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Tiny dew drops which could hardly be seen with naked eye on a cobweb, and the size of the tip of the leaf is 1/2 an inch.
The land between rivers Lek and Merwede is a fantastic area to discover by foot, bike, boat, skate or boat. The Alblasserwaard polders are filled with windmills in a characteristic Dutch landscape which reminds us to the fact that this land is below sea-level
In the Alblasserwaard polders there are many trails by foot, skate or bike. Many interesting places can be visited like pittoresque Nieuwpoort, local history museum 'de Koperen Knop', the many cheesefarms and offcourse the world famous Kinderdijk windmills.
The Common Skimmer (Libellulidae) Skimmer dragonfly occurs over much of Eurasia, except the far north.
Above is the male showing the blue abdomen with black final segments that gives it its name.
In the middle of the village Scherpenzeel, behind the Dorpsstraat, Huis Scherpenzeel. In the fourteenth century fortified house was on this spot. Scherpenzeel lay on a strategically important location on the border between the provinces of Gelderland and Utrecht. The house you see now is built in the 18th century. At this time the House is used for public gatherings, including weddings. The park is open for visitors
Scherpenzeel, gelegen op de grens van Gelre en het Sticht (Utrecht),
strategisch gezien een belangrijk punt.
Tussen de Hertog van Gelre en de Bisschop van Utrecht waren in
die tijd regelmatig strubbelingen.
Scherpenzeel was door de eeuwen heen dan weer Utrechts,
dan weer Gelders bezit.
Sinds 1380 was het een Gelders leen.
Men denkt dat het ook dienst heeft gedaan als jachtslot.
Huis Scherpenzeel is eeuwenlang eigendom van
de familie Van Scherpenzeel geweest.
In 1652 werd het kasteel aanzienlijk uitgebreid in opdracht van Aleyd,
vrouwe van Scherpenzeel en haar echtgenoot.
In 1662 vererfde Scherpenzeel op het geslacht Van Westerholt,
In 1783 op het geslacht Van Heeckeren.
In 1793 werd het tenslotte verkocht aan J.S. van Naamen, waarna het vererfde op de familie Royaards.
In de 18e eeuw werd het kasteel verbouwd tot
een landhuis in classicistische stijl.
In the middle of the village Scherpenzeel, behind the Dorpsstraat, Huis Scherpenzeel. In the fourteenth century fortified house was on this spot. Scherpenzeel lay on a strategically important location on the border between the provinces of Gelderland and Utrecht. The house you see now is built in the 18th century. At this time the House is used for public gatherings, including weddings. The park is open for visitors
The Western Scheldt (Dutch: Westerschelde) in the province of Zeeland in the southwestern Netherlands, is the estuary of the Scheldt river. This river once had several estuaries, but the others are disconnected from the Scheldt, leaving the Westerschelde as its only direct way to the sea. It is an important shipping route to the Port of Antwerp, Belgium. Therefore, unlike the other sea arms, it is not closed by a dam as part of the Delta Works. Instead, the dykes around it have been heightened and reinforced.
Many ships have sunk in the Western Scheldt. Following an agreement between the Dutch and Belgian governments in 1995, many of these wrecks have been removed to improve shipping access to Antwerp. It was expected that the last 38 wrecks in the shipping channel would be removed during 2003. The largest wreck was the 131-metre (430 ft) long Alan A. Dale which was removed during June 2003.
The Western Scheldt was freed from German occupation in October and November 1944 by the First Canadian Army during The Battle of the Scheldt.
Hernen Castle, locally known as Kasteel Hernen, lies in the village with the same name, in the Gelderland province in the Netherlands.
Hernen Castle started out as a tower house probably in the 14th century, because the Lords of Hernen were first mentioned in a document in 1247. This tower-house stood at the southeast corner of a rectangular bailey. The defence wall of the bailey was some 2,5 meters thick and had three corners towers beside the tower-house. This defence wall was equipped with crenellations, arrow loops, a wall walk on arches and a moat circling the castle.
With the passing of time the need arose for more room for servants, soldiers and new family members. Therefore several buildings were built against the inside of the defence wall of the bailey, thus reducing the size of the bailey. The arches supporting the wall walk however can still be seen in some of the rooms. Hernen Castle has a covered wall walk which makes it unique in the Netherlands.
In 1682 the castle was auctioned and became the property of a Philip Hendrik van Steenhuys. Later the castle went to the families De Béthune and D'Ennetieres. These families from the Southern Netherlands (present-day Belgium) weren't very interested in their castle in Hernen and almost never visited it so they didn't modernize the castle. This saved its medieval appearance although the moat at the eastern side of the castle was filled in.
