A few months ago a friend of mine told me about a spot in Belgium that she thought I’d like, called Hallerbos. It’s a forest just outside Belgium that, for a few weeks every spring, is completely covered in bluebells. She showed me her photos and I immediately wanted to go.
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Yesterday when we saw the sunshine yet again, Xander and I grabbed the dogs and headed off to Carnisse Grienden for a walk.
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Early this morning my husband and I grabbed the dogs, hopped in the car and headed to Zuiderpark. The sun had just come up and we were both itching to get out and enjoy it.
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At the end of our trip to France last summer, we decided to spend a few days exploring somewhere on our way home. We knew we wanted to go see someplace nice, and we weren’t sure if we’d find anywhere that quite compared to our trip to the Gorge du Tarn two years before. I loved that area, especially Castelbouc! …
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Wasn’t it just yesterday that I took photos of a beautiful sunset seen from our back balcony? How did we go from that, with all it’s springy hopefulness, to this? Yeah, that’s snow. In Rotterdam… It’s almost March, for pity sake! Not that it stops the neighbourhood children from playing outside. Oh, to be a kid again when nothing gets …
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Living in a flat in Rotterdam brings with it a lot of interesting interactions with neighbours. We have been living in this flat for over ten years and while we do have some really awesome neighbours, we have also had some total jerkoffs, inconsiderate twats (who we totally busted) and royal pains in the ass. There’s one neighbour that I’ve …
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Today the sky looked so beautiful as the sun was going down. After a few months of mainly wet and grey weather it really warms the cockles of my heart to see the sun. It was shining bright all day today, even though it was bitterly cold outside. Well, cold by Dutch standards, it was just below zero, which would …
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I still haven’t finished working on my photos from Canada. I took so many, and I hadn’t even finished working on the ones from France yet either. I am way behind but I will catch up soon enough. Here are some I have done already. I miss the beauty of home… These photos were taken one afternoon while my parents …
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One morning during our holiday I got out my camera and went for a walk around the property to take some photos. While up in the orchard I noticed some wasps buzzing around one of the trees. Man, do those wasps love them some cherries!
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It’s true… look!! BEANS! Actual … beans!! I don’t believe it! I grew a real and honest to goodness vegetable! I am the queen of gardening! Seriously, if you could have seen the little dance I did around the balcony when I saw these babies. It went a little something like… I have beans, baby beans, Go Tammy…shake yer booty, …
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Well, it’s time for another installment of The Veggie Files. It’s been almost a month now and things are going great! The plants are growing very quickly and with the exception of my lettuce, the plants are getting big and strong. You can see in this photo that my bean plants (left) have grown big and bushy and my cucumber …
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