Fly agaric under the birches

The fairy-tale mushroom, right on schedule after a week of rain.

Mushrooms

Shaggy ink caps on the dyke

Here today, black ink tomorrow. You have to be quick with these.

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Puffballs in the moss

Tap one gently and a little cloud of spores comes out.

Mushrooms

Oyster shelves on a fallen beech

A whole staircase of them growing out of one log.

Mushrooms

Saturday at the Albert Cuyp

Stroopwafels made fresh, cheese samples, and far too many people.

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Morning fog over the polder

Cows, poplars and a ditch, all fading into white.

Nature

Cycling to the windmills in the rain

22 km, one flat tyre, zero regrets.

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First herring of the season

With raw onion and a little flag, the proper way.

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