91 posts categorized "The World Elsewhere"
On the Baltic
A little while ago, when the days were still contracting, we took the train north to the Baltic coast. — These were the two versions of the sky We'll return for Easter; let's hope for sun. Wishing you happy days!...
Lisbon up, Lisbon down
Monochrome, mostly, yet the Lisbon winter absolutely has its own light....
A touch of Lisbon sun
A touch of Lisbon sun to warm this snowy morning. Thank you for all the suggestions on where to best devour those wobbly delights known as pasteis de nata! More of elsewhere and here in the next....
Kutmühle Villingen (Constance)
In Constance, I loved a bakery and a lake. The bakery was tucked into one of the shopping streets that wind through the old town: the window display of flours with the winning old-fashioned packaging caught my eye on my......
Lake Constance, Dawn
I had timed my departure for the dawn, but sunrise was only a bluing of the air....
Edinburgh notes (Edinburgh Art Festival)
Oh let's all go move to Edinburgh! I had barely a few hours in the city and they left me all aflutter. Changing trains between Elgin and Alnmouth I wrangled a half-hour at the Fruitmarket, a contemporary art gallery just......
All the temperatures of the sky (A sojourn in Scotland)
The light heats to gold, cools to gray. We leave the house once S is asleep and make for the Back Shore. We go past the maltings, and linger at the Point. The harbour is quiet, though sometimes a seal......
