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/

Pink Saturday.

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.

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.

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.

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.





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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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

 

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/

Outdoor Wednesday.

 Just a few more cottages today. These were all taken in Stratford Upon Avon, Englands Shakespeare town. A  beautiful and one of Englands oldests towns.

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

Mosaic Monday.

Mosaic Monday is hosted by Mary of “The little red house”. Thank you Mary for making this happen for us every week.
Today I thought I’d make a red mosaic. All summer flowers, so bright in the summertime.


For more mosaic photo’s go here: http://dearlittleredhouse.blogspot.com/





About my give-away.
This is to say thank you for following me and for all your sweet comments all this time.
What to do to enter this give-away. you are a follower or will be one.
Leave me a comment here or on some of my next posts and tell me you want to join. It will give an extra point for the draw when you put a link about my give-away on your sidebar.

Voor mijn Nederlandse volgers heb ik een ander pakket, ook andere trekking.  Geef een reactie op mijn blog en vertel me dat je mee wil doen.  Je krijgt nog een extra punt (nummer) voor de trekking als je op de zijkant van je blog vertelt over mijn give-away. Dus, hoort zegt het voort! De trekking sluit op 7 Augustus. Op mijn andere, Nederlandse, blog, foto in sidebar, staat een grotere foto van de prijs.
Riet