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@kewgardens #kewpalace #dutchhouse #queensgarden
This place (photo from 2016) in Kew Gardens, also known as the Dutch House, dates back to the early 17th Century. The garden in back (front right of this picture) is known as the Queen’s Garden. The oil portrait, below, is of the same location (but from the front instead of from the rear garden) and dates to 1733.
Alice Cooper was only 70 years old when I took this photo five months ago.
@RealAliceCooper @hurricanenita @JacksonCasino #AliceCooper #TDIM @ThisDayInMETAL
I initially wanted to go to Inuyama to watch cormorant fishing. However, the only day I could go did not have cormorant fishing because of the fireworks show on the same river at night. I went anyway as the next best thing to watching cormorant fishing is an awesome fireworks display with a castle in the background.
Today’s photo comes from said castle, and the boats you see in the bottom of the photo are the ones people watch the cormorant fishing from.
@bluelagoonis #BlueLagoonIceland @Icelandair #mystopover
Later this month I’ll be booking my tickets for Europe this summer. If my flight goes through Iceland on my way to Copenhagen, again, I will likely spend a couple nights north of Reykjavik. The Blue Lagoon won’t be on my agenda this year. Instead I’ll try to get to places like the fjords in the northwestern part of Iceland. Any suggestions for particular “must sees”?
Another possibility is a couple nights in Frankfurt, Germany on my way in. Any fans of Frankfurt who would encourage that option? I’ve been to Berlin but only the airport in Frankfurt.
Today’s photo comes from 2017, when we were on our way to Hawaii via San Francisco. However, it’s a photo of territory I frequented far more often in my earlier years.
You can see the Oakland Coliseum, my home away from home during my first 19 years of life, in the very center of this photograph. The “island” in front of Oakland (now actually attached to Oakland, yet part of Alameda, thanks to landfill) is Bay Farm Island, and the San Leandro Bay is the water between the two. We used to drive up Doolittle Drive on Christmas Eve every year to eat at Alameda’s Acapulco restaurant. I also rode my bike up Doolittle to the stadium sometimes. My house was a few miles to the right of this photo.
You can also see some of the runways for the Oakland Airport in this photo. Fun fact: the Oakland Airport was the first airport in the continental U.S. to offer flights to Hawaii. My first flight to Hawaii was from Oakland, but my flight on this day was out of SFO.
Today’s photo comes from my neighborhood in Copenhagen in 2017. I would bike home from work via a different route each time so as to fully take in the neighborhood. The houses were lovely and the streets were fun for biking. I looked up the cost of houses on this particular street, and they started at about USD $4 million. I lived in an apartment on the other side of the church (The Jesus Church which was funded by Brewer Carl Jacobsen, co-founder of the Carlsberg Breweries) in today’s photo.