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 Mills along the Zaanse Schans.The header is of the middle mill that still produces paint powder. A much sought-after product from its early days.

We can't have always blue skies. One for Skywatch Friday here.

Yes that. One for Signs, Signs here.

On the way back from yesterdays tunnel we saw an exposition about designs of the architect Berlage and followers of his ideas named " Berlage the Godfather of Dutch Design". Here the layers cloud chair by Richard Hutten made for the Danish textile producer Kvadrat.

The chair refer to the pigments found in the Painted desert Arizona.

Some wall lights from the master himself.

And some glazed bricks used for his buildings including the one where the exhibition is held. (Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam)

The effect of those bricks inside. 

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This apartment building in Apeldoorn was designed by two colleagues of my former office Bjarne Mastenbroek and Dick van Gameren. Fun is of course the facade completely covered in dutch roof tiles. This principle was al used by the so called amsterdam school around 1910-1930.

Here two bay windows. In later projects they made the bay windows more glassy with much thinner roof and floor constructions.

Every farm its wooden bridge here in Giethoorn as they are build on their own islands. The high of the bridge was determined by the harvey (or stock of cattle) that had to cross the bridges on flat wooden ships called punters (sorry, only in dutch) and propelled by long booms that where put in the bottom of the canal and the skipper walked then along the boat. The form of the boat on the photo is also a punter but a more modern version. 

One for sunday bridges here .

As here on the market cheese stall in Amersfoort.

On for Monday Mellow Yellows here .

This little bridge over a canal in Amersfoort gives way to an alley called Market corridor and yesterday when I made this picture there was market indeed. A little one for Sunday bridges here.

On a little bike trip I saw this typical dutch landscape.

Water, land and the dike in between.

Looking 90° turned a dutch polder.

First sunny sunday in weeks.

Daughters of a bulb grower are earning some extra money by selling tulips on the corner of a farm road for 2 euro's a bunch. The tulips are a by product of the growing of the bulbs so the knife cut on 2 sides . Bulbs for export and flowers for selling. After taken this picture I bought of course a few bunches of tulips.