The great tower-house however which formed the origin of Hernen Castle is now gone. It was still standing at the beginning of the 19th century, but when the first pictures of Hernen Castle were taken about 1890 it was gone. What happened to it is recorded nowhere. Probably it collapsed during a winter storm due to the fact that its late-medieval occupants had cut out the walls from the inside to gain space and so had weakened the walls of the structure.
Of the many different types of windmill: polder mills, grist mills, sawmills, oil mills and malt mills that previously operated in Dordrecht, only one remains: Kyck over den Dyck, a tower mill that projects high above the Noordendijk. The malt mill, which was built in 1713, was later used to grind grain. The last restoration restored this use. The mill operates on Saturdays, the platform offers a splendid view and the shop sells products from the mill including flour and biscuits.
Goedereede is a city and former municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The former municipality had a population of about 11,000 in 2010, and covered an area of about 154 km² of which about 83 km² was water. It consisted of the west part of the island of Goeree-Overflakkee. Goedereede merged with Dirksland, Middelharnis, and Oostflakkee into the new municipality of Goeree-Overflakkee on January 1, 2013.
Goedereede received city rights in 1312 from Sir Gereart van Voorne. The future Pope Adrian VI (1459–1523) was at one time pastor of the parish church of Goedereede. During a great fire in Goedereede in 1482 the old "Katharina Church" and its tower were destroyed. A new church was erected in 1512 beside the Toren van Goedereede (Goederede Tower), which still stands today. Goederede went into a long decline, losing trade to better-sited ports. There were insufficient funds to maintain the church. In 1706 the dilapidated building was pulled down, but the tower was preserved.
The former municipality of Goeree also includes the communities of, from west to east, Ouddorp, Goedereede (with Havenhoofd), Oostdijk, and Stellendam.
The Brouwersdam is a dam, part of the Delta Works, from the island Goeree-Overflakkee to Schouwen-Duiveland, in Zeeland. The Haringvlietsluizen are floodgates, also part of the Delta Works, from Goedereede to the border of Westvoorne and Hellevoetsluis on the island of Voorne-Putten.
Income consists mainly of tourism and fishery. Because of the extended beach close by, Ouddorp has a large number of camping grounds. Ouddorp, Goedereede and Stellendam have all an extended fishing fleet.
Macro Mondays: "Inspired by a Song"
Size: 2" in height
One Dance with You by Tony Christie
We were just friends
Whenever we met
We simply smiled hello
We had a short walk
Exchanging small talk
Little did we know
That magical night
We met at a club
I asked if you wanted to dance
I held you near
Had no idea
We were heading for romance
One dance with you
Made me realize
You were my lady
You were my baby
As I looked in your eyes
Love came and hit me
Right out of the blue
I can't forget that one dance with you
Time has passed by
Things haven't changed
I know they never will
We'll stay together
Loving forever
Time had just stood still
Whenever we dance
It happens again
Just like it did before
'cause I hold you to me
Memories run through me
As we go round the floor
One dance with you
Made me realize
You were my lady
You were my baby
As I looked in your eyes
Love came and hit me
Right out of the blue
I can't forget that one dance with you.
there are many species of Phyllobius and there is a similar genus, Polydrosus. The latter genus is chiefly separated by a clear cut black antennal groove towards the eye. I cannot be sure to have hit on the right species.
The members of the genus Phyllobius are known to have green scales and to sit on leaves of herbs, bushes or trees. The larvae live in the soil.
Due to the fact that the wind comes almost from West, the waves become the same direction, from W to E, and wash the sand away
To stop/make less this washout effect, to break the stronght of the waves - that's the reason of this pillars. In the northern part of Zeeland there are beaches , many km long, and there are this pillars, always two lines together, repeating so about 500m. Depending from tide/low tide you can see 2,0m or nothing from them.
Bees pollinate flowers, which means they transfer the pollen made by one flower of one plant to the flower of another plant. Bees do not purposely do this. Actually, the bees are trying to collect the pollen to take back to their hives. In the process of going from one flower to another as they collect pollen, some pollen is picked up from one flower and accidentally dropped on another flower. Pollination results in the formation of seeds.
Castle Doorwerth is located on the banks of the Rhine River, between Wageningen and Arnhem. The castle’s immediate surroundings are beautiful; it is located at the point where the steep wooded lateral moraine of the Veluwezoom merges into the broad floodplains of the Lower Rhine. In between the two geological areas lies the beautiful medieval castle, surrounded by abundant moats. The castle is mentioned in historical documents dating back as far as 1260, making it one of the oldest castles in Holland.
