More interesting to me than tight blue.

 Hope no one forgot their umbrella here on the Rokin. One for Skywatch Friday here.

Nightview over the Westerdok

 

Like the roadside yesterday.

The plants along the canal in our village are also doing very well this year. Not too cold, lots of moisture and maybe also lots of CO² they are doing very well.

In the bus home

 

Since the roadsides are no longer maintained, they look much nicer. Wonder if there will be mowing at the end of the year after all.

The specter of bitter poverty does not subdue the brave heart.

 is under one of the many murals located in the boardroom of the Amsterdam Diamond Workers Union. Completion of the building in 1900 and designed by the famous architect Berlage. One for Sami's Monday mural here.

Passant Harbor

 

There are always water tourists who want to stay overnight this summer in Almere. Well you can do that in our transient marina.  (Header the Prince Hendrik Quay in Amsterdam seen from the top floor of the public library.)

In passing

 Are the most photographic moments up for grabs. One for James Weekend Street/Reflections here.

In the Polder

 One for Skywatch Friday here.

Unusual for Amsterdam

 But more common on the other side of the ocean I guess.

Museum streetcar

 Museum streetcar riding along the Amsterdam forest.

Waiting room

 Just thought I'd throw another one in.

The cathedrals of our time

 Metro station North-South under Central Station.

Municipal lawnmowers at work..

 One for Saturday Critters here.(Header, for the entrance to the "Pijp" metro station).

Corner Bloemgracht-Prinsengracht

 Photo from September 2009. You won't find the carts with glass washing ladders anymore because they are now banned. One for Weekend/Street Reflections here.

Winter sunset

 From the balcony of my former office 2009.  One for Skywatch Friday here.

Made the walk

 Streetshot in Amsterdam and it was no little camera this time but a big nikon.

Gift

 

Had to think of a gift for a birthday boy whose hobby is cooking so I went to the best professional cooking store we have in Amsterdam, Duikelman. Great store but that also makes the choice very difficult. In the end I took a gift certificate.

Around this time 2 years ago.

Then we had the Floriade with a cable car that brought you from on side to the other. Everything is gone now again with a loss of  €200.000.000 for the municipality and guess what.  Construction plans for the new housing development have foundered on a terrible row between the municipality and the project developers. Cause obviously money again.

 

Had a craving for stuffed peppers yesterday

 Well that will be tomato soup today then. Was very tasty yesterday by the way.

Some impressions of the Rietveld graduation show

Nikkie Vroom the creator of the first statue and this one herself sleeping as proud graduate.

The photo department.

Linking bodies jewel

While visiting the graduation show at the Rietveld academy the day before yesterday, my brother, his girlfriend and I were invited by the creator of this people connecting jewel by the creator Martina Bucci from Italy to give it a try. A so called linking body jewel made of glass beads and tied together.
 

With this as result. Tomorrow more. (Header composition of the entrance of the academy)

Taken off the bench

 Yesterday evening 9:19 PM. Strange sunset. One for Skywatch Friday here.

Night shot

 Haarlemmerdijk by night.

It was a world without mobiles

 On an exhibition in the Amsterdam town archive. Children in the "Jordaan" around 1955. If I remember correct a photo by Dolf Toussaint.

Waiting rooms

Sitting here a little too much these days but yes old age.

 

Canal view

 Think I have posted this photo of the " Looiersgracht" before but am not sure. Old age is starting to set in.(Header "Gooimeer" on a nice day.)

Tasty snack

 The semi-tame otters enjoy a tasty mackerel at Lelystad. One for Saturday Critters here.

Color Composition

 It remains beautiful such a dark sky as a background. One for Skywatch Friday here.

Wake up call at 7AM

Awakened by the screeching circular saw sound of the neighbors diagonally across from us. DIY time is upon us again.

 

Tis the weather for it.

 T-shirt

This evening Holland-Austria

True fanatics took a moment to get their homes in the mood for tonight's soccer game. Wonder how soon it will be gone again.

Bird's eye view

 In the great hall of the Amsterdam ethnographic museum, a large group of paper birds flew.

Praying kestrel

 This bird was kind enough to hover in the air right in front of us over the shoulder of the dike embankment. Another one for Saturday Critters here. ( Header an oldie from 2005. View of the Central Station Amsterdam from the 8th floor of the former CS Post office now demolished and made way for the booking com office.)

On the road in the polder.

 Yesterday afternoon on the way home. It really has to stop raining or we will drift away.

Recipe for a beautiful sky

A lot of water both upstairs and downstairs. One for Skywatch Friday here.

 

The Deventer Waag

 This late Gothic building from 1528 was the first weigh house in the Netherlands and was in use as a weigh house for the trade goods brought into this Hanseatic city via the Rhine.  Now it is the local history museum.

Exhibition by elaborating on the mess in the toilets.

 Bieb is entering the stairwell of w 139 where an exhibition called outside of the soup is taking place. Initiative with Afra Eisma and Hend Samir.

A roof of doves

 

In a fit of insanity I deleted all my photos from the weekend and only have the previews from Lrc left. Well before you have a usable picture of that it takes a few lessons but now I know.