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Apple blossoms, I believe, along the Kromme Rijn, which I think carries some (small portion) of the water that’s in the Rhine when it enters the Netherlands. Lovely day walk last weekend along this path into Utrecht, with many photos yet to be posted of both that city and its rural agricultural riverside neighboring areas.

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Yep, that statue’s of Rembrandt because yep, that’s Rembrantplein or Rembrandt Square.

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Welcome to the first photos from my recent trip to the Bollenstreek, which seems (according to the translations I find for its two component words in my Nederlands – Engels dictionary) “bulb district.” I’ve seen these gorgeous fields of flowers out a train window once before, but never with ability to photograph them. Many more to come in the days ahead. The first photos is daffodils by the canal at the start of our walk from the train station to the real fields of flowers… I had some “Monet moments” that day 🙂

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These are from last month in Amsterdam…still alternating pics from the US visit with pics I took mostly before I returned. If you’re curious about the seasons in various places, try to open a photo and look at the title (if you’re on a phone, you can probably do that by tapping the image but it depends what version of the blog you’re looking at – full or “lite”), because I’m mostly leaving the dates in for now 🙂

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