Kromslootpark Almere

One for Weekend Reflections here.

Seen in Almere

Behind this sign (called dyeing plants field) there are plants that provide colours for dyeing fabrics.

Luckily there are also signs that indicate the colour of each plant. (not here)

In front of it there is a row of poles with the colours that the plants behind them produce but the wool sheaths at the top have lost their colour since the 2 years they've been in wind and weather. One for Our World Tuesday here.

Hipshot Vondelpark 2014

It's time for this kind of pictures again, but it's not there yet.

Street writer

Coming back from the rolling kitchen festival in the Westerpark I encounter this bicycle with text.

The guy left is Martin V. Halm the writer/poet and is originally an sf/thriller writer but by nice weather he and his friend write poems for whoever want one. Also not a friend of a laptop as you can see.

With this as result. An homage for Jules Verne as one of the first real visionare sf writer.

In the Beatrix park

Designed in 1957 by architect Lau Peters for the Catholic Church as cloister and chapel for the education to priest and left by them in 1998. After years of debate the buildings will be staying as young monument and the chapel contains now on the ground floor a restaurant and above an exposition room for art. The cloister is now a breeding place for offices that have something to do with art in the city. For more reflections you can go to Weekend Reflections here.

Their own nature park.

I found this eastern island park made by the inhabitants of nearby houses in a newly made area of our home town Almere Haven to stimulate birds and plant grow. I must admit that this place was earlier on uncultivated green.

In this crop of the first photo you can see some other nice parts of this place.

Whether you sit well on this couch with diagonally behind you a supposedly insect hotel I venture, but it is a nice green in total.

Architecture trip to Copenhagen(13)

Jeppe Hein, 3-Dimensional Mirror Labyrint, 2005 Polished stainless steel, alu-cobond in the park of museum Ordrupgaard. One for weekend reflections here.

Still nice weather

As here in front of the former movie museum in the Vondelpark and now a restaurant called VondelCS and a studio for television.

Today in Amsterdam

Today was to nice to stay behind the computer.

As did a lot of other people in the Vondelpark.

Unless your house is already a little "outside"

Lazy saturday

On our way to the rolling kitchen festival in amsterdam (see biebkriebels ) we had first to cross a park and due to the nice weather a lot of people decided to make for a lazy day.

Free time

These photo's made in the Vondelpark I first rejected for my blog but by the high temperatures last days i think now different.

Ha lying in full sun not my cup of tea.

Better on a bench in the shadow and waiting till something happens. (Not much in this case) 

In the shadow

In summertime you're glad that you can find shelter in the shade of a big tree as here is the case in the Vondelpark Amsterdam. One for shadowshot sunday here.

The fence around the park

A great deal of the fence around the Vondelpark ( yesterdays post ) consist of this forged iron work. Made in 1883 by Alexander Linneman for the colonial exhibition that took place that year in the park. All the main entrances got this kind of fences. 

Here the entrance seen in the direction of the Stadhouderskade. I dedicate this post to Friday Fences where you can find more.

Walk in the park

Tuesday it was such nice weather that Bieb and I decided for a walk through the Vondelpark. The central park of Amsterdam. We had already made a big walk in the streets of Amsterdam so a refreshment was very welcome.

The Blue Thea House somewhere in the middle of the park is very famous and always crowed with people. We were warned for the waiting times before being helped but in the holiday season you have to order and take your refreshments from the Bar. No fuzz at all. The building itself dates from 1937, build in the so named dutch engineer style by arch. H. Baanders and the terraces can contain 700 visitor's.

Yes it was a very pleasant visit. At home I discovered a big blister on my right foot. Perhaps the walk was a bit to long in not appropriated shoes for this hot weather.