The map outlines a valley of cities.  A valley of history. Along the ramparts one can catch a view of the hill across the valley.  A village that neighbours Rothenrburg. Inside the walls the St Read More …

Touring around the ravished and restored cities of Germany a visual emblem of hope emerged as we rounded the corner.  Swinging on tree branches were Easter eggs.  Eggs strung on winter dead branches coloured in Read More …

In the museum of musical machines an awareness of the evolution of digitized instructions emerges on cylinders, punch-cards and discs.  Before the “computer” these devices were the advent of a new technology — the advent Read More …

Overlooking the Rhine River a castle demarks the kingdom.  Actually it towers over the subject lands of history.  Travelling through the UNESCO site in the Rhine Gorge brings history to the present.  The conversion of Read More …

The pruning hook was once a sword, a weapon of not so mass destruction, and has fallen on hard times.  Vineyards, fruit trees, berry bushes and tomatoes still benefit from pruning.  The yellow fields of Read More …

In planted gardens there tends to be an obsessive attention to orderliness. Rows,edges,borders,weeds,wilted blooms and spectrum.  The gardens at Keukenhof provided a morning of disorganized delight in a playground of rigid possibility. Tulips,whether seen in Read More …

Between Fall and Spring there is a winter.  Winter for novelists has been about discontent and sleep.  Winter for weather has been cold in the north, hot in the south.  Winter in biology has been Read More …

In one of the many recaptured Dutch polders there is emerging a growing-exhibit called Floriade.  The acres of land created ex nhilo, almost God-like exposed a canvas of opportunity.  The images hint at possibility, the scale Read More …

The creation of the golden bycycle from a single strand of wire foreshadows the hope that emerges from a monument of the broken and lost– two wheelers scattered on the streets and in the canals Read More …

The canal side houses frame the waterways of central Amsterdam. And are a background to memory, steps, colours and selfies.  Our children are not impressed with our techno image skills! Payback is capturing their pleasure Read More …