Riet's photoblog

Shadow shot Sunday 2.

2012-01-28T10:44:00.001-08:00

Shadow Shot Sunday 2 is hosted by 3 different ladies: Gemma, Rose and Magical mystical teacher.Go and have a look. Thank you ladies
This is the link : .http://shadowshotsunday2.blogspot.com/

I made a collage of photo’s I took in Amsterdam in October. You can see a lot of shadows as it was a nice and sunny day.

For more shadowshots go here: http://shadowshotsunday2.blogspot.com/

I am also linking this post to Mosaic Monday, hosted by Mary from "The little red house" http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/

Pink Saturday.

2012-01-27T10:41:00.001-08:00

Pink Saturday is like every week hosted by Beverly from “How sweet the sound” Thank you Beverly.

I made this little collage with these sweet smelling hyacinths, some dried roses and a lovely door hanger. All in my favorite color pink.

For more lots of pink go to Beverly’s blog :http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/

Happy pink Saturday.

Skywatch Friday.

2012-01-26T10:25:00.001-08:00

Skywatch over Rotterdam.
For skywatch Friday I have a series of photo´s I made last Saturday at sunset. Actually there are two times four photo´s with a time difference of 10 minutes. Between the photo’s is only a few seconds. First I saw this sky so I made photo´s and then 10 minutes later the sky was even more beautiful. So more photo´s.
Here they are.

10 minutes later I saw this, the sky was pink and black.

For more Skywatch photo´s from all over the world go here: http://skyley.blogspot.com/

Alphabe Thursday.

2012-01-25T10:38:00.001-08:00

This week we had to study the letter J for Ms Matlocks class. http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/

It was a very difficult letter, not Joking. Difficult Job. But I found a few photo’s to go with these J words. Like Jumbo, or Jam or Just a couple, maybe their names are Jack and Jill or maybe Jenny and Jayson. Who knows.

There were also these words like Jag or Jelly or Journey or Joint.

It is a real Joy Joining Alphabe Thursday hosted by Jenny Matlock. http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/
See you next week.

Mosaic and Blue Monday.

2012-01-22T11:00:00.001-08:00

This week I am linking my mosaic to Mary from :”The little red house” and Blue Monday from “Smiling Sally”

Thank you to the hosts of these wonderful blogs .

Since I am not taking many photo’s these days due to the rain and grey weather all the time I am using photo’s from my archives. These beautiful blues I made last summer when we were visiting England.

For Mosaic Monday go here : http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/

for blue Monday go here: http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

Shadow Shot Sunday.

2012-01-21T06:57:00.000-08:00

Shadow Shot Sunday is hosted by Hey Harriet.

Made this photo last October in the south of France.Can't miss the shadows.

For more shadowshot go here : http://heyharriet.blogspot.com/

Skywatch Friday.

2012-01-19T10:41:00.001-08:00

Two days ago we had this beautiful sunrise. This was at about 8.15 a.m.
At 10 a.m. the sky was like this.. You can see that on photo 2.
Photo 3 was at about the same time but on the south side view.
It was the beginning of a beautiful day.

For more beautiful skies go here : http://skyley.blogspot.com/
Thank you to our hosts.

Alphabe Thursday.

2012-01-18T13:44:00.000-08:00

This week we study the letter I for Ms Matlocks class.
I found many words but the first word that came to my mind was Internet. What would we do without It. No blogging, no friends all over the world, a most boring life possibly. Can't Imagine how that would be.

As I said I found many words but I used only a few to go with my collage.
How about Impression, just walls left of what used to be a beautiful home.
And most certainly many Interesting books in this beautiful library.
Through that door you go Inside the mansion.
Beautiful flowers here and Included I found the lovely Impatiens.
And how about this Incredible diningroom. I try to Imagine how people Invited friends for dinner Inside their beautiful home.Sorry to say I don't know the Indentity of the people on the paintings.
Just used my Imagination .

Now that Is It for this week.

For more alphabe Thursday go to Ms Jennies blog : http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Alphabe-Thursday

See you next week.

Blue Monday.

2012-01-15T10:52:00.001-08:00

Blue Monday is hosted by Sally from”Smiling Sally”

This photo I made a few weeks ago in a friends garden. I love this kind of blue. So beautiful.

For more beautiful blue go to Sallies blog. http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

Pink Saturday.

2012-01-13T12:20:00.000-08:00

Pink Saturday is hosted by Beverly from "How sweet the sound" http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/pink-saturday/

Just before Christmas I got these beautiiful pink roses. I was so happy with them.

For more lots of pink go to Beverly's blog.
Happy pink Saturday

Skywatch Friday..

2012-01-12T10:45:00.000-08:00

Yesterday we had this beautiful sunrise and a few hours ago near half past five we had this remarkable sunset. Had to run for my camera and open the window to make these pictures because the sky changes every second.
Sunrise:

For sunset I have these two photo's, didn't know which one to choose to post.

For more skyphoto's from all over the world go here: http://skyley.blogspot.com/

Alphabe Thursday.

2012-01-11T05:11:00.000-08:00

This week we need to study the letter H for Ms Matlock's class. I found a lot and I am showing some Here in this collage.

I found, let me show you:

Houses, in Amsterdam, all different,
Horses, mother and baby
Hydrangea, Hot chocolate, Hen, Harbour,
Heavenly smelling rose,
Hats for a Napoleon festival in Valence,
Hydrangea, a big bush
Hat, one like Napoleon
and
Hands, a work of art in the Keukenhof here in Holland.

I Hope you like my photo's.

For more about Alphabe Thursday go here: http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Alphabe-Thursday

Mosaic and blue Monday.

2012-01-08T10:23:00.000-08:00

For mosaic Monday I made this mosaic of some of the pictures I made in the last few months of 2011. Mosaics of earlier months I showed in the last week of December.

