September 14, 2012
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(written on 21 May 2013)
As I walked back home from the office (it had been raining in the morning and that’s when I take a metro to work) I noticed something that made me sigh just a bit. A red leaf. It was a leaf of one of those huge plants that climb the side of buildings, particularly in the south of the city. The thing is, those leaves are usually green. They only turn red in the autumn. And there wasn’t just one leaf (on the pavement), no there were dozens of them. It was the first real sign that, after a fairly miserable summer, the autumn is about to commence. Evenings are getting noticeably darker already but now it seems that also Mother Nature is preparing for winter. Ugh.
The picture is of one of the most picturesque parts of Amsterdam’s ancient canals; the intersection of the Leidsegracht and Keizersgracht canals. Amsterdam looked stunning today (apart from the fallen leaves) and hey, hey, it’s the weekend as well!
