Or…… Postcards and elsewhere
Most of us inhabit just one home, live in one town, and know intimately one locality. This makes every other regions as “elsewhere”. Adventures are usually to places we’ve never been. Exploration opens seeing and sharpens our senses in newness. Sometimes reassuring dormant beliefs, sometimes reinforcing core values, yet sometimes exposing ourselves to new perspectives.
Travelogue images, …aka postcards, attempt to capture a sense of place. Postcards are often used to give context to folks back home. Mostly these images reinforce the known, learned, or the seen. Sometimes, if only rarely —they open us to the unexpected or unknown.
10th century John the Baptist is on the Bay of Biscay coast in Spain's Basque country.
On the high ridges separating the two country's borders are a clutch of small agrarian hamlets.
A seaport and village in Spain's A Coruna province located on an estuary.
Architect Frank Gehry's iconic curvilinear design of titanium, limestone, and glass revitalized Bilbao.
The Bilbao Guggenheim orthogonal exhibition spaces accommodate wide and diverse artistic projects.
A Roman Catholic Cathedral of Cordoba, under Islamic control became the 2nd largest world mosque. Alternating red brick and white arches were a Umayyad motif.
Beyond the Navia estuary on the Iberian peninsula is the forthill of Coana. Evidence dates these ruins to IV BC..
Holden Village in the Cascades.
Fiesta Pachu Mama float