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saturdaymorningmarketflowers week 43

Helen Levitt

FOAM, the museum for photography in Amsterdam, where I work, just opened an exposition of the work of Helen Levitt. She started her career in 1939. Soon she became inspired by Henry Cartier Bresson and started to photograph people in the streets of NY. She's still alive, now 95 years old and lives a quiet live in the USA.

A week in the Provence

Back from a wonderful week in the French Provence.

Wereldagenda van Amsterdam

For everyone who lives in Amsterdam or just loves the city, we made the Amsterdam World Agenda 2009. It is the second edition of this Agenda, filled with useful information about the city and its very different population. Dates and descriptions of Special days of remembrance and festivity of many cultures you will find on the writing pages throughout the year. The best adresses for excotic restaurants, the Amsterdam markets, theatres, you name it, it is all in the agenda as well as some interviews with citizens with foreign backgrounds. A lovely birthday- or Christmaspresent for Amsterdamlovers.

Order via the website

http://www.wereldreisinamsterdam.nl/.

everybody

Perfect song for a melancholic moment.

saturdaymorningmarketflowers plus

Update of the bouquet I made on saturday. Somehow the dill I used, didn't cooperate. Instead I put the yellow heliantus, my mother brought from her own garden, between the lilly's. These sunny yellow flowers are from plants that my grandfather planted fifty years ago in my parents garden. As you can see they are still going strong.

saturdaymorningmarketflowers week 39

Again a wonderful autumnday. Lots and lots of people at the market and on the café terrasses enjoying the beautiful weather.

bright autumnday

Around my corner you find "De negen straatjes" or "The nine little streets". Restaurants, fashion, shoes, cakes and more. Today was a perfect day for a stroll. We visited the little streets and sat for an hour in the sun on a bench along the canal Prinsengracht.

no cars today

Cars were not allowed today. On this glorious, sunny sunday inhabitants and tourists celebrated Amsterdam on bikes, walking, on the crowded water in boats or in carriages drawn by horses. It was a happy day !

novastar

mum

My mother is blessed with eternal youth. Today is her 75th birthday. Yesterday she was the queen at her own birthdayparty for family and friends on a sunny sunday afternoon at a beautiful green location. I'm proud of her.

only men aloud

This is the choir that won the BBC choir competition "Last choir standing". They got my vote wholeheartedly

workspace

saturdaymorningmarketflowers week 33

This is what my garden would look like today, if I had one .

wrapping up

model

Little girls are growing up. The girl on the poster is Lucy, a schoolfriend of my daughter Emma. Her picture is everywhere all over town.

last choir standing

On BBC I watch "The Last Choir Standing". A competition between British choirs. Libera boys choir was a guest in one of the programs.

saturdaymorningmarketflowers week 32

birthday

August 1st. A day of reflection. Is there still something of this child in me? The picture was taken before the time I can remember. Many years later I recognize this face in the faces of our family's children. I find that comforting .