29 October, 2015

Beautiful Leiden

We took a day trip.

No matter what I did, Mum kept showing up in every dangin' photograph

















Piet Mondrian is still alive and well, as you can see:

















This building houses the new office of the Belgium-Netherlands mission of the LDS church.



















Sis. Duncan, Sis. Robison, and a triumph of the photographic art:














Obligatory/bonus! Observe that Mum's eyes are closed, just like Sarah's were when she stood here last April.























Mum is starting to show up in these photos with an almost chilling frequency, reminiscent of the malevolent and ultimately fatal rain coat-clad dwarf in Nicholas Roeg's film version of Daphne Du Maurier's Don't Look Now.

















The windmill in the background of the previous shot is also a windmill museum in real life. Mere picturesqueness gives way to good information, a sense of history and context.

Vertiginous ...





















We took a nice long walk, all through the town.




















A new corner of a very old university:

















This is cool.

















You've got to be joking! Leiden is so pretty that it's almost annoying ...