Gas

Gas, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

In the Veenkoloniaal Museum in Veendam this is part of an exhibition on natural gas mining. It is rather pink.

Museum

Musem, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

Museum, functioning as a temp museum in the building that housed the now defunct museum which followed up the original museum which now houses here temporarily.

Wuppie

Wuppie, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

Glued to the monitor

New and red

Vtefe, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

and cemented to a brick wall...

Girls

Vn, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

Discussing the farm.

Waiting

Waiting, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

My 66°NORÐUR coat hangs in the waiting room while I am waiting for the dentist.

Tower single

Toeer single, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

I love this tower with it's pointy red roof. It has a very mediaeval feel to it.

Low moon and bright headlights

Low moon, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

The moon looks full still early on a Thursday-morning in Scheemda.

Scheuveln in Scheemde

Scheuveln, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

Scheuvelaar bie klap.

Buddha and moon

B n m, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

Full moon at home.

Church without tower

Church, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

Scheemda has churches, towers, towers without churches, churches without towers. Complicated business, godwise.

Scheemda harbour with yellow klap

Schrrmda, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

Like the Rotterdam harbour only smaller.

Jewish cemetery

Reind cemetery, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

Here lie Nathan and Hermine. If I understand the Jewish calender correctly they died in 1956 or thereabouts. She died in april and the he died in september.

Moon and bridge

Kook and bridge, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

The bridge still in the sunlight.

Tree

Yrre, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

After we left the Selwerderhof cemetery, we saw the light on this tree.

House

Houdr, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

The light was low and bright this afternoon.

Scheemda

Scheemda, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

Miles Domini Indefessus. The soldier of the Lord is never weary.

Tower

Tower, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

The dark tower. Scheemda appears to be a place with single towers.

Flat church

Flat chutch, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

Only the facade, front door and tower remain. A round new church was built next to it.

Reitdiephaven in the morning

Rdh, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

The morning sun sheds quite a lot of light in my lens obfuscating much of the harbour.

Home

Home, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

Balcony and view.

Stad

Stad, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

Melting ice in the canals

Xmas is over

Xmas is ovet, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

And the ice and snow are melting which causes fog.

Freedom

Freedom, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

You gotta fight

for your right

to par.ty!

And then suddenly it started snowing.

2011-01-02 15.31.40.jpg, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

Just when we thought the winter was behind us. Wet snow stormed.

Luckily I was wearing my Icelandic wintercoat. The warmest, windstopperist, best I ever had.

Farm with blue sky and clouds

Fsrm, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

It was cold outside but the sun already has some strength. Oh no, winter has just begun. We still have January and February to live through.

The Dorkwerd bridge

Dw, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

View from the Dorkwerd bridge over the van Starkenborghkanaal which has a covering of large ice sheets.

Yet another Dorkwerd picture

Dw, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

Yes, the new house means new walking routines. Dorkwerd is on the trail now.

Sheep out in the field

Sheep, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

In the field next to the spooky farm (where I once saw the female farmer with a scythe over her shoulder walk in the twilight) there were some sheep grazing.

Landscape with a bit of snow

Ls, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

The snow is melting fast but in the shadowier parts there is still some snow and ice, frozen land.

Tool left behind

Tool, originally uploaded by XPeria2Day.

In the last remains of the once large section of meadows on the university site a farming tool was left along the barbed wire.