The oldest tree in Holland
Since 1280, the castle has grown to become a picturesque complex of buildings with a ward and an outer ward. During the Second World War, the castle suffered major damage, and after undergoing restorations for a period of 37 years, it is once again the beautiful water castle it used to be.
One of the oldest trees in Holland is also located on the Castle Doorwerth grounds. The trunk of the Robinia (acacia) tree has a circumference of seven meters (almost 23 feet), and was planted around the year 1600. Two similar trees were destroyed during the Battle of Arnhem.
The Dordtse Biesbosch is an approximately 1000 hectare part of the Hollandse Biesbosch . It can be found on the southern part of the Island of Dordrecht .
The Dordtse Biesbosch is located on the Hollandsch Diep and the Nieuwe Merwede next to the Moerdijk Bridge south of Dordrecht . Accessible from the A16 , exit 20 's Gravendeel, via the N3, direction Dordtse Biesbosch.
The Dordtse Biesbosch consists of various 'plates', such as the Janusplaat, Noorderelsplaat, Hoge Biezenplaat, Tongueplaat, Lower and Upper Beversluisplaat, Koekplaat. There is also the Stormhoek area and the Lepelaarsgat, Noorderdiep and Zeehondengat waters.
The Biesbosch Center Dordrecht is located near Dordrecht, which is owned by Nature and Recreation Board De Hollandse Biesbosch.
The hamlet Battenoord is located on the embankment with the Grevelingenmeer, a saltwater lake visited by several waterfowl such as greylag geese, brent geese, oystercatchers and large goosanders.
From the time a dragonfly egg hatches, it can live anywhere from six months to six years, but only about two months as an actual dragonfly. (fact, most of the time spent is as a nymph in the water before the dragonfly’s metamorphosis into a full grown dragonfly.)
In the old days, dragonflies would seek out bad kids and sew their mouths together with their claspers while they slept. Dragonflies were known as the devil’s darning needles. (myth – dragonflies don’t have pockets to carry the thread to the beds of sleeping wicked children.)
The castle was built between 1350 and 1375. In 1534 Renswoude was recognised as a knight royal residence. In 1623 castle Borchwal already expire as Johan van Reede become the owner . This Calvinistic priest finds a church more important than the rebuilding, of his own castle. In the house, on its property where Protestant meetinings kept, the house become much too small. He gets authorisation to build its own church near the castle. This fine cupola church was taken in 1641 in use. Then late Johan van Reede demolishes in 1654 the old castle and build the new, current castle.
The castle park developed itself as from that time slowly in a baroque park, with a straight alley pattern. In 1682 Johan are succeeded by his third zoon, Frederik Adriaan. He was married with Maria Duyst van Voorhout. During the absence of her man she let dig now the Grand still existing canal, compared with the castle alley. Because of this big work, much unemployed persons could helped with the work. But it had been especially intended as a surprise for her man, They are Versailles lgarden overs in that time, so they build there own French garden. On 28 November 1985 there was a big fire on the castle. The fire made a damage of millions of guldens. All the next day, they started with setting up wharf and rebuild the damage. This was reached by the energy of the current owner, baron Taets van Amerongen. In the meantime the castle has been restored entirely. For groups the castle be visit.
Smile on Saturday: On Pure White
Thank you all my dear Flickr friends for being so kind to wish me on my birthday. It's great to have friends like you.
Yes the sky was beautiful for
a photographer just before the hailstorm, but after some shots we have to walk back to the car about 20 minutes. That was not a pleasure, that can I say..
The windmill complex of Kinderdijk represents the courageous fight of the Dutch against the sea level. For many years, the windmills of Kinderdijk kept the land, which was continually threatened by floods and soil compaction, dry.
The Alblasserwaard – once an untamed and wet peatland – was eventually inhabited by humans, who built windmills in the area to drain the water. Besides Kinderdijk and its 19 iconic windmills, you can also visit the villages of Streefkerk and Oud-Alblas during your cycle trip. Cycle along canals and small rivers, take the ferry and enjoy the impressive views and charming farmhouses.
De Biesbosch National Park is one of the few freshwater tidal areas of the world. Several rivers come together to form a freshwater delta of approximately 8,000 hectares. The nature reserve is subjected to the influence of the tides and has unique flora and fauna. The leisure facilities are set up in such a way that you will have everything you need, and sit back to see nature take its course without disturbance.
