They’ve all come up and flowered – at least all the plain red ones have. There should also be some striped ones
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Tulip Watch 7
Posted in seasons, tagged tulips on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Spring is nearly over?
Posted in seasons, tagged daffodils, Weteringcircuit on April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I always associate daffodils with spring, and these are the last of the daffodils on the roundabout at Weteringcircuit.
So apparently spring is nearly over, but we haven’t had any of those hopeful, blue days that are also part of spring. Just rain, rain, rain…. and this weekend’s forecast? more rain.
Tulip Watch 5
Posted in seasons, tagged tulips on March 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The tulips might have suffered a small setback, due to snow at Easter. I know, snow at Easter sounds very very wrong.The grape hyacinths (which I don’t remember planting), have already come up and flowered so I hope they’ll be fine.
We’re not finished with the storms either – I can hear thunder in the distance.
Spring is Sprung?
Posted in seasons, tagged seasons, spring on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My tulips have come through the soil and crocuses are coming out around the city.I spotted these narcissus down along Prinsengracht, in full flower. I didn’t notice them arrive so I suspect they were forced inside and then replanted outside.
Tulip Watch 4
Posted in seasons, tagged tulips on January 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Last week these leaves were just emerging from the soil, now they’ve rocketed up to 4.5 cm. It really is early spring.
Tulip Watch 3
Posted in seasons, tagged tulips on January 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s a little hard to see, but the tulip bulbs I planted back in November have broken through the soil.
Here’s a close up of the tiny leaves that have come throuh the soil, these are about 1.5 cm long.
Tulip watch 2
Posted in seasons, tagged snow, tulips on December 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
My tulip bulbs are snowed in!Apparently it’s good for them.
Odd light
Posted in seasons, tagged Noorderkerk on December 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The sky on one side of the Noorderkerk was bright blue, the sky on the other side was a heavy purple/grey.Very beautiful and strange.
Appelbeignets on Winter Nights
Posted in food, seasons, tagged appelbeignet, apple beignet, apple doughnuts on December 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
It’s cold and dark when I travel home, but the Gebakkraam is open on Museumplein. I stopped tonight and got an “appelbeignet” which is something like an apple doughnut.
It was delicious, warm and illicitly sugary.
But not as good as I’ve made, here’s the official recipe (translated from Dutch by me)
Ingredients:
6 sour apples
lemon juice
sugar
cinnamon
150g self rising [...]
Autumn
Posted in seasons on September 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last Saturday I regretted wearing jeans, and went home to find something cooler to wear. By Monday the the temperature had shifted and there was definite coolness to my morning walk to the bus stop.Now, suddenly the leaves on the trees lining Amsterdam’s canals are changing colour. Autumn’s my favourite season but it seems [...]
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