by Antoinette Andriese | Oct 3, 2018 | Birds of Amsterdam, Garden of Amsterdam
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,...
by Antoinette Andriese | Aug 26, 2018 | Birds of Amsterdam, Garden of Amsterdam
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 birds...
by Antoinette Andriese | Feb 18, 2018 | Birds of Amsterdam
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...
by Antoinette Andriese | Feb 18, 2018 | Birds of Amsterdam
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...
by Antoinette Andriese | Feb 18, 2018 | Birds of Amsterdam
It’s no surprise the Amsterdam herons flew right into my knitting patterns. You can see them everywhere around here. On the Albert Cuyp Market after the fish market stalls have left or when I dogwalk my four-paws Sindy around the jagged edges of the city. Usually we...
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