Hometown Pictures in black & white

[momcat]

Hi Kirsten,
I can't thank you enough for the visit to your beautiful hometown! As always, your pictures are awesome and make me feel as though I'm right there along the walkways. You certainly have done it again!

Please give the lovely Luna and Lily some lovies for me?

[Sowa]

Really beautiful!

[Kirsten]

Thank you! Well, there's a reason why they're black & white. At this time of the year, there seem to be no colors left in this world, that's why the picture style setting of my camera is now on b&w. Color shots these days would just look dull and boring, but b&w can still make them interesting, and that's what I was trying to do.

[pomtzu]

You live in such a beautiful place, and the architecture is truly amazing. It's so totally different than anything we see here in the U.S.

[Karen]

They all have a lovely, timeless effect to them.

*****

Walk these cobblestones
Following the footsteps of generations past
Stop and listen
For the ghosts of laughter
And whispered conversations from long ago
That live in the mortar and spaces between the stones
Just waiting for
one
still
attentive
listener

Hold your breath
Close your eyes
And let history unfold around you
In all its pain and joy

It is here
Present
If you just breathe it in carefully

[sana]

WOOOOOWWW! Awesome photos!! Gorgeous photos (as usual )