Love the transportation in Amsterdam.

Hang in there, sunflowers.

Back to plums

Nancy after too much blackberry pie and wine.
Happy Birthday!

Wild Blackberry Pie

What's the difference between blackberries and boysenberries?
Rudolph Boysen developed the boysenberry in the 1800s! It's a cross between blackberries, raspberries and loganberries. Mr. Boysen's assistant was Walter Knott. Knott was a berry farmer in Calif and he started Knott's Berry Farm!

On the roof in Amsterdam

Monumental duchy in Gelderland, The Netherlands

This picture is not lopsided, but the house is!
Location: Amsterdam

Venice Beach graffiti

Reflections of the twin towers

Twin Towers Century City

Old timer

Squiggles and squares. Moving thru the air.

What's the tale of a snail? What does it smell and feel on his/her slow journey?

Jack doesn't have a beanstalk. Jack planted a sequoia tree and this is the result after 30 years!

Looking up the Sequoia

This is bark of a Sequoia which is growing right here in Holland. Our friend Jack planted it from seed and after 30 years it has become a monumental tree. Tomorrow, I'll post a fuller photo!

This tree fungus was huge!

Piptoporus betulinus, commonly known as the birch polypore, birch bracket, or razor strop, is one of the most common polyporous bracket fungi and, as the name suggests, grows almost exclusively on birch trees. The brackets burst out from the bark of the tree, and these fruiting bodies can last for more than a year. Technically, it is an edible mushroom, with a strong, pleasant "mushroomy" odor but a bitter taste. It is said to have medicinal properties, and the velvety cut surface of the fruiting body were used as a strop for finishing the finest of edges on razors. Dried specimens have also been used as tinder, and this fungus was carried by "Ötzi the Iceman" – the 5,000 year old mummy found in Tyrol.[1]

P.S. This is a very interesting story, except I don't think this is a birch. It's more likely a dying apple tree. Anyone out there know? Please respond!

I love photographing flowers. Too bad I don't know their names!

This delicate little flower belongs to the vine which tangles and strangles all the other beautiful flowers and plants in the garden. We do NOT like it!

Well, well, well...

Look at things differently. Look thru the mosaic house.

Fenced in

Detailed mosaic on the bathroom walls at Venice Beach. As beautiful as this is is as disgusting as the toilets were.

Wild blackberries growing along side the path. They need another few weeks to ripen.

MAKING SOMETHING OF NOTHING

Above you see detail which captures the beauty of an otherwise boring row of bushes (below).

Smoke signals in Limburg.