At the garden center

Both photos were taken at Foltz nursery & gardens. Inside the barn -entrance through the blue door- garden tools are sold, as well as vintage items for home and garden. And there's the pay desk for all that you wish to bring home.

Happy Saturday!

Yellow

We seem to be going from one glorious Summer day to another. It was really a hot one today.

Both photos were taken last Sunday at Foltz nursery and gardens. Mmmm..  wish I'd written down the name of those yellow flowers, they're lovely don't you think?

Red coneflower

This is one of many variaties of coneflowers that we saw at Foltz nursery & gardens today, in the small village of Meeden. This weekend they held their annual 'Salvia and Echinacea-days'. Isn't this red coneflower a beauty?

Aalden farmhouse

One more post with photos from our hike last Sunday, with a farmhouse and barn in the village of Aalden.

The separate barn in front of the farmhouse has been decorated with plaited reed, something that can be seen more in this region. To see a previous post about this click HERE.

I´m linking to Tom´s Barn Collective.

Small white

Small whites ('koolwitje' in Dutch) are also common butterflies here. Maybe not as colourful as the peacock butterfly from yesterday's photo, though a beautiful sight as well.

Peacock butterfly

The peacock butterfly ('dagpauwoog' in Dutch) is a common butterfly here. I took this one on a buddleja in our garden a few days ago.

Klencke

Crossing a brook in the Klencke nature area, near Zweeloo.

Countryside

Continuing with our hike from last Sunday with a view on farmer's grounds near Zweeloo. The path we followed is on the right.

Dry spell

We have been having warm and dry Summer weather lately, which is giving farmers a hard time as they need rain for their crops. Due to the falling underground water level it has been forbidden to water the fields in some parts of our country, here it is still allowed though.

Sunday hike

We passed this barn earlier today as our hike went through the small village of Zweeloo. It has a nice thatched roof.

I'm linking to Tom's Barn Collective.

Urban Buddha

The Urban Buddha Sculpture in the Rensenpark in Emmen is made from recycled wood and plastic waste materials -such as a vacuum cleaner, a laminating machine and a printer. The Buddha is 2.00 x 1.6 m and was made during the event 'Emmen goes Eco' last April.

Nice detail is that raccoons lived on this particular spot for many years; the Rensenpark is on the location of the former Northern Zoo ('Noorder Dierenpark').

3D streetart no.4

 

One more from the city of Leeuwarden by street artist Leon Keer. The arrows point to the Fries Museum in the background.

I'm linking to Sami's Colourful World.