February 14 2009 a cute little puppy was born: Hocks (or as she's known to her kennel: Isis).
April 10 2009 she moved in with my sister and my brother-in-law.

She's adorable and playful and she still has to learn quite a few things!

Today I spent some time with her as my sister was visiting our grandmother (no dogs allowed!). She obviously was a bit confused, missing my sister, but we got along well. A few scrapes and bruises on my arms (war wounds?), but no harm done. I'll be Hocks-sitting again this Saturday, hopefully I'll be able to take some more photos!.

For now, enjoy the whole Hocks Set @ flickr.

With an early Friday break for my Easter weekend, I visited the Keukenhof together with friends Ingrid and Bjorn.

As the three of us (well, some more than others) are quite keen photographers, we were armed with batteries, memory cards and tripods (mine's a monopod), and of course our cameras.

An approximate 450 photos later (my count), we went our way again and headed home. The Keukenhof by now was a very crowded place and I cannot blame the other visitors. The weather was gorgeously hot and the tulips (and other bulbs) were blooming for our enjoyment!

By the next day I had checked and rechecked my photos, of which about 40 made the cut to be placed on flickr: Keukenhof April 10 @ flickr

[related post: Major photo update]

This past weekend I spent in Frankfurt, visiting Katie and joining Judy&Stan for a brief weekend of fun and touristic outings.

As I was lucky to have a Canon 300D with me (and about 6GB of memory cards), I took loads of photos. Tonight (and last night) I downloaded and uploaded the photos to my flickr account, and you can find the best of the approximately 600 photos I took right here: Frankfurt@flickr.

Enjoy!

(and thanks to Katie and Frank for showing us Frankfurt and the Rhine!)

The Loreley (Rhine river)

The Liebfrauenkirche in Oberwesel

Schloß Schönburg

Hildegard von Bingen

A character from 'Der Struwwelpeter'

The Bull at the Exchange

Seems to have the beginning of a running theme here:

http://twitpic.com/1q2uo

and

http://flickr.com/photos/mokblog/3325647813/

[totally forgot to make links clickable]

 ... by others!

Wikipedia > Louis Couperus
Library Thing
: from the original

Schmap Frankfurt > Park & Gardens > Botanical Gardens
: from the original

The things you find on internet!

(though I have to admit, the one on Wikipedia was placed there by myself: totally forgot that!)

While I have been out of a 'blogging' mood, I have been having fun with my camera.

From April 30 till May 5, Katrin and Jana joined me for a short vacation break in the Hague. Together we visited the center of town (of course, as it's only a short walk away), the Keukenhof, the beach at Scheveningen (bordered between the North Sea and the Hague) (try to pronounce it now, Jana!) and Park Clingendael (also situated in the Hague).

You can find all the pictures on my flickr page (link). For the individual pages, go to:

• Keukenhof May 2, 2008
• Scheveningen Beach May 3, 2008
• Park Clingendael, and its Japanese Garden May 4, 2008

I also spent Mother's Day/Pentecoste with my family at the beach, this time at Kijkduin Beach May 11, 2008.

Photo Friday - Misty

Happy New Year!
May 2008 bring you all you want!

Took a photo of an odd looking plant this weekend.

Anyone know what kind of plant this might be?

[more on its flickr page]

Zo ik ièts ben, ben ik dus geen Hagenaar.

Beelden van Fernando Botero op het Lange Voorhout in Den Haag (en dan ook voor de liefhebber wat foto's van Louis Couperus - wel Hagenaar!)

[Fernando Botero set @ flickr]