Oh yes, the first snow of this winter’s season… and for me the first snow since I have moved to Heemskerk. I just love snow. It is as a blanket that covers the world with innocence. A lovely sight…. It gives the world a complete new look. I do realize that snow can cause big…
Month: November 2010
My mother’s recipe book
Some where around March of this year my mother was taken permanently into a caring home. Because of that we (her children) had to clean out our mother’s house. A though job to do it was… physically, but even more mentally. One of the things that I took along with me from my mother’s house…
My newest play thingy…..
Although it isn’t a real play thingy… It will be rather useful to me! Anyway, I always wanted to have a drawing tablet for my computer. Specially after someone showed me how handy such a tablet can be with processing pictures. Oh sure, everything is also possible with a mouse. But with such a tablet…
When the lady smiles…
When I came home this evening and I opened the door of my apartment I thought I recognized a soft sweet scent. I felt how I shook my head as I realized the wish and desire were fooling me. I took off my coat and opened the door to the living room. Pleasantly surprised I…
Night of the Proms 2010
Yesterday evening I have been to The Night of Proms. It is almost an tradition for my Patrick and me to go there. It the fourth time in a row. But this year we went only to the event in Rotterdam. Some of the other years we also have been to the German edition of…
Zandvoort aan Zee
Yesterday I spend some time in the town of “Zandvoort aan Zee”. This town is a well known spa in The Netherlands. One of the reasons I went there was that I never had been there before. But maybe an even more important reason was that I wanted to try out my new lens (the…
My Photo-site…
People who read around here more often may remember that I used to have a photo site. I have taken this site down some time ago because I wanted to update the site to Gallery 3 (Gallery is the software on the site that I use for displaying my pictures). Another reason was that the…
Turning bad luck into a step forward…
Let me first apologize for the lousy picture, but it was made with the most awful compact camera and I am too tired/lazy to do some Gimp-magic on it. But… As I told already, I dropped my DSLR camera last week by accident. This with the result that the 18-55mm lens that I have was…
A view from the past…
I don’t know why, but today I looked up on Streetview of Google Maps the house in Haaksbergen where I lived for so many years. When you look up something on Streetview of Google Maps you expect to see the current situation, but that is of course impossible. But still it is very weird to…