Mosaic Monday is hosted by Mary from "The little red house. http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/

For Blue Monday I chose a few pictures I made last summer during a drive in the country.

Blue Monday is hosted by Sally from "Smiling Sally" http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

Pink Saturday.

2012-01-06T11:00:00.000-08:00

PInk Saturday is hosted by Beverly from " How sweet the sound" http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/

Some weeks ago I passed this bakery shop. In the window I saw these beautifully decorated cupcakes. I couldn't keep staring. I never saw any so beautiful like these. Don't you agree?
I might go follow a workshop with my granddaughters there. A surprise for them.

And these.

For more lots of beautiful pink go to Beverly's blog.http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/

Happy pink Saturday

Skywatch Friday.

2012-01-05T10:31:00.000-08:00

Two days ago I saw this beautiful sky. I made a few photo's en I chose these two to show here for Skywatch Friday. The time difference was just a few seconds.

For more skywatch photo's go here: http://skyley.blogspot.com/

Alphabe Thursday.

2012-01-04T07:28:00.000-08:00

Happy NewYear to all of you.
Ms Matlock want us to study the letter G this week.

You Guessed it already, not too difficult.

No need to Guess what the photo's say. Here they are,

Green Green Grass, Canada Geese, nosy Goat, Gorgeous Grapes and that lovely little baby Goat.

For more Alphabe Thursday go to Ms Jenny's blog. http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com

Pink Saturday.

2011-12-30T08:20:00.000-08:00

Pink Saturday is hosted by Beverly from "How sweet the sound". Thank you Beverly.

Today I have two collages of photo's I made this year. They both have pink in it and mostly my favorites of all, pink roses. It was so much fun looking back. Lovely memories.

For more lots of pink go to Beverly's blog. http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/

Happy New Year everybody .

, Alphabe Thursday

2011-12-27T07:45:00.000-08:00

For today I made a red collage. The weather here is dark and dreary so I needed a little color here on my blog. It is also to wish you all a happy, prosperous and healthy 2012.

I am also dedicating this post to Alphabe Thursday hosted by Jenny Matlock.

For more Alphabe Thursday go to Jennies blog.
http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Alphabe-Thursday

Riet

Pink Saturday.

2011-12-23T07:07:00.000-08:00

Pink Saturday is like every week hosted by Beverly from"How sweet the sound" Thank you Beverly for being our host every Saturday.

Beverly wanted to see Christmas and pink in this weeks posts so of course I 'll do that. This is the pink I found this morning.

For more lots of pink go here: http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY
and happy Pink Saturday.

Alphabe Thursday.

2011-12-21T12:35:00.000-08:00

I am very sorry but when you get to this post of this last week please go to my ;ast blog of today. I didn;t link in properly, I d have another new New Years post.
For more Alphabe Thursday blogs go here: http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Alphabe-Thursday

Outdoor Wednesday.

2011-12-20T11:31:00.000-08:00

Susan the host from A Southern daydreamer, http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/ asked for outside and inside decoration photo's on our blogs.

I like to start with an outside photo which I took exactly one year ago. I know because it was our 50th weddinganniversary and tomorrow (Wednesday the 21st) it will be our 51th. There was a lot of snow in December last year . No snow this year, just rain and not so cold. I don't really mind.:)))

It says Happy Holidays and a prosperous 2012.

Now for the inside decorations I made a collage of some photo's I made in my home these last few days.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYBODY.

Riet

Our world Tuesday.

2011-12-19T11:37:00.000-08:00

Today the second series of my Christmastree decorations and some photo's from my home. As I said yesterday I will be showing Christmas in my house all week.

This is the link for lots more our world photo´s.http://ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.com/

Mosaic and blue Monday.

2011-12-18T10:49:00.000-08:00

Mosaic Monday is hosted by Mary from "The little red house" http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/

This week I am going to show some Christmas in my home.

Today I have a mosaic of some of my favorite Christmastree decorations .They bring back memories of Christmasses passed. Most of them I got in exchanges and some are beautifully stitched. Some I remember because I bought them at places we visited like Disney in Florida.

Blue Monday is hosted by Sally from "Smiling Sally" http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

Decorations in my home and some blue in the sky Sally.

Have a happy soon to be Christmas week.
Riet

Skywatch Friday.

2011-12-15T10:38:00.000-08:00

For Skywatch Friday I have two photo's. Didn't know which to choose so I show both here.

First is a sunrise,

and this next one I took just before sunset, one day last week.

http://skyley.blogspot.com/

Alphabe Thursday

2011-12-14T10:32:00.000-08:00

This week we study the letter F for Ms Matlock's class.

I Found Fall. Definitely Fall colors.

And I Found Fair. Fairs are always Fun

For more Alphabe Thursday go here: http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com

Have a nice week.

Mosaic and blue Monday.

2011-12-11T09:38:00.000-08:00

Mosaic Monday is hosted by Mary from :The little red house". http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/

In these dark days I just wanted to make a colorfull mosaic. These beautiful flowers were just right for it.

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Blue Monday is hosted by Sally from "Smiling Sally". http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

Last week friends who came to dinner gave me this beautiful bouquet.

Have a happy Monday.

Alphabe Thursday.

2011-12-07T08:08:00.000-08:00

This week we study the letter E for Ms Matlock's class. So here we go. This is my Entrance:

E is for Endless sea.
E is for Exterior of this beautiful English college building.
E is for Elephant.
E is for Entrance of the Estate
E is for Estate .

And I have an Extra:
An English country garden.

This is Enough for this week's letter E.

http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/ This is the link for Alphabe Thursday.

PInk Saturday.

2011-12-02T10:47:00.000-08:00

A few days ago we had friends for dinner and as a good Dutch custom they brought a beautiful bouquet of flowers. It says Christmas all over but it also has a beautiful pink flower in it. It is called suikerbossie. It is the national flower of South Africa. I never saw it before. The white ones are amarylisses. I forgot the names of the red berris and the little dark red plant.

