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Flowering

The bed Lydia and me seeded with wild flowers last Sunday. What you see growing is of course the weeds.
Almond flowers. Will enjoy these as long as they grow.
A coltsfoot spreading seeds
Another seeding coltsfoot
Not sure which tree this is, the apple? the pear? the cherry? I think it is the cherry!
Three daisies
A dandelion?
Three doves enjoying the sunshine
A big snail. I also saw the first butterfly, a cabbage white. And the first humblebee of the year.
A prunus?
Wild apple tree
Magnolia Stellata
A weeded branch in my house flowering like mad 🙂
Published on April 11, 2018 at 6:00 by
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Gevuld speculaas

Today i went for gevuld speculaas. This is almond spice between two layers of speculaas. Speculaas is a spiced cookie dough. It might seem a bit like ginger biscuit, but there are more spices in it: pepper, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, cardamom and nutmeg.
I went for the filled with almond paste version. One my alltime favourite cookie.
The coukie dough is like a short crust pastry.
Last Friday i got the flour and spices. It was dumpster dived.
At the back there are a couple of recipes for speculaas.
The almond past goes on top of the first layer of speculaas. On top is the final speculaas. Yummy!
A whisked egg is spread on top.
A cross section. I have way too much. Tomorrow i will bring most of it to the garden to share.
Published on April 10, 2018 at 6:00 by
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Springtime

Julien and Diamela are weeding
So are Sanne and Lydia
Ronald is harvesting some leek
Young broadbean
Blackthorn in bloom
Almond flowers, can't resist adding a few more photographs
*swoon*
*sigh*
Daffodils, no idea how these got here
This daffodil we planted ourselves
Daniël and Gaay working on the greenhouse
Young leaves
More young leaves
White flowers, the blackthorn again?
I love spring
Adore it even!
Yep
Hilde mowing Park Pompenburg
Lydia weeding
Julien smiling 🙂

I completely forgot to make photos of the new bloom bed i seeded in today together with Lydia. I’ll make photos once the seeds start sprouting.

Published on April 9, 2018 at 6:00 by
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Growing up

One of the many times i threw the I Ching, many years ago, i got the sign The Wanderer. I remember thinking, feeling, ‘this is right’. A good meaningful sign for me. For my life. Wandering. Not out and about. Not traveling. But wandering from person to person. From group to group. Not something i want to do, not something i do with intention. Something that happens to me.

The last group i fell into is the gardening group.

I love the garden. I love being in there. I love photographing it. Filming it. Working in it.

I love the people working in the garden. We talk. About our current society. About capitalism. About Marx. About the garden. About anarchy. About Mars. Terra forming Mars. Moving to Mars. No!!

But i do know a large part of me isn’t in the garden. A large part is here, in ellenpronk.com, in lfs.nl. In my photos, my movies, my drawings, my thoughts.

I am still growing up. I do feel progress. I am getting a bit more control over myself. But i still make many mistakes, many ill judgements. Learning every single day. Thinking about the day. Figuring out what to do next. Make my excuses when i need to.

I have this temporary space. A bit of money and a place to live. I am already working on a new movie. It will be a month or two i think before it is finished.

I do believe in myself. I do trust myself.

If i felt a shred of doubt, it would be over. Done for. I don’t feel that.

Salute!

Published on April 5, 2018 at 6:00 by
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Thoughts

No i won’t share any. I’m simply thinking. About the hails falling early this afternoon. Sitting in the sunshine drinking tea in a break of the Pompenburg afternoon. Looking at the little white dog. And many more things.

That i forgot to get four packets of pea pods yesterday. I read the email too quick. Stupid. I only got one packet. Hmmm.

Thinking about me. My current state. I need to work! Work hard! Spring is starting. Filming. I am thinking about what i will make, what music i will use. I need to watch my old clips again. I need to learn Final Cut Pro. So i don’t think i’m too late.

I hope you will enjoy the upcoming Eastern weekend.

Salute!

Published on March 30, 2018 at 6:00 by
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Vreeken

Today, Wednesday, i went to Dordrecht to the shop Vreeken.

I got a few seeds for flowers. Two different sorts of calendula, one packet for edible flowers and one with many wild flowers.

My main goal was to buy a good gardening book. I asked the people in the garden and the book Handboek Ecologisch Tuinieren (Handbook Ecological Gardening) was recommended. The bible! It is a hefty book and i haven’t read a line, but it sure does feel like a good book to have and learn from.

I took the train on my way there and i went back on the boat, with the Waterbus. It was raining the whole time. But still, it was good sitting on the boat and watching all the factories and houses on the Merwede. Lovely.

Published on March 29, 2018 at 6:00 by
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