Ciara (@CiaraNi@mastodon.green)

73d

I thought the library looked nice in the luscious blue twilight so I snapped a photo. As I did, this swan silently appeared out of nowhere. I assume it had just sailed out of a storybook in the library and that it does this every night when it thinks we're not looking.

#Libraries
#Bibliotek
#Aarhus

Looking from an outer pier at Aarhus harbour, Denmark, back across the water to the city skyline and Dokk1 - Aarhus Main Library. The library is a striking four-storey modern geometric building right on the waterfront with picture windows and terraces all around. The harbour water is like glass, lightly iced over in this freezing weather. The sea and cloudless sky are a deep luscious blue in the twilight this Winter day. The city buildings and the library are illuminated - although the bright lights blurry and unfocused in this snapshot, I confess. Just as I was taking the photo, a big white swan appeared out of apparently nowhere. Suddenly it was just there, sailing silently and slowly and regally. It glows bright white against the deep blue seawater just in front of us, shining alone in the otherwise empty harbour water.

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If you think I only took one photo of the storybook swan at the library, then you have another toot coming.

Same scene and motif as preceding toot, but a different angle and framing. Same AltText as in preceding image now follows, so you can skip if already heard: Looking from an outer pier at Aarhus harbour, Denmark, back across the water to the city skyline and Dokk1 - Aarhus Main Library. The library is a striking four-storey modern geometric building right on the waterfront with picture windows and terraces all around. The harbour water is like glass, lightly iced over in this freezing weather. The sea and cloudless sky are a deep luscious blue in the twilight this Winter day. The city buildings and the library are illuminated - although the bright lights blurry and unfocused in this snapshot, I confess. Just as I was taking the photo, a big white swan appeared out of apparently nowhere. Suddenly it was just there, sailing silently and slowly and regally. It glows bright white against the deep blue seawater just in front of us, shining alone in the otherwise empty harbour water.

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70d

For three days, I've been struggling to find a pretext to post another photo of the same old swan at the same old library.

I just realised it's Friday. There are at least two hundred windows in this photo.

#WindowFriday #FensterFreitag
#Aarhus @aarhus

Same swan, same library, same sumptuous Blue Hour at sunset, but taken from a different spot and angle than the preceding photos in this thread. Same full image description follows, so skip if heard. Looking from an outer pier at Aarhus harbour, Denmark, back across the water to the city skyline and Dokk1 - Aarhus Main Library. The library is a striking four-storey modern geometric building right on the waterfront with picture windows and terraces all around. The harbour water is like glass, lightly iced over in this freezing weather. The sea and cloudless sky are a deep luscious blue in the twilight this Winter day. The city buildings and the library are illuminated - although the bright lights blurry and unfocused in this snapshot, I confess. Just as I was taking the photo, a big white swan appeared out of apparently nowhere. Suddenly it was just there, sailing silently and slowly and regally. It glows bright white against the deep blue seawater just in front of us, shining alone in the otherwise empty harbour water.

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It’s been 10 days since I posted a photo of the swan at the library. Ten days. I mean. Seriously. If I’d been one of those marshmallow children, they’d have found me there in the lab weeks later, wasting away, starving, lying under a mountain of marshmallows, weakly whispering ‘no, I mustn’t, I mustn’t, not yet, no, no.'

Hohum, same swan, same library, same sunset as in the other photos in this thread. But, but, in my defence, in this photo, the swan IS FACING THE OTHER WAY. The general scene is the same, so skip following Alt Text if already heard: Looking from an outer pier at Aarhus harbour, Denmark, back across the water to the city skyline and Dokk1 - Aarhus Main Library. The library is a striking four-storey modern geometric building right on the waterfront with picture windows and terraces all around. The harbour water is like glass, lightly iced over in this freezing weather. The sea and cloudless sky are a deep luscious blue in the twilight this Winter day. The city buildings and the library are illuminated. Just as I was taking the photo, a big white swan appeared out of apparently nowhere. Suddenly it was just there, sailing silently and slowly and regally. It glows bright white against the deep blue seawater just in front of us, shining alone in the otherwise empty harbour water.

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The swan photos will continue until morale improves.

Yeah yeah same swan, same library, same sunset as in the other photos in this thread. But this time, excitingly, it's an UPRIGHT photo. But yes, otherwise, just another photo of the same moment in time, the swan now near a row of decorative rocks. Now follows the same general scene description as the other photos in the thread, so skip if already heard: Looking from an outer pier at Aarhus harbour, Denmark, back across the water to the city skyline and Dokk1 - Aarhus Main Library. The library is a striking four-storey modern geometric building right on the waterfront with picture windows and terraces all around. The harbour water is like glass, lightly iced over in this freezing weather. The sea and cloudless sky are a deep luscious blue in the twilight this Winter day. The city buildings and the library are illuminated. Just as I was taking the photo, a big white swan appeared out of apparently nowhere. Suddenly it was just there, sailing silently and slowly and regally. It glows bright white against the deep blue seawater just in front of us, shining alone in the otherwise empty harbour water.

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