Summer joy

The weather was so nice on Sunday that really in the middle of nowhere people showed up to dive into the water.

View from the new walking and biking bridge over the "Hoge Vaart" that had just opened last week.

The bridge even has an elevator for cyclists and walkers but for whom and what because the first floor doesn't connect to anything except a bus stop and there's no parking or connecting bike lane below either. Definitely needs to be filled in in the future.

It remains a colorful world

Whether we fully understand him is point 2. (Seen in the Outsider museum of the Hermitage Amsterdam.) One for Sami's Colourful World here.

 

At the Flea market

 

Yesterday was the official opening of the new Waterlooplein Flea Market with fashion shows of 2nd hand clothing and musical performances. Attracted a lot of audience and it was very nice to look around again. I am now up to date again on the latest trends in tattoos.

Wouldn't take one myself but the youth clearly have less of a problem with it. You can also look on Biebkriebels blog here.

Amsterdam always surprising

 One for Weekend Street/Reflections here.

There is no shortage of dramatic skies around here

 Almere downtown architecture. One for Skywatch Friday here.

A breath of fresh air on the dike

 If it gets too much for you.

Sometimes feeling like the world is pushing too much on you and you don't quite get it anymore.

 Here beautifully depicted in the outsiders' wing of the hermitage Amsterdam. One for Signs2 here.

Zebra boots

 Spotted on the flea market in amsterdam

Bee

 Whether this purple variant exists I don't know but at the Floriade apparently anything goes. One for Sami's Colourful World here.

Strange relations

 I knew that cormorants sailed with a boat but herons that is the first time for me. Seen the day before yesterday in the "Nieuwe Keizersgracht". (PS Header is a slipway in the harbor of Urk)

Cable car terminus

 In a remote corner of the Floriade Almere sits the end station of the cable car across the grounds . The glass facade reflects the opposite exit of the A6 on the other side of the fence. One for Weekend Street/Reflections here.

How far can you go

 with pruning tree's. One for Skywatch Friday here.

Just a stroll through town

 Good for clearing the head and filling the SD card.

Seen on Kings day

 

The chair may not fit in the hole for plastic waste( orange) but it will fit. One for Signs2 here.

If they do get in your way.

 Then just a picture.

The Almere Wool Union on the Floriade

Consisting of thousands of woolen patches, colored with natural dyes, this all-seeing eye looks out into the world. 

 On the inside, we are surprised by a wall of weck bottles all filled with natural dyes (made by members of the Wool Union) through which the light falls beautifully. 

The Almeerse Wolunie processes wool from Almeerse sheep (about 250 sheep with about 5 kilos of wool each) into specially designed products (e.g. scarf, hat or bag). 

Participants of the Wolunie help with the processing of the raw wool: washing, carding, dyeing, felting, spinning and then knitting or crocheting. Of course they get to keep the product at the end of the process! A unique concept in which the wool of Almere is processed into a beautiful product with the help of Almere people.One for Sami's Colourful World here.

Sunday Bike

 If you urgently need a bike you could also try one of these.

Spring

 Love is in the air. One for Weekend Street/Reflections here.

On to the order of business.

 I had forgotten about this one yesterday but everyone was in high spirits after 2 years of abstaining from King's Day.

The over neighbors decided to get a dormer.

Within an hour and a half, it was done. One for Skywatch Friday here.

Yesterday Kings Day

 We are ready. Bring it on.

For children, it's still the most fun.

And maybe you'll make the find of a lifetime.