"Tour boats glide softly,
beneath cafés and willows,
boys balance with joy."
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| From 2024 09 10 Ljubljana |
Today's photo-of-the-day is from Ljubljana, Slovenia. It shows river scenes in the heart of the country's capital city. Needless to say, I love how Ljubljana's downtown features its river.
Bonus photos are after the jump.
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Artist: John Trumbull.
On July 14, 2025, the Richardson City Council held a worksession where they reviewed draft language for amendments to the City Charter. That language would be placed on the ballot in the November election for the citizens of Richardson to approve or reject.
The Charter Review Commission recommended 48 amendments. Of those only four contain substantive changes. A fifth contains a requirement that the city have an ordinance setting out a Code of Ethics. That is substantive, but because the City already has a Code of Ethics, nothing will need to change. It does prohibit any future City Council from repealing the Code, and for that it is important, maybe the most important amendment, as it emphasizes the importance of a Code of Ethics to the people of Richardson. All of the other amendments are minor changes to clarify the language or to use consistent language in different parts of the charter. The council deliberated on the four substantive amendments and reached a consensus on the direction they'd like to see the City Manager take on the final draft wording of the propositions.
On July 28 a final draft of the amendments will be presented to the council for their approval. Then, on August 11, an ordinance calling an election in November, 2025, will be presented for council's approval.
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From Wild Chocolate, by Rowan Jacobsen:
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"Containers at rest.
Order pressed against the sky.
Stacked intentions wait."
— h/t ChatGPT
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| From 2024 09 10 Ljubljana |
Today's photo-of-the-day is from Ljubljana, Slovenia. It shows stacked shipping containers at the port where our cruise ship docked. No story here, just a captivating image of geometric regularity imposed by humans on a natural landscape.
"One small capital
turns a climate tale around —
Slovenian green."
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| From 2024 09 10 Ljubljana |
Today's photo-of-the-day is from Ljubljana, "the capital and largest city of Slovenia, located along a trade route between the northern Adriatic Sea and the Danube region, inhabited since prehistoric times. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center." It's also progressive regarding its movement away from fossil fuels, judging by these snapshots from around town.
More photos after the jump.
"The tides softly play
Adriatic Sea music,
symphonies of waves."
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| From 2024 09 09 Zadar |
Today's photo-of-the-day is from Zadar, Croatia. It shows that city's Sea Organ, "an architectural sound art object located in Zadar, Croatia and an experimental musical instrument, which plays music by way of sea waves and tubes located underneath a set of large marble steps...The waves interact with the organ and create somewhat random but harmonic sounds."
More photos after the jump.
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