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... as we near the Thames Estuary.
It was cold at this stage, and a bit wet -- but this was a lovely deck, and a great place to sit and enjoy in slightly better weather!
On popular request: a closer crop of my earlier tulip capture: www.flickr.com/photos/johan_leiden/2400757069/. Please let me know your favorite.
a close up of tulips similar to those shown in the previous picture.....(but less orange, more yellow!)
(requires Google Earth)
there are millions of wonderful images covering this unbelievable parkscape...mine are just a drop in the ocean...but its my ocean,,,
Nederland, Zuid-Holland, Bent, 28-04-2017. Polder Groenendijk, midden in het Groene Hart (ten Westen van Leiden). Boortunnel van de hogesnelheidslijn doorkruist dit gebied ondergronds, de gebouwen maken onderdeel uit van de zogenaamde vluchtschacht, de nooduitgang.
The drill tunnel of the high-speed train (HST) runs through this underground area, the buildings are part of the so-called flight shaft, the emergency exit.
luchtfoto (toeslag op standard tarieven);
aerial photo (additional fee required);
copyright foto/photo Siebe Swart
Nederland, Noord-Holland, Gemeente Anna Paulowna, 16-04-2012; bollenvelden in de Anna Paulownapolder.
Flower fields (bulb fields) in the Anna Pavlovna Polder.
luchtfoto (toeslag), aerial photo (additional fee required);
copyright foto/photo Siebe Swart
Dutch bulbfields -
Tulips (Tulipa) form a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes (having bulbs as storage organs). The flowers are usually large, showy and brightly coloured, generally red, yellow, or white. They often have a different coloured blotch at the base of the tepals (petals and sepals, collectively), internally. Because of a degree of variability within the populations, and a long history of cultivation, classification has been complex and controversial. The tulip is a member of the Liliaceae (lily) family, along with 14 other genera, where it is most closely related to Amana, Erythronium and Gagea in the tribe Lilieae. There are about 75 species, and these are divided between four subgenera. The name "tulip" is thought to be derived from a Persian word for turban, which it may have been thought to resemble. Tulips originally were found in a band stretching from Southern Europe to Central Asia, but since the seventeenth century have become widely naturalised and cultivated (see map). In their natural state they are adapted to steppes and mountainous areas with temperate climates. Flowering in the spring, they become dormant in the summer once the flowers and leaves die back, emerging above ground as a shoot from the underground bulb in early spring.