Spring Images

Here are some images from the past several weeks as spring finds its way north here. We are getting some warmer temps now, this week is in the teens (50s F) and so more is growing and greening all the time. Nights are still brisk though, hovering right at freezing or just above and so we awake to fogs or heavy condensation on everything due to the large temperature spread.

Our weeks are moving past, now that it's light later (we only just moved our clocks this past weekend) and we are heading out more in the evenings. Last night was a nice catch-up session with some friends in Rotterdam and tonight will be dinner at Marilyn and Geoff's new digs in Leiden. We might have to go up a little early so I can get my stock of Twinings Chai tea re-filled at the ex-pat store up there - yum!

We're also looking forward to a weekend away, we will be joined by our friends Sean and Frans Herman for a trip to Ghent, in Belgium. From all appearances, it's a nice little town that is packed with interesting things. With luck, I'll get some worthwhile photos and share them next week.

The "Binnenhof" and "Ridderzaal" of the Dutch parliament in The Hague. We frequently cycle through this arch and subsequent courtyard to get to our movie theatre on the other side.

The Hague does a nice crocus planting across the street from Centraal Station. This view is looking across the grass to Centraal, which is underneath and behind the buildings behind the large tree.

Same crocus as before, new view. This was taken 2+ weeks ago. Now the crocus are all finished and the daffodils are going mad.

The harbour in Wassenaar and its attendant crocus patch.

This is a local dairy farm where I sometimes go to buy fresh milk and cheese. It's along my running route and I realized that it has a couple good examples of 'canals-as-fences' with isolated gates sticking up.

Same spot on the road as previous photo, just looking the other way at the field access. Saves on fencing!