Manhole Covers

A couple of years ago I visited Lisbon with my daughter. 

We went to the former Expo, wich was held in 1998. 

I spotted a manhole cover made especially for this event.

 Since that time I looked in cities for a manhole cover showing someting about the city.

Don't think I only look at the ground :)

 Copenhagen

Copenhagen

 Copenhagen

 Prague

 Berlin

And this one is in my hometown Nijmegen

On Pinterest I have a board of manhole covers.

Playing Scrabble

Every weekend I go to my mom's place for a couple of hours.

She is 90 years old, but still lives on her own. Every now and then she bakes delicious cakes. 

She likes to play Scrabble.

So every weekend we play Scrabble.

Etsy finds

To my surprise one of my notebooks got featured on an edition of Etsy finds last week :-)

Beautiful sky

 This morning I looked outside and there was a beautiful sky.

The sun coloured the vapour trails in beautiful colours.

Jopie Huisman (1922-2000)

Jopie Huisman was born in Workum in the north of the Netherlands in 1922.

During WWII he was forced to work in Germany, he escaped in 1943.

He wanted to be a painter, but he earned not enough so he started a business in old metal and old clothes.

He started to paint objects as clothing and shoes, but also landscapes.

The outside of the museum

The inside

Selfportrait

My favorite is the red coat hanging on the clothesline. Have you heard of Jopie before?

The first two pictures were taken from the website of the museum, the other
ones are scanned postcards.

Old pictures

Sunday was a grey day, a good day to look in the box with old pictures.

My parents married in september 1947, two years after WW II.

Moms dress was made from an old parachute.

In city hall to sign the official papers.

The houses in the back were a gift from the Swedish government

because there were many houses destroyed in the war.  

The river De Waal

Sunday, after a visit at a postcard fair, we drove home.

Instead of taking the highway we drove among the river.

A lot of geese

Sculpture by Jan Vos, 2003

A former brickfactory, that's now used as houses.

A small church