Port Towers of Delft
Holland drawings and paintings
De Hoef, watercolor
In de Hoef. We stayed here three days. and this was our view. Well the cow was not always on the bridge. Sometimes there were more of them too.
Bodegraven Port, ink
Bodegraven is a small town on the Old Rhine/Oude Rijn. The Old Rhine is small and lazy, winding its way through the countryside. The old mill is restored and is now a bar serving its own brew, made in a larger facility just down the street. It was supposed to open on a Wednesday after being closed Monday and Tuesday but at midday it was still closed so we were unable to visit. A Peace Corps friend stayed in the town for several days. After seeing my post on Facebook she told me how good the beer was. Darn! Missed it!
Oude Rijn at Zwammerdam (watercolor)
The Old Rhine, Zwammerdam. This leads to a wildlife protected zone. In the other direction you get to Bodegraven, with its lovely harbor.
Windmill on the Vecht, Nederhorst
Koppelpoort (mill), pen and ink
Kopplepoort, Amersfort, pen and ink
Drawings and more from our boating adventures of 2020
Set to the Oscar Navarro’s gorgeous Noe (Noah). Oscar is from Valencia. He was in the audience when I heard him for the first time.
Stare Miasto
An acrylic painting of a section of Warsaw, almost totally destroyed by the Nazis in the uprising of 1944 and beautifully rebuilt. In the area I left blank, on the painting’s left side, actually sits the restored castle, a blank here to symbolize the Nazi destruction of it during the uprising of 1944.
Boat in Kalenburg
Kalenburg is a tiny village that is split by the canal. It is perhaps the most lovely navigable canal section in the country. Geithoorn is overall more charming but its canals are too small for boats in the size range of our 12 meter boat Viking. I write about it here https://garyjkirkpatrick.com/wandering-about-the-netherland-east-part-2/