Beautiful isn't it?

Pink Saturday is hosted by Beverley from "How sweet the sound"
http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/

Skywatch Friday.

2011-12-01T10:25:00.000-08:00

Last week we had a wonderful clear day with a beautiful sunrise at about 8 AM and an even so beautiful sunset round 5 PM. I had my camera standby so photo's were made.
Sunrise here.

Sunset here.

Here is the link for skywatch Friday. http://skyley.blogspot.com/

Alphabe Thursday.

2011-11-30T10:42:00.000-08:00

Last week I sent in my D words for ms Jenny's class. I forgot because of Thanksgiving there was no class. I looked for another D word for this week is and I found Daffodil..
Seeing Daffodils makes me long for spring. Don't you want spring?

If you want to see my post from last week just scroll down a bit.

http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/. This is the,link for more Alphabe Thursday posts.

Have a nice week.
Riet

Our world Tuesday.

2011-11-28T10:53:00.000-08:00

The week before last we went to the beach in a little village called Noordwijk. The beach and the dunes are beautiful there and of course the North Sea .I spent many a day there when I was young but mostly in the summer.
This day it was cold and windy but there was a clear blue sky and some sun so it was good for walking. That's what we did.

For more our world photo's go here : http://ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.com/

Pink Saturday.

2011-11-25T10:35:00.000-08:00

Pink Saturday is hosted by Beverly from :How sweet the sound"

Two days ago my friend and I had a High Tea in a lovely tearoom. It was delicious. All of it.
Here a little impression of the tearoom in and outside and what we were surprised with.
I must say that the little tarts on the big plate were fake but they looked so real. Unbelievable. They were handmade the lady said. and for sale.

This is the link to Beverly's blog where you can find lots of pink. http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/

Alphabe Thursday.

2011-11-23T10:29:00.000-08:00

For Alphabe Thursday hosted by Ms Jenny Matlock we have to study the letter D this week.
I found quite a few words beginning with D, could not
Decide which ones to show so I made a collage.

Let me explain:

By now everybody knows I am Dutch so the first photo is more or less a Dutch country sight.
Then we have this statue of the Dancing girls
This beautiful Delft blue vase,
The Ducks on a little island,
The Darling kissing Dolls,
The Dunes ,
The Delicatessen shop,
That large Door
and the beautiful swimming Dogs.

For more Alphabe Thursday letters go here : http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/

Riet

Our world Tuesday.

2011-11-21T10:36:00.000-08:00

These last few weeks I have been so busy and tired that I have not been posting much. So I am using photo's I made this time last year while walking in a beautiful little park. Many different mushrooms and I am sorry to admit that I don't know their names. But I think they are all beautiful.

Here you can find a lot more photo's from around the world.
http://ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.com/

Pink Saturday

2011-11-18T11:36:00.000-08:00

Pink Saturday is hosted by Beverly of :" How sweet the sound"

Today I have photo's of more pink flowers I received from friends last week.

For more lots of pink go to Beverly's blog: http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/
Happy pink Saturday.

Alphabe Thursday.

2011-11-16T00:40:00.000-08:00

Alphabe Thursday is hosted by Ms Jenny Matlock. This week we study the letter C.
I found some words and photo's to go with them.

C is for Chinese, and Cross, and Church, and Café, and Cocoa with whipped Cream. Mmmmm

See you next week.

http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/ This is the link for Alphabe Thursday.

Shadow Shot Sunday.

2011-11-12T09:05:00.000-08:00

For Shadow shot Sunday hosted by HeyHarriet.
I have a photo of this beautiful old windmill .As you can see in the top it was built in 1740. It is one of the 19 mills situated in Kinderdijk, the place that is on the world heritage list.The second photo shows some more of the windmills. We were there on a very sunny day last summer as you can see.

If you would like to learn more about Kinderdijk I have the link here for you.
http://www.stichting-kinderdijk.nl/

For more shadow shots go here : http://heyharriet.blogspot.com/

Pink Saturday.

2011-11-11T11:36:00.000-08:00

Pink Saturday is hosted by Beverly from "How sweet the sound"

Last weekend we had several friends visiting us and I received a few beautiful bouquets. I made photo's and I have three of one bouquet from different sides because it is so beautiful.

Beautiful don't you think?

For more lots of pink go to Beverly;s blog. http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/

Skywatch Friday.

2011-11-10T10:17:00.000-08:00

Last week we had a beautiful sunrise and sunset. I alway have my camera ready so here I have the photo's. Perfect for Skywatch Friday.

Sunrise on the 5th,

Sunset on the 4th of November.

For more skywatch photo's from all over the world go here : http://skyley.blogspot.com/

Alphabe Thursday.

2011-11-09T10:29:00.000-08:00

This week we have to study the letter B for Ms Matlock's class. I have photo's to go with the B words I found.

A Blue Bike.

And a Bridge and Bikes.

And a Boat and Bikes on the Bridge

And then there were lots of Bicycles, bicycles, bicycles and people sitting on Benches.

And a Beautiful Bird with lots of Blue.

And a Butterfly with white and Blue.

For more B words go here: http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/

Our world Tuesday;

2011-11-07T10:47:00.000-08:00

Many trees around us have this beautiful color. So this is my world today. Red and even redder.

For more photo's from all over the world go here : http://ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.com/

Shadow Shot Sunday.

2011-11-05T08:12:00.000-07:00

Shadow Shot Sunday is hosted by Hey Harriet.

I have two shadow photo's from Spain when we were there in September. This first photo is of a little narrow street in a medieval village called Pals. Most streets in these old villages are very narrow so they give a lot of shadow in the summer.

Isn't this bougainville gorgeous? I love that color.

