Should have been a very nice Queens Day today, but some lunatic decided to kill 6 people (still 9 injured) and himself. Live on tv 
Found this on YouTube
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
Tompouce (or just a sad day)
Reflection of a painting
It’s a reflecion in an old, somewhat damaged, but still working clock.
Small leak in pond
My submission for the Not Quite Right challenge on DPChallenge.com.
2009-04-29: Place 111 out of 113 (1.8 %) with a score of 3.7005.
Rabbit
And there is one more. (Just getting some fresh air after lunch)
Amaretto
Just a quick improvisation for today. Amaretto cookies with amaretto.
Music on a bike
Spent the whole (nice) afternoon photographing beach volleyball and other activities in Oostzaan, a nearby village. It was the first time the “Ronde van Noordholland”, a yearly cycle course, was visiting this village.
Coconut soup with grilled shrimp
Amuse-bouche
Ingredients:
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2 tablespoons oil
1 tea spoon mild curry paste
500 ml chicken broth
200 ml coconut milk
1 lemon, cleaned, skin rasped
8 large shrimps
1 tablespoon coriander, chopped
Recipe
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Heat 1 spoon oil, put the curry paste in and bake until it starts to smell.
Add the chicken broth and coconut milk. Wait until it cooks.,
Add 1 teaspoon of the lemon rasp and boil the soup for 5 minutes.
Put some oil on the shrimps and grill them (3-5 min)
Put the soup in 8 small glasses, put a shrimp on the rim and add some coriander.
Note: lovely taste, but terrible to photograph. Oil going up, curry paste going down and white balls of the coconut milk.
Almost a flower
Pruned (a part of) my hedge today, so not much time and energy for photography. Here’s a detail which is not pruned. Not sure, but my guess is this is the starting blossom of a blackthorn.
Blue weed
Some weed I picked from my garden. It was late and dark.
Never too old to learn 
So this is a “forget-me-not”, or “vergeet-me-nietje” (in Dutch). I knew such a flower existed, but I didn’t know I had it in my garden.
