You've heard of spring cleaning, of course....
Surely you've also heard of DUTCH cleaning!
There's a reason!!!!!!!!!
It's in their collective psyche, seriously.
And when she's on a roll, I leave her to her own devices.
Sometimes she's on a mission and wants to do it alone...and I let her.
In the meantime, my walks during the week fill up my lungs.
All the sights so familiar take on renewed life after winter's hibernation.
The harbors are starting to perk up.
And while the construction work never stopped,
it, too, is alive with music...radios not-quite blaring.
The harbors are starting to perk up.
And while the construction work never stopped,
it, too, is alive with music...radios not-quite blaring.
But it's the flowers, of course, that are screaming SPRING SPRING SPRING.
Astrid's orchids bloom all year 'round on our windowsill...
as elsewhere all over the Netherlands.
I have seen more orchids in 2 years than the rest of my life put together!
But now it's tulip time and the window of opportunity is small.
Tulips or whatever you can find. It's the Dutch way.
Astrid's orchids bloom all year 'round on our windowsill...
as elsewhere all over the Netherlands.
I have seen more orchids in 2 years than the rest of my life put together!
But now it's tulip time and the window of opportunity is small.
Tulips or whatever you can find. It's the Dutch way.
HAPPY SPRING to us all in whatever way we celebrate it. Maybe you've had a lot of it already and feel summer is here. For us, we're still in sweatshirts and jackets....but the smell and feeling of change is in the air.
