Travelling: Blue Sky & Endless summers France-Seen through my Windows....

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Blue sunny skies in the Dordogne

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Seen Through my Windows, in France...
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Above again a small impression from houses (windows) in France:

"Here you see some typical windows we saw in France", we were renting "gites" and its interesting to stay a while in houses build around the year 1875 or older.... Here you see the old brick stone-houses with sometimes orange- or otherwise yellow-stone-walls from 60cm (wide?)thick. The stones are very rare and mostly used for building houses in passed times. -they 'grow'in the mountains..., so why not use them for buildings houses? - This houses are very wellmade, according to the differing in weather during the summer or winter: in the summer, the stones keep the cold INside the houseand the hot OUTside, and for winters its handy to keep the cold OUTside the houses of course.....
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Its impressive to see how France overall is: France is filled with beautiful nature, and nót to forget, enough space for nature-animals and humans, its a miracle how different France is from other countries in Europe: -with much space and nature- when you compare that with Holland - with sometimes too many buildings, people and buildings are packed together sometimes.

But both countries, France and Holland have their own beauty and charme!

I Hope you enjoy watching through some windows in France, soon I show more of what we saw while travelling around in France.

Enjoy your weekend:)

And the sun!

Thank your for your comments

..."Trojan Horses" ..... + last news

JoAnn joins Tuesdays: MY WORLD ,<>wednesday: ABC WEDNESDAY - and Fridays: SKYWATCH Friday

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.."About a HORSE"..named... ,

"TROJAN... What? " Trojan Horses? ..

Better be carefull.

SKY WATCHING Horse? " Horses are Fantastic & nobel animals, I love them"... The above "photo " is how I really feel about Horses....

"No "JoAnn-D-Eyes" is not joking here, "JOKE " really was my name in my childhood that maybe is a "Joke" , In English it has another meaning..... ...

My ideal Horses.... A true happened story...

When I was a child, I used to ride (and brush) Horses after schooltime -instead of making my home work- Me and my female little schoolfriend went from The Hague/Monster of course by horse, to Kijkduin or to the Kurhauss at Scheveningen beach. That were great times! In all kinds of weather we enjoyed being with the horses....We loved to feed them with carrots or other foods.

Also a true happened story.....

BAD TROJAN " Horses" on internet, what do they do and why?

A TROJAN "HORSE" is knowing also as an BAD VIRUS internet infection....This TROJAN HORSE infected all my PC's in a home network ( never connect PC's this way!) This Virus is disable your PC-System , I have no working PC's anymore , they are all at the computer-doctor for a repair, when possible but there is a small change, maybe....! Thats still the question...... untll that is sure I cannot upload often photo's on my blog. Sorry.

I am not happy at all with this kind of Trojan Horses. My MC AFEE Firewall was not strong enough, also my PC C-cleaner didn't do its work.

Since March 19Th until Nowaday.. April 6th : a TROJAN HORSES virus infected my PC's, problem is still NOT solved and will take another period of time...

"JoAnn's- D- Eyes"

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Wishing you a Creative day-week- and weekend\Thank you for your advice and comments!

IOS and JoAnn are wishing you a Happy NEW YEAR !

For all the Faithfull BLOG FRIENDS , YOU BLOGVISITER

And to all BLOG-TEAMs from :

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SKYWATCH MYWORLD

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JoAnn's-D-Eyes (and her dog IOS) are wishing

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A HAPPY NEW YEAR and a creative 2009!!

Happy NEW YEAR !

From dog IOS and her Bear

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All above photo's are made by (c) JoAnnWalraven

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It was last year and it will be this year a joy to join the above theme blogs from friday) SKYWATCH, (monday) MY WORLD and ABC Wednesday every week. I loved looking at YOUR photo-blogs all over the world with very interesting and creative photography. JoAnn's D Eyes is Thanking YOU for visiting her blog, the photo's on this blog are publiced for YOU dear blogvisiters:)

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YOU made it last year and will make it this year, interesting to join the blog-world. THANK YOU very much!
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A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

for JoAnn is that I make many many photo's to show YOU here on this blog

and:

I hope to VISIT your creative blogs many times this year!

It was a pleasure to visit your blog and I am looking forewards to see-visit your blog the coming year and to learn from your culture, and your fantastic photograpy.

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Thank You so much for your visits, your interest and your very nice comments!
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FRIDAY_Sky and Cirque-du-soleil

WELCOME AT JOANN'S SKY-WATCH FRIDAY

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Note: next week I 'm in hospital for a surgery,thats why I 'll be gone & why I will not be able to blog for a while.

