Perfect Storm

In October 2020 we were racing our bicycles trying to get home before this storm. You need to be lucky to get a view angle like this. The Heineken Brewery Zoeterwoude is on the horizon.

Poplar stands, enormous skies

My friend Francis Devine, from Dublin, gave me the following poem, inspired by this photo of the morning scene behind my house. Thank you so much, Francis! ,  Poplar stands, enormous skiesGhosts of engineering DutchmenEchoing in folk with names likeSnart, Homan, van der ThisAnd, occasionally, van der…