For more shadow photo's go here : http://heyharriet.blogspot.com/

Alphabe Thursday.

2011-11-02T13:54:00.000-07:00

Alphabe Thursday is hosted by Ms Jenny Matlock. This week we study the letter A Again. I found a few words. So here we go.

Letter A goes for Anne Frank in Amsterdam. This is her statue.

And A is for Appels.

And A is for Autumn leaves.

For more Alphabe Thursday go here : http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/

Outdoor Wednesday

2011-11-01T12:35:00.000-07:00

Outdoor Wednesday is hosted by Susan of http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/

For outdoor Wednesday I am using some photo's I made the year before last also in the beginning of November. Most of them were made in Barendrecht where we lived then.

Mosaic and blue Monday.

2011-10-30T11:54:00.000-07:00

Mosaic Monday is hosted by Mary of "The little red House"

While we stayed in the park in Spain these two doves came visiting every day and they were always fighting. That day they were so angry that they didn't see me making these photo's.

For more mosaics go here: http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/

Blue Monday is hosted by Sally of "Smiling Sally"

These photo's I made in Amsterdam. A real Amsterdam sight: An advertising pillar and bikes locked together.

Then these next photo's I made in Spain in the butterfly and bird park. The bird is the pet of this young lady who works in the entrance of the park. She talks to him and he talks back. When she miauws he does that too. He goes where she goes and sits at her desk all the time. Takes your money and gives it to her. LOL. I had to stay a while and take photo's. It was so funny.

For more blue go to Sally's blog : http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

Shadow Shot Sunday.

2011-10-29T09:44:00.000-07:00

This is the second time I participate in Shadow Shot Sunday and it is such fun. So here I have two photo's I took in Spain in a medieval little village called Pals.

For more Shadow Shot Sunday participants and photo's go here: http://heyharriet.blogspot.com/

Weekend reflections.

2011-10-28T09:59:00.000-07:00

Weekend reflections is hosted by James.

I love reflections and here my reflection photo is in Amsterdam of the houses at one of the canals. Hope you can find the reflections in the windows.

Here is te link. http://weekendreflection.blogspot.com/

Skywatch Friday.

2011-10-27T11:23:00.000-07:00

This morning at about quarter past seven we had this beautiful sunrise. Of course I had to make photo's of it. This one was the last of a series. Have a look.

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For more skywatch photo's from all over the world go here: http://skyley.blogspot.com/

Alphabe Thursday.

2011-10-26T11:20:00.000-07:00

Anything autumn for Alphabe Thursday so here I go.
Last year, also in October, we visited friends who live in a beautiful farmhouse in the middle of the country. I made lots of photo´s then and I thought it was a good idea to put some of them in collages.The weather was still very nice but the fallen leaves show that winter was coming.

http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/ For more Alphabe.

Outdoor Wednesday.

2011-10-25T11:25:00.000-07:00

Last week we went for a walk in this lovely little park. This is what we saw.

Outdoor Wednesday is hosted by Susan of A Southern Daydreamer.

For lots more outdoor photo's go here: http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/

Mosaic and blue Monday.

2011-10-23T11:04:00.000-07:00

Mosaic Monday is hosted by Mary of http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/

While in Spain last month I visited a beautiful butterfly and bird park. I made lots of photo's and here I am showing some of them in mosaics.

The host of Blue Monday is Sally of http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

Shadow Shot Sunday.

2011-10-22T07:34:00.000-07:00

Through Maggie from "Normandy Life" I found this new (for me) meme Shadow shot Sunday which is hosted by Hey Harriet.

Thought I would give it a try.

These photo's I made when we stayed in the Ardeche in the south of France a few weeks ago.

I made this photo in a little medieval village called Loriol.

Our hotel was here at the foot of the mountain in the village Le Pouzin. Beautiful.

For more shadow shots go here: http://heyharriet.blogspot.com/

Pink Saturday

2011-10-21T11:05:00.000-07:00

As every week Saturday is for many of us Pink Saturday. So also for me.
I am running out of pink now and then , also this week so I went through my files and made a collage of some summer photo's from last year.

Pink Saturday is hosted by Beverly . See the link here > http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog

Skywatch Friday.

2011-10-20T12:21:00.000-07:00

This evening while having dinner with our grandchildren we saw these different skies in about 45 minutes times.
First the rainbow , one very clear and there is a very soft one next to it. A bit later, sunset with dark clouds and the last one our 12 year old granddaughter made when it was dark.

For more skywatch photo's from all over the world go here : http://skyley.blogspot.com/

Outdoor Wednesday.

2011-10-18T12:57:00.000-07:00

Amsterdam part 2.

Today I am showing you more photo's of Amsterdam, today not the canals round the centre where later the rich lived but more of the old centre where Amsterdam was founded round the 13th century. It started its existance as a little fishing village and draws its name from the river Amstel. There are not many houses left of that time because houses were built of wood and easily got burnt until it was forbidden to do so.

Lovely facades on those narrow houses. Little boats in every canal in Amsterdam.

Did I mention bycicles?

café near the market

for sale.

All for sale on the Nieuwmarkt.

On the back is the St Nicolaaschurch.St Nicolaas is the patron of the men at sea and many churches are called after him.

It was a beautiful sunny day so everywhere the terraces in front iof the café's and restaurants were full with relaxing people drinking a beer or a glass of wine.

'Look at the facades.

Aren't the facades of these houses beautiful?

It was a busy day in Amsterdam. There was a marathon going on so many visitors.

Outdoor Wednesday is hosted by Susan at :http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/

Our world Tuesday.

2011-10-17T08:36:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we visited the city of Amsterdam with very good friends. They both have lived here in their youth and come here to shop at least once a month .I am sure everybody knows of Amsterdam. I will show you what I saw.
So we walked a lot, rested a lot and made lots of photo's. We only visited the old centre of the city because that was all we could do on one day.There is so much to see in beautiful Amsterdam. I am going to show you a few of the photo's I made now and will show more in the coming days. These are all made round the world famous canals with their beautiful houses.

