Jardin d’émail is an impressive artwork of French artist Jean Dubuffet in museum Kröller Müller. The artwork counts 600 square meter and people are allowed to walk on it. Since 2016, a four year restoration took place and the artwork was reopend for the audiance on June 1st, 2020.
I spent an evening searching for wildlife at the Veluwe and found a group (sounder) of wild boar. The young ones are lovely and said “to wear a pyjama”. The grown up animals seem less appealing.
The “twelve apostles” is the nickname of this impressive multi-stemmed tree (a beech) in the Wilbrinkbos, near the dutch village Voorthuizen. The roots are most likely very old, but the trunks are not, as they were cut from time to time.
It is blossom time in the Betuwe, the famous fruit region of the Netherlands.
Of course, as photographer I am bound to Corona restrictions, like everone else in the world. Fortunately, I am able to visit quiet places, not too far from home and almost always in weekdays during office hours when it is quiet in nature. And often it is possible to shoot the photo from the car.
The “Binnenveldse Hooilanden” is a new nature reserve under development and situated between the Dutch cities Ede, Wageningen, Rhenen and Veenendaal. Despite of the construction works, many birds, like this godwit, have found this area already as a good place to stay.
Blauwe Kamer is a riverside nature reserve between the Dutch cities Wageningen and Rhenen and along the river Nederrijn. The area is an interesting birding site and is home for a colony of spoonbills. Today, I encountered this foraging stork
The spoonbills are back in the country and started with nesting. This bird – seen in nature reserve “Blauwe Kamer” (see next post) – has found a usefull branch for the nest.
While the world locks down, the birds are still free to go and – like this ruff – returning to one of my favorite birding sites, Arkemheen.
Actually, I went out for something else, but nature did not show it this morning. Happily, this common pheasant was around and gave me at least a photo to bring home.
Although December is already at the corner, golden colours of fall are still around, here at Hoekelum. This area has one brook transporting the water from a source to the canal of the Hoekelum castle.