Mrs. Hedgehog walks memory lane
Remember this popular game from the sixties? Back then online-distraction simply didn't exist. "Mum", I am bored I remember saying repeatly during the week days. With a sigh she fetched a game and it often turned out to be Memory. How I loved this game because of the...
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Tree Meets Sky
Owning an Amsterdam city garden for more than a decade, every summer my family works and leisures on our 300-square-meters-patch. There is always a load of things to do. Battling the weeds, topping the trees, trimming the roses, dredging the ditch, painting the house,...
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Wings of Paradise
Everybody has its own paradise. Ours is the neighbourhood garden complex called Ons Buiten (Our Country Side) and the artificial lake De Nieuwe Meer. Lots of birds and city wildlife are to be encountered there. Like flocks of wagtails. These little yellow...
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Birds and their meanings
Browsing for the meaning of birds through the ages on the net, look what I came across: “As creatures of light and levity, whose wings take them beyond the borders of terra firma that demarcate the domain of man, brids can be seen as residing in a state of proximity...
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Birds of all times
Me and my knitting of birds, I am only one little insignificant soul in the chain of bird-fascinated persons. Numerous artisans depicted our flying fellow creatures through the ages. As witnesses this old mosaic of a heron, some Roman male - let’s name him Aquila -...
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