A sunny day with a cold wind, typical for a Dutch Spring.
The light is different in spring and everything seems very clear and bright.
The trees are still bare, which means that special spring flowers bloom under
the tree trunks and in the woods. They need the sun, and so they only flower when
the trees are not in leaf yet.
The mirror lakes with "De Heerlijckheit Dyckenburch" in the background
Dijkenburg is for sale if you can spare Euro 6 million!
Dijkenburg in late spring. From the website of the real estate agents
I went for a walk in a small park, Klein
Leeuwenhorst, not far from the sea and the dunes. In this area, on the border
of sand banks or dunes and low moor land, in former centuries many mansions
were built for the rich, to escape the noise of the towns and cities and enjoy
fresh air. Some of those big houses were already destroyed in the 19th
century, others in the second world war by the Germans who made this area part
of the Atlantic wall, changing decorative ponds into anti tank canals. Many
grand estates were ruined by the expanding towns and cities, by the many new roads
which cut estates into two. But a few were restored in the 1980-ies or even
later. Nowadays we try to preserve whatever we have. This wood has been
returned to its former state when it was part of an estate. Nevertheless it is
enclosed by minor roads, which have cut off some of the buildings and houses
belonging together and which are part of the same estate. A nature
preservation organisation now owns this park or piece of woodland and has restored
the English landscaped part of this estate.
Daffodils
Celandine
Daffodils were in fool bloom,
dancing in the wind. Yellow celandine looked like specks of gold amongst the
brown beech leaves.
Former stables, now a house, once part of the estate
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