strawberry moon

 June, the season for strawberries

and the first full moon of summer 

north america cities

Montreal, in winter, may not the wonderland getaway experience you might be looking for

but, at the moment, neither is Havana

 so, how about sunny Santo Domingo?

rue royal

Royal Street was spared the worst of the floods from Katrina, in 2005, having been built on naturally higher ground near the curve of the Mississippi.

According to wikipedia, the antique shops in the upper French Quarter could be the world's most expensive places to shop.

10th Street

 

I'm not usually a fan of 'clear-cut' looking roads, but there is something about arriving in Owen Sound on Hwy 21 and seeing this expansive view...

albert hall

 

Opened 1871 and dedicated to Prince Albert, who by then had been dead for 10 years. It is a grade I listed building, which means it's a building of 'exceptional interest'. At one time it held up to 9,000 people but safety rules now limit it to around 5.400. Although I have never been, nor have I seen it on tv, I generally associate the Albert Hall with the Proms, an eight week daily festival of mostly classical music. Each night has a different theme.  Tonight's prom is Doctor Who Prom!

(if you're watching it, Joy, I want to know what you thought)

chinatown

  

a one way street in Chinatown, San Francisco, with the ubiquitous chop suey restaurant

 

lost river

 

Place de Brouckère has some of the city's most important entertainment venues. It was completed around 1870, after the River Senne was covered over.

bernard

Kelowna, view looking west along the main downtown street, Bernard Avenue. Angled parking, two wide lanes each way and a centre boulevard of street lights.

 

clovelly steps

Clovelly is a privately owned harbour village in Devon with steep cobbled streets.

boat street

 

sounds so much better in Spanish

heartache

 

Winter in Ankara, 1959   Galata Tower

feeling so much for the people of this beautiful country  (and Syria, but I have no cards or stamps from there)
 

midtown

night and day

The Wasserschloss - a moated castle in Hamburg's warehouse district. It was originally accommodation and a workshop for dockworkers but is now a commercial building.

good things

in Alexandra Bay on the New York side of the 1000 Islands

University Ave

views

16 Mile Creek                Dunn and LakeshoreRd

Oakville Centennial Building        Gairloch Gardens

orchard

The Orchard Road district — one of Asia's most popular shopping areas.

It is a 2.2 km long full of high end retail, upmarket restaurants, hotels, with the president's residence at the eastern end and the Botanic Gardens on the western edge.

The name comes from the nutmeg and pepper plantations that the road once led towards.

steep streets

The Bica Funicular opened in 1892 and is still moving people up and down the steep stepped street of rua da Bica in Lisbon

Cascades of Time

unsent circa 1968

BANFF MAIN STREET AND CASCADE MOUNTAIN as seen from the National Parks Administration Building. The beautiful gardens here are known as the Cascades of Time

Interlaken

sent July 30, 1928 Interlaken Switzerland to Wichita USA

Dear Cousins, this shows our hotel in Interlaken - the one at the left, in fact all that building. In the distance is the majestic and beautiful Jungfrau - the 'belle' of the neighbourhood - always covered with dazzling white snow.
yours, E