
Széchenyi Baths, Budapest, Hungary
This image also appears in Spas Baths Hot Springs.

Kis-Balaton, Zala, Hungary
This image brings back memories of May 2011. It was my first visit to Kis-Balaton—a protected wetland habitat in SW Hungary. I’d expressed interest in visiting this place, and friends who live in the area agreed to take me. They said the best time to go is at sunset. We made it just before day’s end.
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This image is included in PhotoFriday: Day’s End. It is also included in PhotoSunday: Evening.
Italian Gardens, Hastings Park
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
This image is featured in the BluePrintReview blogzine just a moment.
Details about the appearance are here.

Taken at an indoor ice rink in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Worn at a wedding in Keszthely, Hungary. For more, go here.

The wedding was on a hot day in May in a Hungarian castle. For more, go here.

Italian Gardens, Hastings Park
East Vancouver, British Columbia

Flowers / Foliage / Signage / Recollection
For the corresponding poem > go here.
Featured in the BluePrintReview Newspaper.

One way to gain clarity is to look up …

Out my window each morning
steam greets the horizon
I hear a bird sing in
pink and violet.
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If you click the link above, you will hear, and see, a bird who sang for me in this Hungarian spa town.

Out my window each morning
steam lifts through the forest
I hear the birds sing
in green and orange.
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If you click the link above, you’ll see video of this view, and hear the birds I heard sing their tunes.

Lake Hévíz, Hévíz, Hungary.
My memory of this place never disappears, although with time, the colors fade to grey and white.
For a MicroMoment video of this mineral-rich thermal lake, go here.

This is my brother. He’s absorbing minerals through his skin in Hungary’s thermal Lake Hévíz.
Last year, I had images of this lake published in elimae—a literary journal.
This year, my videopoem inspired by the lake appeared in Moving Poems and Referential Magazine.

Italian Gardens, Hastings Park.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
This image is featured in the BluePrintReview blogzine just a moment.
Details about the appearance are here.

A community garden, Vancouver, British Columbia.
This image is featured in the BluePrintReview blogzine just a moment.
Details about the appearance are here.

Lukács Fürdő, Budapest, Hungary.
This is a circular ‘swirling pool’. Strong jets along both sides of the pool spin bathers around and around.
Also at this spa: showers and bubble stations.

Lukács Fürdő, Budapest, Hungary.
These underwater bubble stations are in high demand—firm jets of thermal water pulsate under the back, derrière, thighs, and calves.
The showers are popular too.
More about the photo here.
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This image also appears in Spas Baths Hot Springs.

Lukács Fürdő, Budapest, Hungary.
Mineral-rich medicinal water, with showers that rival the most intense deep tissue massage.
More about the photo here.
Heavenly ~
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This image also appears in Spas Baths Hot Springs.

Variegated Algerian Ivy on a trellis. Slowly, it climbs; grows tall.

Variegated Algerian Ivy on a trellis. Slowly, it climbs; grows tall.

Sweet fragrant daffodils, in full bloom, poke through astilbe leaves to say hello to you. You’re invited to my April Garden Party 2010.

Sweet fragrant daffodils, in full bloom, poke through astilbe leaves to say hello to you. You’re invited to my April Garden Party 2010.