Beauty

I was on a holiday for the last 2 weeks in my native Holland. The main reason was to celebrate 2 life events, one my MIL's 90th birthday and the second my aunt's 70th birthday. Lots of family and food. There is such beauty in people and community!

Mom, Dad, t. Lies

Since it was May, the gardens were in full bloom and we visited several and just soaked in the beauty of nature and its many colours.

Of course I could not go to Europe without visiting a quilt store and we finally found one in Borger, right beside the "Hunebedden", ancient burial places made out of the huge rocks left behind after the ice age. There is beauty in history as well, as we oohed and aahed over all the old buildings we saw.

a "hunebed"

Bremen, market

Schnoor, quarter in Bremen

   

Oh, yes, the quilt store was in a typical little Dutch farm house and I picked up a few treasures there as well.

There's beauty in so many different ways in so many places. One of the joys of travel is to explore and experience this. And then there's always the beauty of coming home to our own house and being greeted by the kids and cat!