Transatlantic Zeppelin: Springtime? Is that when they close the bars an hour early one Saturday night?

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April 04, 2005

Springtime? Is that when they close the bars an hour early one Saturday night?

The leaves aren't quite out, but after the bars closed an hour early Saturday night (on account of the time change), it's time for a round of springtime pictures. When I get back from Wine Country next week, I'll have more.

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The "Sunny Side" of Copenhagen's Nyhavn Street was formerly the domain of sailors and prostitutes, but today has been taken over by cafes occupied Scandinavian blondes and their tourist admirers (April 2004).

Flowering trees bloom outside a bastion of the walls of Maastricht, in the far southern Netherlands near the border with Germany and Belgium. The walls date to 1229 and are some of the best-preserved in Europe. (April 2004).

The South Foreland Lighthouse in Kent, England, watches over sandbars in the English Channel just beyond the white cliffs of Dover. This lighthouse was used to conduct the first transmission of Marconi's wireless.

Mustard flowers bloom in the Punakha valley of the Himalayan Mountains in Bhutan, near the Temple of the Divine Madman. I visited the temple in Feb 2003 to be blessed by a Buddhist monk holding a wooden effigy of the Divine Madman's "divine tunderbolt of wisdom," as he called his male organ.