Monday, April 6, 2009

Our neighbors in Emst, Holland

This is a typical Dutch house. Brick with a perfectly manacured lawn and beautiful flower gardens.
Most of the houses have huge windows that are kept open with no screens when the weather is nice.
No cars up on blocks, no weeds......Toto, we're not in the South anymore!

Where's Santa? This guy lives in a local park with his other buddies. They loved peppermints.

There seems to be a park in every neighborhood with all types of animals for the kids to feed and pet. Big kids too!


Springtime in Holland means lambs. They are everywhere you turn. I think there are more sheep than people in Emst. These guys are only a day or two old...still a bit wobbly.



HUGE! Dutch draft horse. They still use horses to pull many farm wagons and carts in this area.




The cows in Holland stay in the barn during most of the winter months and when the ground is very wet, as not to disturb the grass. The pastures here look like most people's yard in the USA.

This cow seemed as interested in me as I was her. Lovely girl.






1 comment:

April said...

Ahhhh, I finally got a chance to sit down with a quiet house and a cup of coffee to look through your recent posts from Holland :-) I am so happy that you are getting to experience all of this and thank you for carrying me along with you through your photo's!