Onion Domes
Day five of our river cruise finds us at Passau, Germany where the Inn and Ilz Rivers join the Danube. Passau has a lovely skyline featuring the onion domes and clock tower of St. Stephens Cathedral. Churches on this site date to the year 730 and the current 1688 baroque church replaced a 15th-century Gothic […]
Beautiful Danube Blue Hour
The sun has just dropped below the horizon along the Danube, and we enjoy the melancholy blue light of dusk. We’ve had some lovely evenings here , but last night was particularly nice. There are no particularly quaint church steeples to photograph at this instant, just a very placid scene as we pass through the […]
Pareidolia
I reflect on images I see at the Birkenau Death Camp site near Auschwitz
Oświęcim
I reflect on our visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camps
First Bear of the Season
We encounter a beautiful male black bear with a plaintive look on his face in Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Serengeti Speke’s Weavers
We encounter a tree full of Speke’s Weavers – a very interesting songbird of East Africa.
