Netherlands – Figments of a DuTchess

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Clouds over Nether Lands

Posted on June 4, 2021 by Marion Driessen

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Animals

Dutch winter horses

Posted on February 18, 2021February 18, 2021 by Marion Driessen

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Animals

Polar bear Spa

Posted on August 4, 2020August 4, 2020 by Marion Driessen

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Outside in

Along water and reed

Posted on March 18, 2020March 18, 2020 by Marion Driessen

Now that we can no longer carefree roam whenever and wherever we want to due to the coronavirus, now that we work from home and keep our social distance when possible, I want to share photos that bring the outdoors inside. I will describe what made me take those pictures and the way they made me feel. They will be collected under the category OUTSIDE IN. Feel free to join in!

This photo was taken back in 2016, on a bright March day, just like today. The steel-blue water rippled peacefully under a clear blue sky and the farm was safely hidden among the trees, their branches already budding. See how the reed lazily waves in the spring breeze? Can you feel the sunlight on your cheeks? And what would it be like to dip your hand in the cold water…

Come, walk with me through this Dutch landscape.

Figments outside in

CBW, Photo challenge

CBW: Signs in the Dutch mountains

Posted on January 31, 2020July 4, 2020 by Marion Driessen

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This week the photo challenge calls out for all sorts of signs. I love the atmosphere in this photo, which I took at the Buitengoed Slavante in Maastricht. This city is located in the south-east of the Netherlands, twenty miles from where I was born. And guess what. Holland is mostly flat, but this part of our country has mountains! Well, they are hills really, but we are so proud of them that we like to tease the rest of the Dutchies with ‘our mountains’.

Check out the other entries at Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge! 😀