Amazing skies

sky with bare trees

Yesterday morn K. and I left early for Leuven. We got up in the dark, packed our stuff in the car and just before we drove away I looked up in the sky and saw the morning glory at the breaking of the day.

sky with bare tree

layered sky with moon

morning sky with clouds and chemtrails

morning sky with clouds and chemtrails

morning sky with bare trees and a bird

morning sky with sheep clouds

A walk in the wetlands

two bare trees against a blue sky

K. and I went for a walk today, it was slightly sunny with foggy clouds and a moderate wind. It's still way too warm for the time of the year, we even saw blossoms and narcissus budding.

reed

reed, church steeple and water

airplane in the sky

flying geese

It's so warm the geese don't know what to do: fly down South where it is supposed to be warmer or stay over here where it is not yet cold enough.

geese in V-formation

We saw them gathering above and in the water, forming V-formations, but if they actually left... we don't know.

reed in the wind

grass in water

reed in backlight

ray of light on reed 

two cyclists on the dike

cigars of reed

My Christmas in pictures

So Christmas is over, it flew by like a cannon ball. K. and I went on a family brunch at my brother' s house and the day after Christmas he went to the cinema with his daughter. The family brunch was fun and noisy as always. The women of the family brought the food, so my sister-in-law didn't have to cater it all by herself. I made a lovely big trifle that was finished to the last crumb, everybody loved it.
Here is an impression in photos.

braided hair of one of my nieces

nephew and nieces playing games

Christmas brunch table

blue decorated wall

jars filled with Christmas decorations

my fruit trifle

empty trifle bowl

my niece Emily on the iPad

my niece Katie decorating the trifle

three spiral braids

Merry Christmas!

Dear readers, I wish you a merry Christmas and a healthy, loving and bountiful 2016.

Calendar 2016

I made a calendar 2016 for our communal guest room, that is I selected the photographs and sent it to a print shop which will make it into a wall calendar. I chose one photo per month, taken in that same month this year in my neighbourhood or elsewhere in Amsterdam, except for July (I was away in India) and December (not cold enough).
Below are the photographs per month:

January

February

March

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

I will have it printed by Vistaprint, if you would like to order a copy (EUR 25 excluding shipping) please send me an email. Read here about my experience with Vistaprint last year.