Above : Before the SHOW of CIRQUE_DU_SOLEIL named: "VAREKA"

"Its almost dark outside the sky is half blue, half dark....

The show is always played in their own Cirque-Tent...

This show was in AMSTERDAM

Above Left+Right: Inside the tent of CIRQUE-DU-SOLEIL, you can buy all souvenirs like a CD, Books, Masks , Mugs, Hats, T-Shirts, whatever you like to play your own Cirque-act :) maybe you have an artist-talent also?

Above: The Show tent by Night -SKY

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Under: Enjoy the Mask's of the artist from "Cirque-du-soleil"

This mask's were also for sale before and after the show, but making some photograps was a bit cheaper because (wow) they were so expensive!...

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ENJOY looking at 'Cirque-Du-Soleil' seen Trough JoAnn's camera-eyes....

And? Did you enjoy the SHOW???
HAPPY SKYWATCH FRIDAY
JOANN Is wishing you a good weekend,

I hope to see you back after a while...

......Don't forget to ENJOY the BLUE sky:)!!!

Note: next week I 'm in hospital for a surgery,thats why I 'll be gone & why I will not be able to blog for a while

Belgie:Church in Brussel

Above: Wonderfull glasswindows like Churches mostly have but this were fantastic!

Under: left the statue of Maria/Right Better be silent!!!

Under: and a slideshow to get the impression a bit better impression of the Church

As you can see: More of our travel in Belgium. in BRUSSEL we saw this fantastic Gothic CHURCH with great burned glas windows, I hope you enjoy watching...

"L"=LEAVE for holiday, ABC

Welcome at ABC WEDNESDAY
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I show here :L = L eaving , L eaves & L euven (village)

L for Leaving, On the Above photo, I show you HOW we Leave (?) . Yes we leave for a short sunny break, at least we hope the sun will travel with us to where we go.....

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L at bottom you see a Leaves slideshow, from all seasons : spring-autum, winter and summer, a show about all the beautiful coloured leaves in nature, Enjoy watching!

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We are leaving for a short trip to Louvain/ Leuven (<--- click to see map) a small beautiful village in Belgium, with many old historical buildings and little shops, restaurants . Just a nice place wto visit., Enjoy yourself with looking at my collected photo's in this above slideshow

Thank you so much for visiting my blog:)

Comments are welcome,

We will be back after the weekend.

C = Carnaval & Cows - on ABC Wednesday

A-B-C- WEDNESDAY :)

Today's C = for CARNAVAL & COWS

Under: Parades for Carnaval- above: Carnaval-lights by night,

Onder:De Parade voor Carnaval overdag, Boven Carnaval lichtshow 's-avonds.

'C ' for Carnaval, most celebrated in the SOUTH of Holland,

in the provincie LIMBURG.

Carnaval , het beste kun je voor crnaval in LIMBURG zijn, Carnaval is ook een beetje vergelijkbaar met het Amerikaanse HALOWEEN, het grappige en gezellige, dat denk ik. Vindt jij/U dat ook?

Under: Thats how your (USA) HALOWEEN looks-like right? ... Don you foreign and oversea's blogreaders maybe also think...., that Carnaval is a bit the same: A Happy and Funny celebration too? That Carnaval is abit like like Haloween? I do!:)

Last weekend it was CARNAVAL in Holland and surrounded close countries. Everywhere were lots of funny people, fantastic BIG parades and dressed up people. We were celebrating Carnaval . Carnaval is also 40 days ahead of the Easter celebration.... All celebrating CITIES changed their names for 1 day in FUNNY names , and a CRANAVAL prince, took over those cities with the CITY-TOWN-KEY.

Wij Nederlanders weten wel wat carnaval is en dat sommige steden zover gaan dat de STADS sleutel wordt overgedragen aan de CARNAVALS PRINS, voor 1 dag hebben sommige steden een andere naam, ter ere van het CARNAVAL, Hieronder wat grapige Carnaval-stadsnamen, zo leuk om te lezen!

(Under following names I cannot translate from Dutch to English, they are all too stupid names hahaha!) For example here are the names: Oeteldonk: 's-Hertogenbosch. Kielegat: Breda. Krabbegat: Bergen op Zoom. Kruikenstad: Tilburg. Lampegat: Eindhoven. Zandhazendurp: Rosmalen. Strienestad: Steenbergen. Tullepetoanestad, WALLEGAT :Naarden hahaha, all very funny names:)

Next C is for C Creative COWS
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This above Creative Cows we saw in several shopwindows, at our trip in November, we went to TOARMINA in the south of Italy (Sicily) . So I showed this slideshow before in another style in November 2007... But I liked it so much I wanted to show this show with you again... ENJOY!!

