A class about the beginning of the universe

This is so great to watch..Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf is explaning the way the universe began..Sadly it's only to understand by people who can speak Dutch. But it's so great to hear i had to share it...

He did a second class about the smallest parts in the universe. So great! Also in Dutch. It's possibe to see it here

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Double, triple L for Luck....

Goodmorning!

Yesterday I photographed this rainbow..I got a huge WOW moment when I downloaded the pictures from my I phone onto my computer. I looked at them closely I discovered a second rainbow on top of the other. That must mean luck with a big L J

And I swear the rainbow starts in my apartment building. Behind the houses in the front, you can see where the rainbow starts. And i mean it looks like it starts exactly at the place where our building stands...even though you can't see the building in this photo..But i know it is right there J

This must mean double, no triple LUCK!!!!!!!

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Painting black women

I have a fascination with black women’s faces and their moves...I think they are just gorgeous. I wish I was that good of a painter that I could paint what I see in them. Not only their outer beauty but also paint how I perceive them on an energy level, their incredible strength, ability of endurance, sexiness and their boldness...I live in a neighborhood where I am constantly surrounded by African women. It gives me the opportunity to study their faces and moves up-close, I just whish I could paint what I see...sometimes I try but never feel I succeed at it as I would like to..

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A wonderful day, NDSM shipyard Amsterdam

My sister, my kids and me had a wonderful day at the Amsterdam shipyard called NDSM. It’s a wonderful mysterious and very very inspiring place. Traveling there is an adventure by itself for little two and four year olds. There is a ferry going there from Amsterdam central station. It was a extremely bright and sunny day. Which was perfect whether to take pictures in.

And on top of that I came across a few still blossoming elderflower bushes. I was so happy! Elderflowers blossoms hold my total attention this year. Last year I already was dying silk and cotton fabric with them, but this year I tried some more, currently I am making syrup to make fresh and delightful lemonade with. Because of this year’s extremely warm and dry whether their blossoms turn into berries a lot earlier then normally, so I was out harvesting the blossoms a few times last week and could find just enough blossoms to dye another batch of fabrics and make the lemonade. What I would like to try next year is to make fried elderflower blossom as an entrée at a dinner party and to make some facial cleaning tonic as well. As I read the list of what one can do with this magical flower it seems so incredible this can all be done with these blossoms. Their smell alone is mesmerizing...Coming up in a new blog post are some pics of the lemonade being made and a translation of the syrup recipe.....

Some beautiful architecture pics seen at the NDSM shipyard...

Anxiously waiting for the ferry to pick us up..

In the water behind my son you see an old black submarine ones owned by the Russians. The colors in this picture remind me of those old pictures of me and my sister when we were little. Hurray for I-Phone photographs :))

 This building i find sooo beautiful! It's an apartment building build partly over the water.

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Blossom rains and broken i phones

Today (-and any other day this past week) was heavenly whether wise...Yesterday I decided in the spur of the moment to buy a new bike on my way home from work. I did not want to enter any inside of any vehicle to find my way home any longer. I wanted to breathe the air and to see the blossoms falling and feel the sun on my skin. My husband’s bike got stolen again recently. Apparently we live in a "we hate bikes outside the apartment building” type of neighborhood. Any bike of us that we leave outside for more than 10 minutes, to go up for a sec is mysteriously gone by the time we get back. It’s pretty frustrating I can tell you.

Any way my husband is using mine since his got stolen again. And I am going to work by metro and tram most of the time any way since I work about 10 km(sorry no idea how many miles that is) from home usually. But yesterday I felt this incredible urge it called “I NEED TO BE OUTSIDE BIKING NOW”!!! So I bought a new secondhand bike, she wasn't super expensive neither super cheap, but I think I did myself a huge favor :)))

The other thing is what just happened and is pretty frustrating as well is that while flying home on my new bike and while listening to the radio on my I-phone, it suddenly stopped. And I haven't been able to get it back on since, the I-phone itself I mean, not just the radio. I did not even have her for such a long time, maybe one year now, but I think even a commercially high profile gadget like this one has a longer life then just one year? I'm hoping it will get back on as mysteriously as it turned itself off....help me hoping please....

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Have I ever told you....

Have I ever told you i  live in a very inspiring neighborhood of Amsterdam? It’s in an outside skirt, famous for its diversity of inhabitants and also for some less positive stuff, but that doesn't matter for this post. It's called "the Bijlmer" and some people call it “Little Africa”. And that last name really fits like a glove because sometimes when I do my grocery shopping I become conscious of the fact that I’m the only white person there. It’s kind of a strange feeling, but I also like this feeling because with it comes the perk of being around a lot of inspirational people :))   

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Great coffee here

 Love this Amsterdam Café. It has a Mediterranean atmosphere to it and is run by a couple of Moroccan guys. Every time I visit it seems I’m back in Spain where I lived for a couple of years back in the early 90tees. I sound old, don’t I. It’s walls are totally covered with portrait photo’s they took of the visitors of their café. I think it both is a genius idea and looks fabulous. The girl in the bottom pic is my sis.

• Last but not least they serve the best café latte in town :)

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