You will notice that it is a very busy city and that there are thousands of bikes around as everybody in Holland owns one so also in Amsterdam with its many students. I will show more bikes next time.

This is the famous Westerkerk (Westerchurch) in Amsterdam.

For more our world photo's go here : http://ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.com/

Pink Saturday

2011-10-14T11:14:00.000-07:00

Pink Saturday is hosted by Beverly of "How sweet the sound" Thank you Beverly.

I had to look good to find some pink pictures for today. But I found some and made a collage. All flowersin Spain and that one very old street in that very old town in Spain where I saw that pink house. Look how narrow those old streets often are , a truck can hardly go through it and when you walk in the street and the truck comes around you better get your back to the walls or your feet are not safe. :)))

PLease click once or twice on photo to enlarge.

For more lots of pink go here: http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog

Skywatch Friday.

2011-10-13T10:52:00.000-07:00

This sky I saw somewhere near the end of August right in front of my window. Good for Skywatch Friday.

For more sky photo's from all over the world go here : http://skyley.blogspot.com/

Outdoor Wednesday.

2011-10-11T10:55:00.000-07:00

For outdoor Wednesday I chose some photo's of different ancient little villages in North East Spain.

Please click once or twice on photo's to enlarge .

See how narrow these old streets are, when the truck goes through the street there is hardly room for walkers.

http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/. < This is the link for Outdoor Wednesday hosted by Susan.

Mosaic and blue Monday

2011-10-09T07:48:00.000-07:00

Mosaic Monday is hosted by Mary of ""The little red house"

All this rain yesterday and today makes me want to go back to the sun right away. So some beach photo's here in a mosaic.

THis is the link for Mary's blog http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/

And for blue Monday hosted by Sally of "Smiling Sally" I have some more water photo's . That water is so blue over there.

For more blue go to Sally's blog.
http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

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2011-10-05T23:26:00.000-07:00

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Riet.
My last post was for Alphabe Thursday, down here.

Alphabe Thursday.

2011-10-05T11:45:00.000-07:00

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This week we have to study the letter Y for Ms Matlocks class.

I found a few words and I have photo's to go with them.

like;

Yucca, the tree,

Yellow, the bird and the leaves,

Young, the beautiful little filly.

And Yes an extra photo of mother and baby horse.

Go here for more Alphabe posts. http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/

See you next week .

Riet

Watery and outdoor Wednesday.

2011-10-04T13:09:00.000-07:00

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This week I am linking my photo's to both memes Watery and outdoor Wednesday.

Yesterday we visited this beautiful nature park here in the neighbourhood. We were here in spring when there were lots of young storks on their nests. All those nests were empty now but we found another part of the park where we saw all this. So beautiful. I love flamingo's and here were so many next to the storks and the several sorts of ducks Need I say more.

For Watery Wednesday go here:

http://waterywednesday.blogspot.com/

For Outdoor Wednesday go here:
http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/

Mosaic and blue Monday.

2011-10-02T13:14:00.000-07:00

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.Mosaic Monday is hosted by Mary of "The little red house". http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/

Today I am going to take you to the medieval city of Pals. This little city is built on a hill so we are going up a lot of steps. I only have one "step-photo"today but more will follow.
All the buildings and houses are still like they were built in the olden days. They are all on monuments lists.

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This blue bike stood on a balcony and that lovely color blue was all over the bike, the saddle, the wheels, the lot.Someone must have loved that color blue.

Blue Monday is hosted by Sally of "Smiling Sally".

http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

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PInk Saturday.

2011-09-30T11:37:00.000-07:00

Today we visited a little old village called Pals . I made many photo's but I needed some with pink so here are only a few. In the coming days I am going to show more of this beautiful very old village and of some more of these sort of villages.

The village may be so small but there always and everywhere are souvenir shops. So here as well.

And I almost forgot, there was a gelateria with the most delicious icecream. I had chocolate and tiramisu taste.Yummy.

Pink Saturday is like every week hosted by Beverly of "How sweet the sound" Thank you Beverly.
http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog

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Alphabe Thursday.

2011-09-28T11:52:00.000-07:00

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Today we have to study the letter X for Ms Matlock's class. Now that is a very difficult letter but I found a word : X-tra. This is an Xtra special collage of photo's I made in one of my favorite shops here in Spain. It is a ceramics shop, more an Xtra large shop with so many beautiful ceramics. I can spend hours there. Let me tell you some more.
The ceramics town of La Bisbal d'Emporda has been a major centre for the production of ceramics since the 18th century. Is is famed internationally for prodocing a wide variety of ceramics from tradional earthenware and decorative pottery to paving tiles , garden pots and building materials.
As I love teacups and dinner ware I am in heaven when I am in just this one shop. And let me tell you there are so many of them all selling beautiful ceramics.
These photo's show only a little of what this shop sells. It is loaded. This is just an impression.
And by the way, I didn't buy anything yesterday.
See you next week.

Please click twice on the photo and everything will be very clear to see.
Riet

For more Alphabe posts go here : http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/

Watery and Outdoor Wednesday

2011-09-27T10:29:00.000-07:00

All these photo's I made in the bay of Rosas. The water is unbelievably blue. The mountains in the back are the Spanish Pyrenees.

For more water photo's go here : http://waterywednesday.blogspot.com/

For more outdoor Wednesday photo's go here : http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/

Mosaic and blue Monday.

2011-09-25T12:01:00.000-07:00

Mosaic Monday is hosted by Mary of "http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/

Yesterday we passed some horse stables and a young girl was training this beautiful horse.We stayed a while and of course I had to take some photo's They were all taken when he was galoping around.

