Melting, a long way to go

The sun is high in the sky, there is a lot of snow yet to melt

Cow Clipping

We will get the classifier soon, so Rien is clipping tails

What a difference

Today walking in the sun, after coffee & a muffin

Saturday picking Marc up from drum lessons

Back in the snow

It is still winter in Ontario

New sticky snow for building forts

Watch dog

Holland - Birds in the cold

These days there are cormorants in de Lier
when we still lived there we didn't see them

We arrived when ice was still in the river

The ducks are standing on ice in the rain, brr.

Blue Heron

Dutch Flowers

Ineke and Arie grow Cymbidium orchids

they try to grow them as straight as possible
with the help of a spring loaded hook and line

little branches they try to sell like this
in Glass with "gel balls" & water in the bottom

Usually annuals would have been going in the ground

but the only flowers we saw outside were some snowdrops

Sunday

Last Sunday we walked to church in de Lier

It is the church in this picture, as you can see spring is still to come

Goodbye Flowers

Pa Noordam

Today Rien's dad passed away

Cops & Robbers

Marc's friends came over for his birthday party

We had "gourmetten" for our meal

But the main part was playing Cops & Robbers
they were outside for hours