Yachts in their harbour berths.
Interior of a quay-side resident's cottage kitchen, with a backsplash of antique Delft tiles and checkerboard tiles lining the soapstone sink.
Antique Dutch porcelain and enamel canisters.
In our Dutch kitchen: ripe cherry tomatoes on a handpainted Italian pottery platter.
Dark clouds have rolled in and we are anticipating a thunderstorm to help relieve the heat and high humidity that's made it difficult to sleep for the past week. I'm also trying to meet some deadlines - back soon with a "proper" post. Hope you have some nice weekend plans!
P.S. As an American, I never thought I'd see such irony. This week, newspaper headlines around the world proclaimed that the US attorney general assured the Russian president that it "wouldn't seek the death penalty or torture" Edward Snowden." It appears that few governments give credence to such broad statements, particularly after 1) treatment of Bradley Manning while in custody and 2) the major diplomatic furore over US insistence that European Union countries divert and search the Bolivian president's plane from Moscow, simply because of a rumour that Snowden was on board (he wasn't).
Meanwhile, critics of the NSA's widespread surveillance program will testify before Congress.
As for the American president, his campaign promises to protect whistleblowers have been scrubbed from the web. Deeply disappointing.
I want that kitchen. I want it lots and I want it now! (And I love every photo in that post!).
And I couldn't agree more about the Snowden irony!
Posted by: jeanie | 29 July 2013 at 19:46
Love the cottage photos-they make me sit back and smile each time I look at them. The descent of even local politics to new depths is truly mind numbing. Matters only seem to get worse as one travels up the political food chain. So very disappointing on so many different levels.
Posted by: Mary H. | 29 July 2013 at 00:52
Gorgeous photos! That sink is so wonderful...I almost wouldn't mind doing dishes! And the boat photos are so lovely, too.
Politics: Have given up hope for myriad reasons. Very sad. Everything we learned growing up is now being negated and the mood is just plain uncivil even here in New England which I thought was the last bastion of civility.
Posted by: Helen | 28 July 2013 at 11:40
Yes, so disappointing!
And people wonder why we are hated in so many other places in the world.
Love the summertime photos!
Posted by: Marilyn | 28 July 2013 at 02:55
Postcard perfect and a breath of fresh air, Tara. Wonderful! Today I am letting go of the PS information, *sigh*. Politics will always disppoint me.
Posted by: Natalie | 27 July 2013 at 18:58