Blue Monday is hosted by Sally of http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

Also yesterday we visited this fishermans harbour in Roses, Spain. There was a lot of blue to see and fish to eat...

Riet

Pink Saturday.

2011-09-23T11:46:00.001-07:00

Pink Saturday is hosted by Beverly of “How sweet the sound”
I believe in many countries it is apple picking time.. Ripe apples everywhere, so also here in Spain. I made lots of photo’s but I picked a few with pink colored apples to show on Pink Saturday .

For lots more pink go here: http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/

Alphabe Thursday.

2011-09-21T11:40:00.001-07:00

For ms Matlocks class we need to study the letter W this week. I chose the Words, Windows, Walls and Water.

The photo’s of the windows are all made in England, the ones of the water are made in Spain.

Notice the left bottom photo , there are just windows and walls left of this very old mansion.

For more alphabe letters go here: http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/

See you next week.

Outdoor Wednesday.

2011-09-20T12:19:00.001-07:00

Outdoor Wednesday is hosted as every week by Susan of “ A southern daydreamer” Thank you Susan.

Most of you know we are on holidays . We are in the northern part of Spain , a bit Spanish Pyrenees and a bit Costa Brava. Today we went for a drive around the place where we stay for some time. The weather is still beautiful , thank goodness for that.

I took a lot of photo’s and I made a collage of a few of them just to show a bit of what I saw today. I will show a lot more of this part Spain in the coming weeks. There are the mountains with little very old villages, there is the beach, there is the countryside. Lots to see .

For more outdoor photo’s go to Susan’s blog: http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/

Have a nice day and hope to see you again.

Mosaic Monday.

2011-09-18T11:25:00.001-07:00

For mosaic Monday I have a few photo’s of the neighborhood where we are staying now.

Mosaic Monday is hosted by Mary of The little red house. Thank you Mary.
Riet

Pink Saturday.

2011-09-16T13:36:00.001-07:00

Pink Saturday is hosted by Beverly of “How sweet the sound”
I want to show a photo I made in the city of Valence in France last weekend. Would you believe that there are still people living in this old house. It is in a very old neighborhood and I love what they do to make it look a bit brighter . Paint it pink and blue. Lovely.

Happy pink Saturday.
Riet

Skywatch Friday.

2011-09-15T11:02:00.000-07:00

While in our hotelroom in Valence( see my last post) , I saw this beautiful sunset. The sky behind the mountains had large pieces of white, very special I thought. A few minutes later I looked again and then suddenly most of the white had turned into a stunning red. Beautiful.

For more skywatch photo’s from all over the world go here : http://skyley.blogspot.com/

Alphabe Thursday.

2011-09-14T12:20:00.000-07:00

For Ms Matlocks class we need to study the letter V this week. I found many words but I will use a few in todays blog. I say Vacation, Vacance, View , Vintage and Valence. And they all go for the photo’s of today’s post.
On day two of our trip to Spain we stopped in the beautiful city of Valence.
It is a very old city as I will show you here with a few photo’s.

See the shoes in the window.

This was the view from our hotelroom window. The river Rhone.
For more Alphabe Thursday blogs go here: http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/
See you next week.
Riet

Outdoor Wednesday.

2011-09-13T12:24:00.001-07:00

This weekend we started our vacation .We traveled to Spain. It is a long ride so most of the days we see green and roads. On Saturday we drove to Nancy, a beautiful city. That was our first stop. We didn’t see much of the city because we were rather late. I hope we will go back one day. I made only one photo of the city from our hotelroom. It is on the right of my collage down here.

Day two we drove through a beautiful part of France, The Vogezen. I don’t know what it is called in English. It was wonderful to see how the trees are changing colors at this time of year.I love those different shades of green and golden. I made many many photo’s but all from the car so they are not the best in the world. France is such a beautiful country.

For more outdoor photo’s go here : http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/

PLease click to enlarge photo's.

This collage is just of a few things we saw on the roads. Please click to enlarge photo.

Skywatch Friday.

2011-09-08T10:28:00.000-07:00

This is the time of the beautiful skies. A few days ago at sunset I saw this here right out of my window.
Of course good for Skywatch Friday.

For more skywatch photo’s go here : http://skyley.blogspot.com/

Alphabe Thursday.

2011-09-07T10:05:00.000-07:00

This week we have to find words beginning with the letter U for ms Matlocks class.
I found a few but I go for one word only this time. It is Up-the-stairs.

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Note that the stairs on the top left are going nowhere. Just for show.)) There is really nothing it can go to. I took this photo in the south of France. The rest of them were made in English gardens.
That is all for this week. For more U photo’s go here: http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/
Riet

Outdoor and Watery Wednesday.

2011-09-06T11:01:00.000-07:00

For outdoor Wednesday I made a collage of a few photo’s I made of gates and walkthroughs during our visits in the English gardens.

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A closer look.

For more lots of outdoor photo’s go to Susan’s blog :http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/

WATERY WEDNESDAY.

Here a photo of this beautiful black swan. I find black swans so special, I really have not seen many.

For more Watery photo’s go here : http://waterywednesday.blogspot.com/

Mosaic and Blue Monday.

2011-09-04T10:45:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I visited an art fair here in the neighborhood. There were different artists with their work, some very nice. I show some photo’s to give a little impression.
Mosaic Monday is hosted by Mary of The little red House.
Ceramic.

Would you believe this is ceramic and not leather. I had to feel it to believe it.

And my favorite ceramic. Such a beautiful color green.

Such gorgeous little ceramic stuff.

This lady sold the most beautiful hand colored silk. She also made clothes in any size and color you want. Just beautiful.

Several beautiful paintings. I loved these colored ones.

Lots of blue for Blue Monday here so I am also linking this to Sally’s blog” Smiling Sally”.
Riet.

Pink Saturday.

