The night of San Juan and the summer solstice are different from other nights and perhaps some magical. The day of San Juan, and thus the night, has a special meaning for me. From my childhood in Madrid I…
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I’ve always believed that creative inspiration as a ”miracle” does not exist. However, there is a spark which can germinate ideas spontaneously and naturally. Inspiration comes from the Latin word Inspiratio, process of breathing, which causes the air enters…
Yesterday I walked with the “Volksuniversiteit” in Germany, near Aachen, around Würselen and Wilhelmstein. A countryside with hills running down and up again, water flowed through the countryside, there were many sources. The erosion was visible. Walking up and…
The little details are very valuable, with a love of craft with special appeal by the hand-made. I accidentally found this web page about manual lettering. I love the design of this site and the work they do. They…
I am from Madrid, the dry Castilian plateau. Now I live in the Netherlands and have discovered in these lowlands, where water is so close to the ground, is the mist. This is wonderful. It is most common in…
Here is the second part of the best of 2015. I hope it brings you such good memories as me. I have lots of new ideas and themes for the coming year and look forward to share these with…
Just over a year I started my blog. During the making of this collage with the highlights of 2015, I was transported to special tastes and special moments. Today I show the first half of the year. It is a…
On December 22, at 08.00 in the morning for me starts Christmas. I put the Spanish radio, www.rne.es and the sound of the Christmas Lottery, takes me to the years of my childhood, the beginning of holiday with a…
Where do I get inspiration from? I think the answer is everything. I am inspired to walk, literally and figuratively, to move, to open my eyes and to get surprised. Here I show pictures of one of these walks, in…
On Wednesday, October 14th we went walking organized by the ”Volksuniversiteit”. I will tell the chronicle of this walk, Theux-Franchimont. We were in the French part of Belgium, in the Ardennes. Our starting point was the Quai des Saules in…