>.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Shoes under red coat, originally uploaded by Dia Positive. New view

>The Amsterdam School (Dutch: Amsterdamse School) is a style of architecture that arose in the early part of the 20th Century in The Netherlands.(copied from Wikipedia) Imbued with socialist ideals, it was applied to all manner of buildings, including homes and apartment blocks, and was partly a reaction to what was considered “bourgeois” neo-gothic and…

>.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Detail in Jekerstraat, originally uploaded by Dia Positive. This is another fine example of Amsterdamse School, red bricks and an ornament of concrete. The architects wanted people to feel like kings and queens. After…

> These four doors are a fine example of ‘De Amsterdamse School’, a twentieth century Dutch way of building that has a connection with Jugendstill and Art Deco, de Stijl, The New Building (Het Nieuwe Bouwen) and The Chicago School. Amsterdamse School are mainly houses in appartment blocks and schools. The South of Amsterdam was…

>This was Amsterdam sky yesterday, photo’s by Anthony StoneMore of Anthony’s sky. Awesome!

>SINTERKLAAS Today is the day. It is quiet in most streets apart from the occasional Sinterklaas with his Pete’s. I saw three Sinterklazen today and always when I see one my inner child wants to scream : Sinterklaas Sinterklaas, do you see me? Have I been a good girl? Zwarte Piet (Pete) have I been…

>It’s about time to start again. Writing I mean. Not just writing but finishing the long awaited lesbian novel that is going to be enjoyed by lesbian readers and other free thinkers. Maybe you too?First it has to be written, then it should be sold to a publisher and when the sales go well it…

>I have to turn off the computer now but I can’t. Is this computer addiction? Is there already CA, Compteralics Anonymous? Probably somewhere in America, as we call the USA. In America everything is possible and everything is thought of or thought about.But I can not get into America now.I have to turn off my…

>Mug met de Gouden Tand – Dutch Theatre It was one of those days today that it doesn’t seem to get Light. The dark days before Christmas, the sun gets up at later than 8 AM and leaves us again around 4.30 PM. But we never see the sun, s/he is hidden behind layers of…

> Amazing skies. One day I was looking outside and I saw this incredible light. I live on the ground floor and from my room I don’t see the sky, nor can I see the sun but that light was so special that I took my camera and went outside.This is taken in my garden,…