Beavers, Kingfishers and Sea Eagles
You can stroll or bike through De Biesbosch National Park, but the most exciting way to explore the nature reserve is by boat. You can rent a boat or canoe yourself, or join an organized tour in an electric boat and admire the creeks and willow trees in the Biesbosch. Guides will point out the flora and fauna in this area.
The beaver is the most remarkable animal of the Biesbosch. By now these rodents have built over a hundred lodges in the Biesbosch wetlands. In addition, hundreds of bird species are breeding in the area as well, including some 20 pairs of kingfishers. The sea eagle is a frequent guest, being spotted in the area throughout the year. The Biesbosch is truly a water paradise.
There is no concrete evidence on who exactly was the first to invent the windmill, whether it was the Chinese or the Persians is up for debate. Regardless, both cultures began using this technology around the same time for the same purposes.
Some believe that the windmill technology was brought to Northern Europe as a result of the crusades, however their horizontal axis design rather than the vertical axis system, makes it just as likely that the Europeans discovered their windmill independently. The first existing illustrations from 1270 A.D. show blue-prints of the post mill type of windmill.
The post mill was composed of a four bladed mill mounted onto a central post, which used wooden cog-and-ring gears to covert the motion of the horizontal shaft to vertical motion that turned a grind stone. According to the Illustrated History of Wind Development, the wooden cog-and-ring gear was used by Vitruvius, an engineer of the Augustan Age, to develop the first horizontal axis water wheel.
The tower mill design is believed to have come into existence around the late 1300s, with the earliest known illustration being of a Normandy Mill between 1430 and 1440. The tower mill was made with sloping walls, a cap that could be rotated, a horizontal wind shaft, and vertical sails.
The smock mill, developed by the Dutch in 1526 based on the tower mill, is a vertical tapered tower with four to six sides topped with a cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind. The smock mill was named from its resemblance to the smocks worn by farmers at the time.
Over the next 500 years windmills gained many diverse applications beyond just water-pumping and grinding grain including irrigation, drainage pumping, saw milling of timber, and processing tobacco, spices, cocoa, paints, and dyes.
Kinderdijk lies in the Alblasserwaard, at the confluence of the Lek and Noord rivers. In Alblasserwaard, problems with water became more and more apparent in the 13th century. Large canals, called "weteringen", were dug to get rid of the excess water in the polders. However, the drained soil started setting, while the level of the river rose due to the river's sand deposits. Most of the current mills were built in 1738 and 1740 (see below).
After a few centuries, an additional way to keep the polders dry was required. It was decided to build a series of windmills, with a limited capacity to bridge water level differences, but just able to pump water into a reservoir at an intermediate level between the soil in the polder and the river; the reservoir could be let out into the river through locks whenever the river level was low enough; the river level has both seasonal and tidal variations. Although some of the windmills are still used, the main water works are provided by two diesel pumping stations near one of the entrances of the windmills site.
Surrounded by a wide moat, stands at the edge of the graceful Mastbos. The castle is first mentioned in documents dated 1554. In 1614 it was converted into a hunting lodge. Kasteel Bouvigne borders on a beautiful garden. Nothing is known of landscape gardening in the16th century. The present garden is open to the public and integrates French, German and English styles of the 20th century. Bouvigne castle is a charming building outside Breda, in the Mastbos forest. Its present look dates mainly from the 17th century. For a long time, the princes of Orange used it as their summer house. The castle, that stands in the water, was built in a typical renaissance style. Its beautiful gardens are open to the public.
In the middle of the village Scherpenzeel, behind the Dorpsstraat, Huis Scherpenzeel. In the fourteenth century fortified house was on this spot. Scherpenzeel lay on a strategically important location on the border between the provinces of Gelderland and Utrecht. The house you see now is built in the 18th century. At this time the House is used for public gatherings, including weddings. The park is open for visitors
Warmont Castle is located north of the village along the main road. Huys te Warmont is built on the site of a medieval castle dating from 1250, incorporating traces of medieval architecture.The original timber structures were replaced by buildings that were subsequently damaged by fire in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries and rebuilt each time on the old foundations.A 16th-century drawing makes it possible to reconstruct the medieval original, when the castle consisted of a square ground-plan of four wings and four corner towers set around an interior court, the whole surrounded by a moat. The living-quarters were in the north and east wings. The massive west tower was once assumed to have been the keep, but the thickness of its walls and its dimensions are too small for this purpose. In 1629 the castle was given a new entrance range by Salomon de Bray, featuring pilasters and a broad pediment. The south tower, originally octagonal, was replaced by a square one after 1650. Owing to the various rebuilding projects, Warmond acquired an irregular character in the course of the centuries. In 1780 the castle was extensively rebuilt. Floor levels and the proportions of the rooms were altered, and the walls were stuccoed. Medieval remains were hidden by new walls and plasterwork; de Bray’s additions disappeared.