2011-09-02T11:31:00.000-07:00

It’s Saturday again so pink Saturday it is. This meme is as every week hosted by Beverly of “How sweet the sound” Thank you Beverly.

I have here more pink flower photo’s from the first oh so beautiful garden we went to in England, Hidcote, near Chipping Cambden in the Cotswolds.

For more lots of pink go to Beverly’s blog. There is a list of all the participants. http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/my_weblog/pink-saturday/

Happy pink Saturday.
Riet

Skywatch Friday.

2011-09-01T10:51:00.001-07:00

A few days ago we had some heavy weather. There were lots of clouds but the sun still wanted to come through. This is what sky looked like over Rotterdam near sunset.
I am linking this to Skywatch Friday

Please click on photo's to enlarge.

For more skywatch photo’s go here: http://skyley.blogspot.com/

Alphabe Thursday.

2011-08-31T11:14:00.000-07:00

This week we have to find words beginning with the letter T for Ms Jenny Matlocks class.
I found quite a few and here they are:
Three trees.

and a Tiger

And teaservice and teaspoons

and teacups and teacup tower

and of course Tulips.

This lovely little hanging doll I bought here. I am not sure if it is supposed to be a tulip but I am going to call her Miss Tulip.
http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/
That’s all for this week.
Riet

Watery and outdoor Wednesday.

2011-08-30T11:55:00.000-07:00

During our stay in England we also visited student city Cambridge. Very old and very beautiful.
My first collage is of students punting on the river Cam. Punts are littleflat boats and are mostly handled by students .When you walk around through the town there they will try to sell you a ride.They will show you the sights of Cambridge by boat. It should be a lot of fun. On these photo's you can see a group of Japanese studends who were singing and laughing. We didn’t have the time to go on one so we definitely need to go again. (I wish). On the left on one or two photo’s is St John’s college, I believe it to be the most famous of several colleges in Cambridge.

Cambridge has several colleges but St John’s has its own very famous chapel. I would more like to call it a huge church and it is beautiful. I made lots of photo’s in here but today I am just showing a few among other photo’s of Cambridge. Look at the glass stained windows which are all around. And the ceiling is a work of art, so very special. It looks like it is woven. I will show more photo’s of the chapel and Cambridge in the future. Especially the inside of the chapel is beautiful..

Please click to enlarge photo;s

This is just a little bit of Cambridge.
For Watery Wednesday go here:http://waterywednesday.blogspot.com/
For outdoor Wednesday go here: http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/

Mosaic Monday

2011-08-28T18:17:00.001-07:00

A few weeks ago I posted lots of flowers from the garden of this beautiful estate Hinton Ampler in England.
I said there was so much to see inside, everything so beautiful, like all this china of Sèvres, and Minton and Wedgwood and I don’t know what other beautiful brands.
So today I am showing just a little of what was in those cabinets for mosaic Monday, as always hosted by Mary of The little red house.http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/

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One of the many beautiful rooms.

This is just a little of what I saw and admired there. I will post some more of the interior in the future.
Riet

Pink Saturday.

2011-08-26T05:51:00.001-07:00

Some weeks ago I got an invitation from my friend Madelief for a bloggers get together and an afternoon tea.. It was going to be held in her beautiful garden. Of course I accepted and let me tell you, we had a wonderful afternoon last Saturday.

Madelief is the owner of this beautiful blog called Madelief.

Look what she surprised us with. A beautiful set table , lots of pink here , and the goodies were made and baked by herself. All so delicious. And of course pots and pots of tea.

Let me show you a few photo’s

Isn’t this a beautiful setting, the garden round that gorgeous table.

There even was a greenhouse.

The other bloggers were Ingrid, Jolanda, Anita, Lia, Fleur and Saskia. All lovely ladies which I never met before.
As I said we had a wonderful afternoon with a lot of talking and laughing and getting to know each other. It was so much fun to get to see the faces behind the blogs.

Thank you dear Madelief, you were a beautiful host . I will never forget this fantastic afternoon. It was so much appreciated.
Riet.

Pink Saturday is hosted by Beverly of "How sweet the sound"

Alphabe Thursday.

2011-08-24T11:05:00.001-07:00

Alphabe Thursday is hosted by Ms Jenny Matlock. This week we need to find words with the letter S.
For me it was the word Summer.
As we are nearing the end of summer I am thinking it was not such a super good one. We didn’t have much sun and had a lot of showers .
During our stay in England we visited the most beautiful gardens and they all said SUMMER. I think you agree when you see these photo’s.

PLease click to enlarge photo's.

All summerflowers

Please click on photo to enlarge.

All these photo’s are made by me in the Great Dixter gardens.
For more S words go to ms Jennies blog.

Outdoor and Watery Wednesday.

2011-08-23T07:43:00.001-07:00

Last week we went for an errand in an older part of our little town when we saw this beautiful little old dike-house. Very old as it was built in the year 1815 but it still looked so perfect.
I must have seen it before but then I was not into photographing I think. I had my camera with me so here are my photo’s for Outdoor Wednesday .http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/

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There are actually two families living here, so separate houses.

You have to go down the dike to get to the front door. See the steps?

As you can see there is an upstairs and a downstairs in these little houses by the steps on the side of the house. The garden is downstairs and maybe there was a stable once.

Watery Wednesday.

Last night I received this photo of my granddaughter Megan on her first waterski lesson. I think she did real well.
She said she had so much fun on summer water camp.

For more watery Wednesday photo’s go here: http://waterywednesday.blogspot.com/

Mosaic Monday and Blue Monday.

2011-08-21T10:25:00.001-07:00

Mosaic Monday is hosted by Mary of “The little red house”

Last night I heard from my friend Jackie in England that there was no mosaic Monday today. But then I had already posted this so on to next week .

Today I have some more photo’s of the beautiful animals we saw in the safari park.

The elephant is doing a trick. Look at his right legs.

