Reaching further into the archives: This is part of the Dr. Sun Yet Sen garden in Vancouver from a visit there in 2010.
Luscious escape
15 Sunday Apr 2018
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Los Angeles City Hall
13 Saturday Jan 2018
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More California dreaming today … and another civic building. This time, it’s Los Angeles City Hall seen from the grounds of Grand Park in October 2013.
Tranquil escape from Berlin’s hustle and bustle
22 Friday Sep 2017
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Adjacent to Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin is a luscious urban park, a bit of an oasis embedded in the heart of Germany’s capital city. Walk past the well-manicured flower gardens adjacent to the palace buildings, above, to find something a little more untamed, like this quiet spot below. These photos are from my visit to Berlin last year.
Charming setting
29 Wednesday Mar 2017
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Bumbling around Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin
16 Wednesday Nov 2016
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Another photo from September: Just one of the many busy bees flitting from flower to flower in the vast garden outside Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin.
Charlottenburg is the largest former royal palace in the city.
Berlin Tempelhof: From airport to urban park
14 Monday Nov 2016
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The former Berlin Tempelhof Airport is a surreal green space.
It was an active commercial airfield until 2008 but since then, it’s been turned over to the people as a neat place to work and hang out.
The runways, once busy with jetliners, are now the domain of cyclists, in-line skaters and skateboarders.
The green spaces welcome kite enthusiasts (as seen above in September 2016), dog walkers and community gardeners.
There’s even a mini-golf course on site.
Some of the old airport terminal and cargo spaces are being re-used as offices, too.
This isn’t the first time the Tempelhof site has been easily accessible to the public. According to a historical article from the Berlin airport authority, the space was once used as a parade ground before it was earmarked for airport construction.
Once the airport closed, Berlin residents saved the space thanks to a referendum, the authors of the website tempelhoferfeld.info told me via Twitter.
As a result of the vote, the vast open areas won’t change very much while the area occupied by the defunct airport terminal and ancillary buildings can be developed with input from Berliners.
Definitely an instance of preservation, recreation and urban re-development working hand-in-hand.
English Garden in Munich
16 Friday Oct 2015
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On this lovely afternoon in September, I explored the southern tip of English Garden in Munich … but not before sampling a half-litre of beer and some sausages at the Chinese Tower Beer Garden inside the park.
Bounding about in the snow
05 Thursday Feb 2015
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We will never forget
08 Monday Dec 2014
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To the little girl in the pink jacket, the little patch of raised stone adorned with metallic shapes was just something else at the park for her to play with.
As she gingerly balanced herself, her mother extended a guiding hand and gently scolded her: “You can’t walk on that.”
The girl couldn’t have been older than five, couldn’t have known what her mom knew. It wasn’t any old structure in any old park on any other day.
The bits of metal spelled out Hélène Colgan, the letters adorning one of 14 stone markers for 14 young women, victims of a massacre at the University of Montreal’s École Polytechnique in 1989.
Saturday, Dec. 6, marked a quarter century since this horrific act of violence.
The little girl and her family were among many who passed through this long, narrow memorial park just a stone’s throw from the university.
Flowers and candles paid silent tribute to so many lives lost far too soon.
Monday afternoon at the park
14 Friday Nov 2014
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This quaint green space is along Hornsgatan in Södermalm, Stockholm, not far from the Slussen T-bana (metro) station — a neat place to take it easy on a Monday afternoon. Snapped this on my visit there this summer.