Soelen Castle, near the village of Zoelen, is a beautiful castle in the Betuwe, surrounded by a beautiful and large estate. The castle is privately owned and not open to visitors, but the estate surrounding the castle is located, is opened. Here one can stroll along the broad, posh avenues, paths and the pendulum through the vast meadows and cornfields. The castle with its beautiful port, its bridge over the Canal, its high Square Tower and beautifully crowned roofs is on a raised island. Castle Soelen is good to walk around it and to pictures out of it.
History
The popularity and history of Castle Soelen goes back to about 1263. in 1355 was the castle destroyed. Arnold van Soelen rebuilt the Castle, causing a conflict arose with the count of Geldre.
In 1362 had to Vijay Kumar is surrender to the authority of Duke Eduard. In the 17th century, a French-style park surrounding the Castle. A century later, this garden was made in the English landscape style.
The estate is now owned by the Forestry Commission and the castle is privately inhabited. The Castle Soelen and the estate is well seen by many nature lovers and photographers.
There is no concrete evidence on who exactly was the first to invent the windmill, whether it was the Chinese or the Persians is up for debate. Regardless, both cultures began using this technology around the same time for the same purposes.
Some believe that the windmill technology was brought to Northern Europe as a result of the crusades, however their horizontal axis design rather than the vertical axis system, makes it just as likely that the Europeans discovered their windmill independently. The first existing illustrations from 1270 A.D. show blue-prints of the post mill type of windmill.
The post mill was composed of a four bladed mill mounted onto a central post, which used wooden cog-and-ring gears to covert the motion of the horizontal shaft to vertical motion that turned a grind stone. According to the Illustrated History of Wind Development, the wooden cog-and-ring gear was used by Vitruvius, an engineer of the Augustan Age, to develop the first horizontal axis water wheel.
The tower mill design is believed to have come into existence around the late 1300s, with the earliest known illustration being of a Normandy Mill between 1430 and 1440. The tower mill was made with sloping walls, a cap that could be rotated, a horizontal wind shaft, and vertical sails.
The smock mill, developed by the Dutch in 1526 based on the tower mill, is a vertical tapered tower with four to six sides topped with a cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind. The smock mill was named from its resemblance to the smocks worn by farmers at the time.
Over the next 500 years windmills gained many diverse applications beyond just water-pumping and grinding grain including irrigation, drainage pumping, saw milling of timber, and processing tobacco, spices, cocoa, paints, and dyes.
The Dalem gate in Gorinchem is the only remaining city gate of the original four that the fortress city counted after the upgrade of the ramparts which was completed in 1609. The other three were the pulpit the Arkel gate and the Water port, port. The remaining gates were demolished to make room for the growing traffic. The Dalem gate was 1597 and has a turret with a clock. There under the gate only a footpath in the direction of the river Merwede. Who follow the path, get a good view of the near the Dalem gate in the city walls built corn mill De Hoop.
Sybil of months, and worshipper of winds,
I love thee, rude and boisterous as thou art;
And scraps of joy my wandering ever finds
Mid thy uproarious madness—when the start
Of sudden tempests stirs the forest leaves
Into hoarse fury, till the shower set free
Stills the huge swells. Then ebb the mighty heaves,
That sway the forest like a troubled sea.
I love thy wizard noise, and rave in turn
Half-vacant thoughts and rhymes of careless form;
Then hide me from the shower, a short sojourn,
Neath ivied oak; and mutter to the storm,
Wishing its melody belonged to me,
That I might breathe a living song to thee.
Yes the sky was beautiful for
a photographer just before the hailstorm, but after some shots we have to walk back to the car about 20 minutes. That was not a pleasure, that can I say..
The windmill complex of Kinderdijk represents the courageous fight of the Dutch against the sea level. For many years, the windmills of Kinderdijk kept the land, which was continually threatened by floods and soil compaction, dry.
The Alblasserwaard – once an untamed and wet peatland – was eventually inhabited by humans, who built windmills in the area to drain the water. Besides Kinderdijk and its 19 iconic windmills, you can also visit the villages of Streefkerk and Oud-Alblas during your cycle trip. Cycle along canals and small rivers, take the ferry and enjoy the impressive views and charming farmhouses.