I am not really sure what this is – but I took this snap in Nice
If you’ve got sharp eyes you’ll notice that the side of the white building is flat. What looks like balcony and bolsters is just painted on!
A renaissance man for the twenty-first century!
One of my passions is finding “hidden canals” – and in the Swiss city of Biel/Bienne, there is quite something going on that I just don’t understand.
There is an interesting spot where waterways converge. This is how it looks on Google Maps:
And this how it looks in real life:
But this Schleusenweg (“lock-way”) to the left just runs for a bit into the city, then disappears altogether.
Like Capt. Kirk said, “I don’t like mysteries. They give me a belly-ache, and right now I’ve got a beaute.”
Continuing the series, I really wonder how long this place is going to last. There is a small village built on an outcropping of red ochre, which as far as I can tell just seems to melt away in the rain.
I spent a few minutes together with this gray heron, sitting on a spillway where the Schüss River pours into Lac de Bienne. I like to think we were – together – quietly contemplating the temporary stillness of the universe. But most probably he was study intensely for stunned fish that fell over the spillway.
Continuing the series,