Harry Potter raps and some amazing pumpkin art

A couple amazing performances today, Daniel Radcliffe rapping the ABCs & some amazing pumpkin art to inspire you for Friday PM (courtesy of Ray Villafane). Heading out soon to the ICA to see their fiber show, then tootling & stitching on tap.

2014-July-08 The Journey Home

Some final shots from in & around Guus' & Hein's house, and a video taken from the bus at Heathrow, giving you a glimpse of the dramatic cloudscape and an idea of what it's like to ride on the "wrong" side of the road. Bad news re the clouds: they signaled a front coming through that kept us trapped at the gate for an hour; the good news: it gave me time to watch three whole movies on the trip to Logan.

Outside Guus' studio door

Ditto

Dutch stilleven

Looking into the living room a.k.a stilleven

Hein's studio with his artwork made of peat

Hein studio window

Studio to patio

Wall text

Heathrow bus

2014.07.07 Europe last day

Final shots from in & around the Mauritshuis, and of Guus & Hein sporting their knitting finery.

Mauritshuis new entry gallery

den Haag, old & new

Mauritshuis exterior

Shopping cart for the new grandchild

Hein en sjaal

Guus en sjaal

2014.07.07 day deux

More shots from the Mauritshuis on my last day in Europe.

Yet another gorgeous window treatment -
this isn't a painting

View from one of the windows

Another curtain detail

Guus in the mirror

The Goldfinch - One of the big draws at the Mauritshuis (back home again after touring while the museum was being renovated

That I was actually able to get this close to The Girl with a Pearl
(Meisje met de parel) tells you how few people were there

Another favorite painter Pieter Saenredam - he really painting
interiors & exteriors of churches

Detail from the above

De Mariaplaats met de Mariakerk te Utrecht

Detail from the above

Silk wallpaper from the renovation

2014.07.07 Mauritshuis day first

Apparently no photos taken on the 6th - so I sadly don't remember what happened that day. :| On the 7th Guus and I went to den Haag to see the newly-reopened Mauritshuis. There were so few people there that, since it had only opened June 28, I don't think many people realized they were opening it on Mondays for the first few months anticipating crowds. The first few shots are from inside Guus' & Hein's lovely house.

From the bedroom to the garden

Front door from the inside

Dutch still life - aka breakfast bouquet

Heading out along van Helsingstraat

The Haag and Mauritshuis

That's Guus with the sweater

The window treatments were works of art in themselves

Art in the mirror