jaar later praten wij over onze covid-19 epidemie. Wat dat betreft is er weinig veranderd.