Last year's images

Photos from 2022

I have been working on a story-based post, but boring stuff has been getting in the way. I hope to have that up in a few days.

In the mean time, here are a few photos from travels last year.

No, this is not an artsy montage. It is a photo of a surprisingly interesting puddle in a parking lot in Quebec City’s Basse-Ville, at the foot of the cliff where the Chateau Frontenac stands.

Chicago

A mural in a pedestrian underpass near the Chicago lakeshore.

A vine growing on a tree in Dorset, shot at sunset.

A field of bluebells streaked with dawn light near Marlborough,Wiltshire.

Sea’s edge near Swanage, Dorset.

The little village church of All Saints in Tudeley, Kent, has stained glass windows done by Marc Chagall, commissioned by a local parishioner in memory of his daughter.

In Norway’s arctic Lofoten Islands, a major industry is “stockfish”—cod that is wind dried on racks and which can be reconstituted. It is apparently popular in southern Europe. It incidentally means the whole region smells of fish.

After a maritime disaster, the village of Svolvaer, in Norway’s Lofoten Islands, erected a statue of a fisherman’s wife looking forlornly out to sea. The seagulls, of course, do not respect the poignancy.