It's raining!

It's raining outside, I love it! Temperatures have dropped to 70ºF/21ºC and it's so nice to walk outside. It will warm up today and in the next few days, but for now I will enjoy it as long as I can.

I don't really have a rainy photo, so I thought of posting a sunny photo instead. This one was taken at the High Line (a public park built on an old elevated rail line), on a very sunny and warm day a little while ago.

Bright yellow flowers at the High Line

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Skywatch Friday #9

I had such a busy, busy week. I hardly made any photos. But then there always is an archive! Found a beautiful sky-shot that I made in Holland a few weeks ago. My sister and I were driving to her house one night and we saw this beautiful sunset. I tried to make photos while she was driving but they were not that good. When we had to stop for a traffic light I had the window already down and was ready to shoot!

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Roosevelt Island tram

After living in the city for 2.5 years we finally took a ride with the Roosevelt Island tram. It's a fun ride in an aerial tram. It only takes a few minutes to travel from Midtown Manhattan to Roosevelt Island. Along the way you have excellent views of some of the avenues and you cross the East River. 

Roosevelt Island tramway

Flowers on Saturday

These dahlia's were on my mothers kitchen table, I love them, they are so pretty.
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Ten on Ten

It's that time of the month again: Ten photos over ten hours on the tenth day of the month. It's a good thing that I had a reminder in my calender, otherwise I would have forgotten all about it.

This ten on ten didn't come easy for me. When waking up this morning at 7.30 it was already hot and humid, that only got worse during the day. These summer temperatures make me cranky and it's actually a small miracle I finished with ten photos. Going back to bed crossed my mind a few times today.

I started the day with my photo camera, but it got difficult right away, I needed a tripod because it was still to dark in my kitchen for the first photo. After that I decided only to use the iPhone today, easier on a hot day like this :-).

cooking milk for my coffee

Hot, hot, hot

I really don't like to do the dishes.....

Monday I flew back to New York from my vacation in Holland. Lucky me: my mother had bought me 
some nice Dutch cheese to take with me to New York. I love it, especially on a salty rice cracker! 

As I said, I almost went back to bed. Instead I watched tv.
I have to catch up with all the tv-series I missed while I was in Holland

Read all my Dutch magazines

Mail!

I make tons of photos with my phone. Every now and then I have them printed.
They arrived in the mail today! 

I took another shower

The good thing about today is that I'm going to the movies tonight with my husband.
Looking forward to that. I even bought the tickets in advance.
(One movie tickets costs you $ 14 here in NY, are they just as expensive where you live? Or is it a New York thing?)

Weekend in Black and White #5

This photo was taken last week in Gent, Belgium.
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Have a great weekend!

St. Michielsbrug

Yesterday I visited the city of Gent in Belgium. I have never visited a city in Belgium before and that is weird actually, because it is so close by. Gent for instance is only a 2 hour drive from Zoetermeer in the Netherlands. I thought that cities in Belgium would be grey, old and boring. Gent is old and sometimes the old buildings do look kind of grey, but hey they are very old. Some of the cathedrals are more than 500 years old! But Gent is absolutely not boring.

Below we walk on the St.Michielsbrug (St. Michiels bridge) and you have a wonderful view. This bridge crosses the river Leie