RAINY DAY IN PARIS

Any day in Paris, regardless of the weather, is wonderful. This photo was taken on a rainy day in Rue Xavier Privas, one of the narrow streets in the Latin Quarter. I love the Latin Quarter area with its narrow alley-like, pedestrian-only streets. Street-level has restaurants of every nationality, but look up to see the wrought-iron balconies covered with the red-geranium-filled flowers boxes.

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Photo taken by me during my visit to Paris in May, 2006.
Waterlogue images created by me.

BRUGGE CANAL REFLECTIONS

If you love the oldness of Europe (that's my word), then you have to visit Bruges, or Brugge as I like to call it. Brugge is the Flemish form of Bruges. Needless to say, Brugge is everything that the guidebooks tell you it is: beer, chocolate, unique architecture and postcard-pretty canals. This is one of my favorite photos from my visit: a picturesque canal, the water so still it reflected like a mirror, the houses with their burnt-orange tiled roofs reflecting on the water.

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Photo taken by me during my visit to Brugge in May, 2010.
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DUTCH TULIPS

For 8 weeks every Spring, from mid-March to mid-May, an area known as the Bollenstreek, a triangle-shaped area stretching between Haarlem, The Hague and Leiden, is aglow with glorious colors. Everyone knows the Netherlands is famous for growing tulips. We've all seen pictures of the fields in brilliant color--rows and rows of brilliant reds, pinks and yellows. The fertile sandy soil plus the climate in this area make a perfect for the flowering bulbs to thrive.

In the middle of the Bollenstreek sits the Keukenhof Gardens. Every year over 7,000,000 flower bulbs (yes, SEVEN MILLION!) are planted each year. Every year the gardens are designed differently from the previous year; it takes 30 gardeners to plant the millions of bulbs each year. But seeing these fields yourself is a memorable experience.

This is one of my favorite photos taken during my visit to the Keukenhof Gardens in 2010. original photo:

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Photo taken by me during my visit to Keukenhof Gardens in May, 2010.
Waterlogue images created by me.

DELFT CANALS

In a previous post I introduced you to the Waterlogue app. I am fascinated with its ability to take a photograph and turn it in a beautiful watercolor painting.

I visited the city of Delft during a trip to the Netherlands in 2010. Although the weather was awful that day with a cold, windy, drizzly rain, I thought Delft was such a charming city with its small canals and the beautiful Oudekerk and Nieuwekerk churches. I love this scene. It shows the architecture of the narrow buildings fronting the small canal, the wet, brick street next to the canal, the small bridges over the canal and bicycles which are so quintessentially Dutch.

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Photo taken by me during my visit to Delft in May, 2010.
Waterlogue images created by me.