Outdoor and Watery Wednesday.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Alphabe Thursday.

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.

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..

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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

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.

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.

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.


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All summerflowers

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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.

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.

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/