DAY 5

A house in BRUGGE… COLOUR CO-ORDINATED with the plants!
The Wisteria still has some purple blooms pending although it is late Summer now.
All purple, very attractive!


Have a wonderful day, filled with love and beauty, M, (*_*)
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A few miles from Brugge, you have the small town of Damme.
In the Middle-Ages, this used to be the harbour of Brugge, one of the wealthiest cities in the North.
Due to silt the North Sea is now about 25 miles out, but Damme retained it's reputation for good food and beer, wonderful old buildings full of the history of revolutionary Flanders.
Centuries later Napoleon saw the importance of the area and ordered a system of canals to be built.
Today, whichever road you come from, if you want to get to Damme, you'll drive along those beautiful treelined canals.
I walked across a small path at a major junction, in Oostkerke, of those magnificent, unique tree lined canals, this one started under my feet.Behind me are syphons and sluices.
The edge frilled with the giant leaves of wild rhubarb it stretched as far as I could see and got lost in the clouds, just like was described in the poems and songs of Jacques Brel.
Two rows of trees on the left, three on the right, UNIQUE!

THANX for ALL your comments and visits, so appreciated, too many to be returned (sadly, however I DO try!... )



Have a wonderful day, filled with love and beauty, M, (*_*)


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Why not view the set as a slide-show?
Also I often upload more than one image at the same time, I see a tendency to only view the last uploaded...

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DAY 3

The sky is white with heat, we return home for the car, we’ll flee the city for a cooler place!
So, on the way home, another photo of one of the famous bridges.
The Peerdenbrug is first mentioned in 1392; it was a wooden bridge already rebuilt in 1431.
This bridge was, like the nearby Meebrug an important link between the city and the adjoining suburb, called the "Braamberg".
The current stone arch bridge dates back to 1642. In addition to the bridge, along the Groenerei, they built a watering hole for horses.
From 1855 was advocated by the residents to remove the watering hole, which happened in 1862. .
The Peerdenbrug a humpback bridge.

Until recently it was assumed that the Groenerei is not a natural watercourse, but a canal dug by humans to meet a distant watermill.
It was dug by the 11th century. According to its current views the Groenerei is indeed a segment of the natural course of the Reie.
From 1127 made the Groenerei part of the first city walls of Bruges.
Groenerei translates into ‘Green canal’, I see why!

Have a wonderful day, filled with love and beauty, M, (*_*)
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A blustery first day of Spring n Flanders. Once more, one of our favourite pass-times, to meander through 'le plat pays', the area behind the sea and dunes called the 'polders'. Endless views, broken up by beautiful, often old trees. When you see a row it usually means there is either a road or some water, a canal... a group of lined, 'organised' trees around a farm, protecting it.
Along a road, you sometimes see there must have been a 'seam' of the same trees, but most of them have 'fallen' over the years and every so often one giant is still standing strong! You can almost follow the winding road by the trees.
The wind was sweeping coldly across the winter-barren land, stopped only briefly by some trees or farms, to continue its rage over grass and clay.

Thank you, M, (*_*)
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They came in their thousands... thousands of red-stain poppies on the land...
WE OWE OUR LIVES today to those who fell...
I made this image from 2, one a war memorial in the center of Liverpool, see previous image the other a Flanders' field with poppies
thanx, M, (*_*)

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