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orange

This friday, on the 30st of April ,our queen Beatrix will celebrate her birthday. This day is not her own birthday but was the birthday of her mother, the late queen Juliana, who was born in 1909 and died in 2004.

Already the people in Amsterdam are getting orange fever. flowers at the market, party gear, everything in our national colour orange. Getting ready for the biggest party of the year.

I don't hate mondays

gorgeous antique corner-cupboard with artificial flower arrangement on top. At my mother in law's.

After a short visit to the gardenmarket at the Amstelveld it was time for a cappucino under the trees in the sunshine

die hards II

So cute, this little mouse and how beautifully painted by Henk Helmantel, a Dutch painter.

However, as we speak, I hear a few of these creatures tiptoe through my kitchen. It's really hard to get rid of them in these old Amsterdam canalhouses. Sigh.

die hards

The ranonculus I bought two weeks ago are almost gone. Almost. A few of them survived untill now.

for life > Bertolf

Bertolf has a new album and I like it .

It is called "For Life". Watch the clip, and listen to the other songs. "Don't want to lose you yet" is one of the beautiful songs that I want to hear over and over again.

Bertolf - Don't Wanna Lose You Yet (Live, November 2009)
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France

My sister in law recently moved to the south of France,

region Aude.

Looking at the pictures I want to hurry over there.

TRÅL

I'm happy with my Ikea Tral-lamp. A modest, classy design. I spotted it at remodelista on sunday and decided to take the train today, monday, to Ikea Haarlem.

asparagus plumosus

I love my fern, that is not really a fern I believe.

Anyway it's growing like crazy as I'm writing this.

Filtering the late sunlight through it's feathery leaves.

smashing!

dame aux camelias

At the Lindengracht in the heart of the Jordaan (that comes from the french word jardin)

this amazing camelia is full in bloom.

aroma therapy

flowers that smell nice.
lathyrus odoratus, white lilacs, fresia.

R.A.N.U.N.C.U.L.U.S

have a peek

Endlessly looking inside gorgeous properties at 1st option

Hortus Botanicus

A windy, yet sunny mondaymorning.

Perfect for a coffee in the Amsterdam Botanical garden.

Yulia Brodskaya

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'saturday afternoon

Spent this sunny saturday afternoon taking a tramride to KNSM Island. Passing Amsterdam ZOO, ARTIS, you can see this building. Built in a beautiful un-Dutch style.

At Pol's Potten I spotted this Chinese glass jar for preserving food and this wanahave cookbook, La Cucina d'Abruzzo. Italian food, Dutch writer.

Lots of spring on the way to the market, at the market, on the way home and finally into the home. Apple-blossom and rhododendron at the exquisit little flowershop Pompon, a plant with tiny white flowers to welcome you, at the frontdoor and ofcourse one of my alltime favourites, Lathyrus Odoratus

ZARA HOME

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dogs in slowmotion

How can you not love dogs

Dille & Kamille

Op zoek naar basale stoeltjes? Ik zag deze en nog een aantal andere, waaronder ongelakte klassieke Thonetstoeltjes, bij Dille & Kamille. Een fijne winkel die ik nooit voorbijloop wanneer ik een vestiging tegenkom. Ook mooie pannen van gietaluminium, in eigen beheer gefabriceerd in Italië.

Helaas is er nog steeds geen vestiging in Amsterdam.

De Lage Oorsprong

De zaterdag voor Pasen werd tuin De Lage Oorsprong in Oosterbeek weer opengesteld voor publiek. We gingen erheen tussen twee koude buien door. De eerste bezoekers van het seizoen en de enigen op dat moment. De geplande oranjerie, parkeerplaats en openlucht-theater zijn om bureaucratische redenen vertraagd. Wel zijn er twee keurige (rolstoelvriendelijke) toiletten gerealiseerd. Door de lange koude winter en een voorjaar dat maar niet op gang wil komen is het leven in de tuin twee a drie weken later dan anders. Even geduld dus. Over een maand zal de beleving weer heel anders zijn. Behalve de reguliere bezoekers

vinden steeds meer mensen de weg naar de tuin om daar hun speciale gelegenheden te vieren. met een lunch, high tea of diner. Ik ga maar eens dromen over een feestelijke lunch onder een rijk begroeide berceau ergens in de zomer.