Tag: water

Main Tap of Holland


① memo 20171118 ~ Main Tap of Holland ~ Right after the border with Germany follows the main ‘tap’ of Holland – where the Rhine river bifurcates into the Waal river and the Pannerden canal (which in turn flows into the ‘Neder-Rhine’ river) , Millingen , Holland

Weeping Weeping Birch


① memo 20171115 ~ Weeping Weeping Birch ~ Last day for this 35-year old dying Weeping Silver Birch looking in the mirror of the groundwater in this freshly dug hole in the earth – waiting for a new tree to come soon – Holland

Polder Flushing


① memo 20171112 ~ Polder Flushing ~ Flushing (once in a while) the ditches and larger waterways of the low-lying polders – water management in the Green Heart of Holland , filmed November 2010

Kritama


① memo 20171010 ~ Kritama ~ Last month on the balcony of tavern ‘Karagatsi’ in the natural port of Damouchari at the rocky Pelion coast , Mrs Kaiti – an imaginative cook – and mother of Apostolos Vainopoulos who runs the tavern – selects ‘Kritama’ – the editable , wild , salt-tolerant , plant with succulent salty leaves that flourishes on the rocky, salt-sprayed cliffs and beaches in Greece. Later Anna served us that simple Kritama salad to taste.

Wet Feet


① memo 20171009 ~ Wet Feet ~ Glasswort ( Salicornia ; dutch ‘Zeekraal’) , salt-tolerant plants (halophytes) on the Green Beach (Groene Strand) west of the village West-Terschelling on the frisian isle Terschelling , in the dutch Wadden Sea

Stryper Salt Marsh


① memo 20171007 ~ Stryper Salt Marsh ~ New land with salt plants (halophytes) – the ‘Stryper’ salt marsh (dutch ‘kwelder’) – in the dutch Wadden Sea at the coast of the village Seeryp on the frisian isle Terschelling