BLUE MONDAY.
Blue Monday is hosted by Sally of “Smiling Sally”.
I hope you are feeling better every day Sally.
I hope this photo I post here makes you smile. The giraffe is washing that blue car.))

For more lots of blue go to Sallies blog, here is the link : http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

Pink Saturday.

2011-08-19T11:09:00.001-07:00

Another week and another pink Saturday hosted by Beverly of “How sweet the sound”
I made another mosaic as I still have so many pink pictures. These pink painted houses I saw on the first day we were in England .Of course I had my camera on hand while we were in the car. Thank goodness we had to stop for a traffic light so I could open the window and take the photo. Didn’t want to miss any pink )) Since I joined Beverly almost three years ago this has become a second nature. Looking for pink.

Happy pink Saturday.
For lots more pink go here: http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/

Skywatch Friday.

2011-08-18T10:25:00.000-07:00

Today I have a typical Dutch sight with a nice summer sky.

For more skywatch photo's from all over the world go here: http://skyley.blogspot.com/

Alphabe Thursday.

2011-08-17T10:35:00.001-07:00

Alphabe Thursday is hosted by Ms Jenny Matlock. This week we need to bring up words with the letter R.
I found words like Rabbit and Rain and Rich and Round and Row but I went for Roses.
Beautiful roses. Here they are, all different colors and of course there are Red Roses too.

Happy Alphabe Thursday.
Riet

Watery and outdoor Wednesday.

2011-08-16T10:50:00.001-07:00

Watery Wednesday.
One day while we were in England walking along a little river in a lovely old village making photo’s we saw this moorhen sitting there on its nest with one tiny little baby. And in a minute or two there were four of them. They must have come out of the eggs while we were watching there . They ran away from mum and jumped right in the water where I think it was dad was waiting.

I made a collage of some photo's I made during those exciting minutes.

Please click on photo to enlarge!

For more Watery photo’s go here:http://waterywednesday.blogspot.com/

Outdoor Wednesday.

These photo’s I made in a very old , very well known village in the Cotswolds Chipping Cambden. It is known for its houses and buildings which are all built in golden colored Cotswold stone.
As you can see it was very busy there that day and we couldn´t find a place to park the car. We just drove through the lovely village and that was that. On to other places.

For more beautiful outdoor photo´s go to Susan´s blog: http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com/

Mosaic Monday and blue Monday

2011-08-14T08:25:00.001-07:00

Another week, another Monday. Time flies. Mosaic Monday is hosted by Mary of The little red house.
And again from me a flower mosaic. My summer was full of garden tours and I am sure you noticed.

All these photo´s I took in one of Englands most beautiful gardens Great Dixter.

For more mosaics go to Mary’s blog: http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/

Blue Monday.
Blue Monday is hosted by Sally of Smiling Sally.
I hope you are feeling better every day Sally.

For blue Monday I have this mosaic of Lavender fields I saw in a lovely little village in the Cotswolds. Miles of lavender fields in all different colors.
When I saw this it really took my breath away. Never seen anything like it. So beautiful.

For more lots of blue go to Sally´s blog :http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

Pink Saturday.

2011-08-12T11:06:00.001-07:00

Like every week Pink Saturday is hosted by Beverly of “How sweet the sound”

Today I have two photo’s of a beautiful mansion in England that we visited called Hinton Ampner.
These photo’s are of the backdoor to the terrace and garden and I want you to look at the stairs to the terrace. See those lovely little pink and white flowers that grow on the vertical stones. So gorgeous.

I will tell and show more of this beautiful estate in later posts because all the furniture , the china and glassware is so fantastic that I need to show you all that some time in the future.

Today is also a special pink Saturday . It is Miracle makeover weekend Your comment will raise money for a good cause.
Please take the time to go to Beverly’s blog and read what is going on . Here is the link : http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/

Happy pink Saturday everybody.

My world Tuesday

2011-08-08T11:24:00.000-07:00

Last week we went to a safaripark with the grandchildren. We made lots of photo's so now and then I will show a few.

For more My world photo's go here. http://showyourworld.blogspot.com/

Mosaic and blue Monday.

2011-08-07T11:40:00.001-07:00

It is Monday so here we are again with another mosaic. I love to use flowers in my mosaics especially in the summer when there are so many in beautiful colors. Now for today the main color is white.
Mosaic Monday is hosted by Mary of The little red house. :http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/

For Blue Monday hosted by Smiling Sally I have another Mosaic. And of course this one is mainly blue.

I hope you are feeling a lot better now Sally . Thank you for keeping Blue Monday up for all of us.
go for more lots of blue here: http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

PS. We just had the draw for my give-away.
The winner is Sherry of http://countrywingsinphoenix.blogspot.com/

The winner of the Dutch draw is Rini of http://catharinas-love.blogspot.com/

Congratulations to you both.
Riet

PInk Saturday

2011-08-05T13:30:00.000-07:00

PInk Saturday is hosted by Beverly from "How sweet the sound"
http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/

I made this collage of "pinkish flowers" for pink Saturday. I love this color in flowers.

Skywatch Friday.

2011-08-04T11:41:00.000-07:00

There is not much to show in special skies these days. Or they are grey or clear blue.
Yesterday we went to visit a safaripark with our grandchildren. The giraffes were favorites because one of them came to visit us and greeted us through our glass top of the car. The kids had so much fun.There were a lot of them and there were quite some young ones too. Beautiful,and oh my ,so tall.

For more skywatch photo's from all over the world go here: http://skyley.blogspot.com/

Alphabe Thursday.

2011-08-03T13:24:00.001-07:00

This week we need to come up with the letter P for Ms Matlocks class. I found a lot of words, like popular or peace or problem or pond or port but I chose purple and pink for my collage this week.

For more alphabe words go to ms Jenny Matlocks blog : http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/