Let it snow...let it snow...let it snow.

Arona

Italy

This morning at dawn...

Arona

Italy

Arona's lake front fountain

Talking and walking

My grandson Liam (nearly 15 months)

Just a couple

Arona

Autumn

Fragments of Arona

The way we were

40th wedding anniversary yesterday...

...with my beautiful bride.

A quiet angle dear to me...

...in the city-centre of The Hague 

Holland

The apple of my eye...

...one year old next week saturday

Arona

The terrace

Stresa

 (Lake Maggiore)

Summerflowers

Codevilla

Gathering

View from my terrace

Arona

A tiny tree

Kardamena, 

Island of Kos

Greece

Irish singer and composer, Ray Heffernan

and his Grand Canal Band will hold a concert tomorrow night at 21.30 

on the stage of the wonderful Borromeo Park overlooking Arona, 

to present their latest CD. I was more than pleased when 

Ray asked me to make the photos for this album.

His songs are pure poetry.

Arona

Three little goats

View on Arona from the rock

Contrasts after the rain

Arona-centre

Sunlight of my youth...

...in the city I was born.

The Hague

Holland

Ladykiller II

My grandson Liam at 9 months

Opening up with important words

I found these words written on one of the walls of the 
splendid university (in the city of Jin Hua in the Province 
of Zhejiang), which has a total floor space of 1.000.000 
square meters (including living quarters for students) 
in the middle of 220 hectares perfectly well kept green. 
The University, which specializes in teaching education 
with multiple branches of learning, has an enrolment 
of 25.500 undergraduates and 2.650 members of 
teaching staff. The university makes strenuous 
efforts to open up to the outside world. In 
recent years ties of academic exchange
and cooperation have been set up with 

92 foreign universities and research 

 institutes in 42 countries
Jin Hua
China.

陰陽 = Yin Yang

The surname of most of the inhabitants of the Zhuge Bagua village 

is "Zhuge".Nearly all of them descend directly  from Zhu Geliang,

politician, strategist and militarist during the period of the three 

Kingdoms (184-280 AD).The layout of the village is in the 

shape of an eight-sided diagram which encircles the central 

part, which is partially composed of water and partially of 

land, both entangled with each other into the shape of two 

black and white fish. The nine different zones of the 

diagram, including the central part, represent nine 

major areas of life: prosperity and abundance, 

fame and reputation, relationships, family, health, 

creativity and children, skills and knowledge, 

career and helpful people.

Zhuge Bagua Village

Zhejiang

China

Another source of silence

Huang Shan,

China

Colours, silence and serenity

Buddhist temple in Zhejiang

China

Killing stairs...

...but so worthwhile!

There are no mountain paths in China, only up and
down going stairs!One hundred steps up, then
forty down, then eighty up and sixty down...

I have done this for nearly five hours  but
the landscape of "Yellow Mountain"
is breathtaking and is worthwhile
the effort!

Huang Shan, Province of Anhui

China

Serious talks in China

Huang Shan

China

Beautiful China...

...with its enormous contrasts

Huangh Shan 

(Yellow Mountain)

China

I am leaving for China...

...and I will stay away for about three weeks.

I will post photos from there!

Be good!

Happy Easter to all of you and to your families...

...hoping that, at least in these days, serenity for you may have the 

upper hand on everything which is happening around us!

Arona

Wine for two...

"Vinitaly" (International Wine Show),

Verona

SsssssssssPRING....!!!!!!

Arona

Sunshine in black and white

The Hague

Holland

Something different...

Freshly pruned trees on our waterfront here in Arona at dawn.

While playing a little with the colours, 

I suddenly found myself in 

Dante's Inferno.

  

Melancholy baby...

...waiting to gallop

Ladykiller...

...they all fall for him.

My grandson Liam, 6 months.

Longing for Spring 2

Traffic Jams in Venice...



Longing for Spring...

...and for its special light.

Venice

Geometric shapes

The Hague, my original hometown,

Holland

A new dawn...

...brings a new start

Arona

When you loose a brother...

...sit down under a tree,

in the silence of a remote past.

Sit down and contemplate,

but keep still,

for not to break

the thin thread

that binds him

to you.

(to my youngest brother Frans Wouter who passed away last week)



The muscle tree

Plane tree ready for Spring.

Arona

The cold strong wind of the last few days has gone.

Arona

The essential parts composing Dawn

Arona

Being close also means...

...keeping warm in winter and keeping fresh in summer.

Arizzano

Verbania