Trouwe bloglezers hebben deze Creatieve Koeien al eerder gezien, toen we in November naar ZUIDItalie gingen, stonden deze koeien in de etalages daar. Ik wilde ze nog eenmaal laten zien, ze zijn echt kunstzinnig en mooi om te zien.

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B.b.four Happy Birdhouses

A B C WEDNESDAY

There is a birds forest in VALKENVEEN near my house on walking distance. I walk everywhere with my dog and when I walked there and I just looked up.... I saw this 4 creative birdshouses , all painted in different HAPPY colours... Vlakbij waar ik woon en op loopafstand in VALKENVEEN, is een groot vogelbos, daar loop ik wel eens met mijn hond. Toen ik eens naar boven keek zag ik deze leuke gezellige vogelhuisjes. Allemaal in vrolijke kleueren geverfd..

B. is for this 4 Birdhouses.....

Today its the...B

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Below is my walk in the birds-forest,

Do you join the walk with me?

Beneden is mijn wandeling in het bos, loop je mee?

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Have a wonderfull day everyone!

tjeep tjeep tjeep!!!

Watch the in the "Sky" on Friday, while listening to the song of "Angels",

ENJOY The Skies in Holland-Naarden, they look like this:

GENIET van de lucht in Nederland-Naarden, zo zien ze eruit:

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The song is from my favorite singer "Robbie Williams ,

and is called " ANGELS",

And? Do you believe in Angels?

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I wish you a good and healthy weekend!

Een goed en gezond weekend gewenst!

Nature-music...

When Nature could be expressed by music than.....

Als de natuur in muziek uitgedrukt kon worden dan...

Oakleave covered in frost- Eikenblad onder rijp

Frost on wood- in forest, Vriesrijp op hout-in het bos

Melting frost-Vriesrijp aan het smelten..

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When nature could expressed in music than,

It would be maybe this combination...?

Als de natuur in muziek uitgedrukt zou kunnen worden,

Dan zou het deze kombinatie kunnen zijn...?

"L-O-S-T "?.....

LOST? - Verloren?
Did you loose something? Ben je iets verloren?
This slideshow's starting with RED-ROSES , is made by (c/me) own photograph's about "what people have LOST, loose, or trow away on the streets, illustrated with a song: "Lost" from ANOUK, she is one of my favorite singers, writing her own songs, born in Holland in my birthtown 'The Hague' , listen to the BEAUTY of her words in this great song, I love it!.

Deze slideshow met mijn(c) foto's start met RODE-ROZEN, gaat over "wat mensen zoal weggooien, verliezen op straat", de muziek is gezongen en geschreven door ANOUK, een favoriete zangeres van mij , ze is geboren in mijn geboorte stad in Den Haag. Luister naar de prachtige tekst van het liedje, zelf vind ik het heel mooi!.
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Watch it! and Just enjoy looking & listening at this show ....Veel plezier met kijken & luisteren naar de show.....

My Note: We live 2 minutes from some great forest's, but also in a sports-area with a footbalfield, some tennisyards, a hockeyfield, a swimmingpool, and 2 primary schools with lots of young children...Imagine that many people are coming here. So I am not surprised that some 'Loose' a little bit of their stuffs... Anyhow, Its a great area to live, comfortable and very cosy.. and fantastic for photography..! Wij wonen op 2 minuten van bos-en-hei , maar ook in een sportomgeving met o.a. een voetbalveld, tennisbanen, hockey-velden, een zwembad en 2 lagere scholen....., veel mensen komen hier dus ben ik niet verbaasd als iemand soms hier en daar wat 'verliest' ... Het is beslist een gezellige omgeving en fantastisch om foto's te maken...

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Thanks for watching ! Bedankt voor het kijken!

Useless Christmas-Hat + Drawings

My Christmas-hat must wait a little bit,

Now its useless laying down..

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Mijn Kerstmuts moet nog even wachten.

Ligt nu nog ergens nutteloos...

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Waiting & waiting, 7 more days to goooow!

I'm going to draw some Christmas cards,

Maybe tomorrow some snow?

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Wachten weer wachten, nog 7 dagen te gaan,

Ik ga alvast wat kerstkaarten tekenen ,

De sneeuw komt er misschien wel aan?

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Enjoy the time before Christmas,

Always enjoy every day !

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Geniet van de dagen voor Kerstmis,

Geniet van elke dag!

