#aarhus Timeline

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Glædelig mandag. Just sending you a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you well.

Aarhus city centre. We’re looking at a fountain embedded directly in the ground in the harbour promenade. Thin two-metre jets of water shoot up at random intervals in big spirals. As I took this photo, all the jets are in full swish. The sun has just set, the sky is a mid-Summer light night-blue. The skyline is the cathedral spire and turrets and spires seen in silhouette. The ground at our feet is black in darkness. By contrast, lights in the fountain make the jets dazzle and sparkle with a creamy white colour. There is space between the jet spirals. Adults and children love playing in them, day and night. Inside the spirals of fountains at this moment, the silhouette of a couple standing romantically close together.

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Glædelig mandag. Just sending you a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you well.

Aarhus harbour. Taken just after sunset, after 10pm, on the summer solstice, so the sky remains light and blue. In the midsummer night light, the sea is silver-blue and the promenade gleams white. Right and along the bottom of the image: the prow and wheelhouse of the dark blue old trawler Jakob, a red-and-white lifebelt and green ropes hanging on its red-and-white funnel. Framed above the boat, the city skyline with turrets and the cathedral spire visible, not even silhouettes because of the white-nights light. A glow of fiery orange is seen behind the spire, the remains of the day, the remains of the sun.

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Glædelig mandag. Just sending you a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you well.

Water’s edge at Aarhus harbour in the city centre. Immediately in front of us, left: A big red-and-white Danish flag is fluttering in high wind off the prow of an unseen boat, anchored just out of frame to our left. A storybook-perfect little white wooden rowboat with a dark wooden trim is suspended from a polished wooden boom over the stern of another unseen boat, anchored just out of frame to our right. The flag and rowboat arch towards one another, as if greeting one other. The backdrop is deep blue sea and strong blue sky with fluffy white clouds. Beyond, a glimpse of another pier with a geodome on it. The feeling of the scene, to me: colourful, bright. Even though nothing's moving and there are no people or other animals in sight, it looks lively and invigorating.

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Glædelig mandag. Just sending you a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you well.

An outer pier, Aarhus harbour, looking back across the sea towards the city skyline. The spires and turrets and roofs and varying heights and widths of the buildings give the effect of a wavelength. The pale blue sky is low with grey and white cumulus clouds that seem to be converging and moving. The sea is green-grey, gently rippling, sprinkled with silver sparkles of sunlight. There isn’t a boat or paddleboard or swimmer or fish or seabird in sight. Foreground, between me and the water’s edge: sn uneven curve of red-brown sandy earth with wild green grass and wildflowers. Right in front of us: an empty wooden bench. This solitary bench is faced towards the city. It looks as if it is the front row seat in a cinema, waiting for someone to come along and sit down to start watching the city as if it were a film.

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Glædelig mandag. Just sending you a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you well.

Aarhus Harbour, the community promenade. In front of us, the Endless Connection fountain by artist Jeppe Hein. A large fountain with huge swirling spirals embedded in the flat open ground. Water jets two or three metres high shoot up from different spirals at different intervals, then ultimately all at once. Adults and children love to play in it – finding a space inside the spirals, playing chicken with the jets, getting happily splashed or soaked when the spiral they’ve stepped inside goes off. The sky is half overcast, half sunny. The city’s spires and turrets rise behind the fountain. In front of us, a gleaming white bench that undulates like a roller coaster frames the scene. Half the jets of water are shooting up, sparkling in the sun. In the open half where the ground is soaked but the water jets are off for a second, a young girl is spinning around with her arms stretched out on either side, as if joyfully calling on the water to come out to play.

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Monday. In a week with no festivities and five working days. Oh well. Glædelig mandag. Here's a postcard from #Aarhus to wish you a good day and a good week.

Aarhus harbour, mid-afternoon, january a year ago, just before sunset. The sky is cloudless and pastel blue with a strip of pink along the horizon. The pink is reflected in the calm sea. Beyond, to the left of the port opening, geometric skyscraper buildings - an oblong, a triangle, a clock tower - glow gold in the setting sunlight. On the industrial dock opposite, a 75 m blue harbour crane and warehouses including one whose facade is painted with a line-drawing portrait a man. Beside that, a facade painted in the colours of the Ukrainian flag. To our left, foreground, we can just see the prow of the a local sightseeting steamer, Helene of Aarhus. It is white with a red trim and festive lights twinkle on her mast. The surface of the sea right in front of us, stretching metres out from the water’s edge, is covered in a thin layer of ice. The ice has cracks in it that give the effect of a jigsaw puzzle of paving slabs.

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The second Monday of January feels even more Mondayish than the first Monday of January, somehow. Glædelig mandag, nevertheless. Here's a postcard from #Aarhus to wish you a good day and a good week.

