Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam

@Linerberry: Always raise your head! :-)

@Ana Lúcia: Cheers, Ana Lúcia!

@akarui: Interestingly their crowns were not as dense as they ought to be; probably the ground is too wet for broadleafs; conifers were a rarity (except for a few specimen in the botanical garden).

@Tracey: I think so, but, as I have written in another post, the residences of many people we could see in the evening due to missing curtains, were furnished in a way we only knew from expensive furnishing catalogues. We felt like poor German relatives visiting their rich family members! So the beauty reaches from outside into their private chambers.
At least in Amsterdam, so we learnt, there is a very wealthy and self-confident social stratum, living in wonderful houses. This is not necessarily true for the rest of the Netherlands.

@Steven: There is a Monet painting showing an identical view. :-)

@MARIANA: The best thing is, you don't have to walk too far to get a sight like this. Or to see crooked buildings. Or something else interesting. :-)

@Ronnie 2¢: Talking about cars, we were really surprised about the pure air were breathing there! I wonder if this was also the case when the effluvia of horse dung were wafting through the canal streets... :-)

@Ted: I'll give you another one tomorrow. :-)

@Curly: Thanks, Curly! If it had been up to me, I had a blue sky with some nice little clouds there. But 'white sky' is my second name! :-)

@Philip: That's funny, as my wife says my photos are too red and too saturated. :-) I like to add an analogue touch to my images (where appropriate; not in my plant shots), but in Amsterdam we had indeed to deal with bad weather, poor light, and the many dark red and grey buildings. My camera is absolutely innocent and if there are any flaws it's due to my imperfection. :-)

@Evelyne Dubos: Thought I just had to pay tribute to good ol' Monet. :-)

@JoeB: It's a small country! :-)

@dj.tigersprout: You had them! (When NY still was Nieuw Amsterdam...)

@Twelvebit: I never ever delete comments here! Maybe you commented on a similar shots (there are so many Baroque churches here, sometimes even I'm losing track! :-)

@António Pires: Thanks so much, António!