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Someone was asking me:

"What music do YOU- JoAnn, like with Xmas? "

My answer was: A lot but I like THE MOST, " classical English Hymns choirs " such as the " Kings college Choir", but alsol instrumental-soft Xmas background music, like instrumental music, or some happy XMAS music such as now is playing on this blog....

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What music do YOU like with Christmas?

Paris-streets! Signs and more,

Let me take you by the hand...and
I lead you through the steets of PARIS,
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with some collages and a slide-show.

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Haven't you seen enough yet of beautiful Paris?
Than also watch the slide show below...
En als je nu nog niet genoeg van Parijs hebt gezien,
Kijk dan nog naar de Slideshow hier beneden...
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As I have promised....

MORE PARIS STREETLIFE! This time the streets in PARIS, what I saw on the streets. Join with me this slideshow and I hope you enjoy it! Watch the slideshow and let me know if you liked it!Have a HAPPY WEEKEND!

Zoals ik had beloofd,

Meer Parijs Straatbeelden.Veel Plezier met het bekijken van deze Parijs-straatbeelden, geniet en laat me weten wat je ervan vond. EEN GOED WEEKEND gewenst!

PARIS, Today: 3Th-3 THE LOUVRE :)

3/3 PARIS LOUVRE:
The LAST out of a serie of 3 post's of today!!!

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And for those blogreaders who like to see some more of PARIS and THE LOUVRE, in-outside, here for them a slide-show to see it almost in reality as 'If you were right there'!!!

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Look under this post 2 more post's!!

Enjoy !!!..... and have a good weekend!

This is why I love Holland:)

BACK home in our HOLLAND.

I always LOVE to see the windmills, the wooden shoes, the cheese and the DUTCH 'stroopwafels/sirup waffels'...
We came back from a great Paris trip... look at the other photo's below this one from this week...and another slide-show from food-drinks I saw in Paris.

The weather is great here in HOLLAND , a bit sunny and just a little windy.The PINK Magnolia-tree in our frontgarden is in fully blossom, soon the flowers will popout. I'll show more Paris-pics next week. from the LOUVRE and more , keep watching!
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Weer TERUG in ons Nederland.

Ik hou van de molens, de klompen, kaas, stroopwafels.
Maar in Parijs was het ook prachtig!!! Kijk naar deze week eerdere post's en slideshows over Parijs. Het weer in NEDERLAND is momenteel prima, een zonnetje en wat wind, in onze voortuin staat de magnoliaboom weer in volle bloei, de knoppen zullen wel openen binnenkort. Meer Parijs-foto's volgen, volgende week.
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Have a Happy weekend everyone!

KISS:)

Allen een fijn weekend gewenst!

Kusje:)

Let me take YOU there, I take YOU to PARIS :) enjoy the show and lay back:)

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Above: A show about 'food-drinks' in Paris, Parisian people like lots of different styles of foods, we enjoyed of course the NEW Beaujolais wine 2007, the small tasty cheeses, fruits and vegetables, fish and meat also the chicken and turkeys..... Parisian/French people love cooking and the French cuisine is great and various!! Enjoy the show!:)

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Boven: Een voorstelling van de Parijs -eetgewoonten, met fruit.groenten vlees en de vis . De parijzenaren houden van eten en drinken en de Franse keuken is geweldig lekker en zeer gevarieerd!! Geniet van de show!!:)

"Leaves" 4 YOU

A slide- show...

for YOU,

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Leave's-4-my-leaving to Paris....
To celebrate

-My/JoAnn's Birthday at : November 14Th, YEH!!
- Our 20th anniversary of our relationship YEH!!
But...I'll NOT forget you, my blogfriends:)
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So therefore ,

The show below...

I made esspecially for YOU:),
So that you don't forget about me,

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I'll be back by the end of NEXT weekend,

Take care everybody!!:)
Kisses xxx and love from JoAnn:)
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Italian :) Cow-Art in shopwindow,

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This Cow ART I saw in the Italian Shop windows in Sicily-Taormina, I hope you like to see them, some are really very funny:) ( like the Dog-cow hahah!), and....you know me: 'I LOVE COWS'!! So I wanted to share them ,with you my dear Blogreaders!!!:) HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!
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Deze Koeien-Kunst zag ik in de Italiaanse etalages in Sicilie-Taormina, en als je mij een beetje kent... weet je, HOE GEK ik op KOEIEN ben!! Dus mijn beste Bloglezers, wilde ik dit met jullie delen. EEN PRETTIG WEEKEND gewenst!!!
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