Sunrise over the harbour, Aarhus, Denmark. A few weeks ago. The sky is light grey and white with dark grey clouds. There's a stripe of sunrise orange behind the skyline of dark buildings, cranes and a greenhouse dome on the opposite piers. The sea ripples, metal-blue. At our feet, bordering the bottom of the scene, a little mound of rocks at the edge of the promenade. Growing up from a crack between them: a little hardy plant with green leaves and tiny, pretty yellow flowers. Delicate in appearance, yet thriving in freezing cold and stone, facing open sea.

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Glædelig mandag. Today is Monday. There is a lot going on in the world. Here's a postcard from #Aarhus to wish you an uninteresting week in which nothing eventful or surprising or consequential happens.

Aerial view of Aarhus, Denmark, from the café garden on the rooftop of Salling department store. We’re 30 metres up, mid-city, looking east towards the harbour, late afternoon, a January sunset. Tall grasses on the roof frame the bottom and left of the scene. Beyond them, city roofs and landmarks including the cathedral spire, giant industrial cranes at the harbour, and tall oblong and triangular apartment blocks. The sky is cloudless and a lovely bluey-purple colour with a streak of orange-pink on the horizon line. The moon has risen, unusually bright and clear, high, the only object in the sky.

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Glædelig mandag. Just sending you a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you well.

Water’s edge, mid-city Aarhus. To the left, a pier lined by buildings in distinctive triangular and rectangular shapes. These include Kampanilen, a 19-storey red-brick apartment tower with a gigantic built-in glass window near the top that is an actual clock. Across the water, industrial cranes like giant’s chairs. The sky is light blue with wispy white clouds. The sea is rippling with luscious deep blues. Dotted around in the sea below cable tracks, bright white water-sport ramps. Alone on the water, in the middle, a wakeboarder. They have zoomed from the left towards where we’re standing, creating a wide wake of white foam that stops abruptly in front of us as they’ve just turned around to go back. An energetic sight.

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Glædelig mandag. Just sending you a postcard from #Aarhus, just to say that I hope this week treats you well.

In the gardens on top of Salling department store on the main shopping street in the centre of Aarhus. We are 30 metres above the city, looking east to the harbour and coast and open sea. Tall grasses in the roof garden frame the bottom of the image, bending in a breeze, glowing vivid green in sunlight. Beyond, the city – deep blue sea and deep blue sky, mostly clear but with low lines of fluffy white clouds low on the horizon. Between us and the sea, the city skyline, dominated by the 93-metre-high spire of the redbrick cathedral with copper-green roofs. Jutting up in different places, other landmark buildings, modern and historic. The feeling of the scene: we are peacefully a part of the city, in the heart of it, yet outside the bustle – an aerial oasis.

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I woke up and not only was it Monday, but it was still January. Oh well. Glædelig mandag anyway. Here's a postcard from #Aarhus to wish you a good day and a good week.

A December morning, not long before sunrise, water’s edge, mid-city Aarhus, Denmark. The sky is cloudless dark blue with orange on the horizon line.The sea is calm dark blue with orange reflectiobns. On the opposite piers, silhouettes of buildings and cranes in different shapes and heights. Sailing by the port opening, a gigantic cruise ship, one of those that has room for about 5000 guests. Dots of warm yellow light glow from windows in the ship and in dockland buildings. Just where we’re standing, festive lights twinkle from decorations on the stern of a boat anchored to our right and wrapped around the promenade railings. From this perspective, the railing lights criss-cross the whole bottom half of the scene and the giant ship is sailing across them.

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Happy First Monday Not In January! Glædelig mandag. Just sending you a postcard from #Aarhus to wish you a good day and a good week.

Aarhus harbour after dark during festival week at the start of September. We are standing on the promenade in front of the library, where the Samsø island ferry docks. It’s for bikes and pedestrians only. There’s no ferry right now, just the white railings of the gangway, all lit up in a criss-cross of vertical and horizontal lines. Beyond, the harbour water is calm and black below a black night sky. Across the water, historic and modern buildings are all lit up, many in rainbow colours. There is a big variation in shapes and heights, giving the illuminated skyline a sense of a wavelength. The lit-up buildings are reflected in the pond-still sea. It’s a poor, blurry, grainy, messy snapshot that no self-respecting tourist board would put on an actual postcard, but there’s party light and colour and a sense of civic festiveness, I think.

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Glædelig mandag. Yes it is Monday, but it is also the ‘Winter holiday’ here in Denmark. Our 'half-term’, when many people are off for the week. Here’s a postcard from #Aarhus to wish you a good day, a good week and – if you’re on holidays this week - god vinterferie.

The promenade, mid-city, Aarhus harbour, Denmark, a slightly snowy dawn a few weeks ago. You can't see it, but we are standing on the community basketball and football pitch that's surrounded by netting and wooden benches. We're looking through a gap between them. The bench is covered in white snow that borders the bottom of the scene in horizontal lines. The netting above is dark with big loops, framing the upper half of the scene at a cocked angle. The sky is purple-blue with a vivid orange flash on the horizon where the sun is about to rise up from behind the opposite dock. The dock is in silhouette, dominated by a 75 metre angular crane rising into the sky like a gigantic robot giraffe.

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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.

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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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