What a great colour combination, these blue linen trousers with a lime shirt. Blue and yellow is always good (lime is a sort of yellow, right?). I was a bit puzzled about which shoes to wear with it; I chose these green ones from my vast collection of shoes (haha). They have a little heel and the trousers are quite long, they echo the green of the necklace and yellow + blue = green. Silver bag as that goes with nearly everything and doesn’t make the outfit matchy matchy.

Marita and I met for a coffee on a terrace at the Spaarne canal in Haarlem, where an old bridge often opens for boats during summer. Such a good sight to see.  

Below: Photos of the bridge turning open. I have shown them before in another post.

Below: Marita was wearing stunning earrings. She had a pretty bow in her hair, matching her vest, very elegant.

Below: Marita head-to-toe. Her jacket is from kpa.haarlem. I could have bought it too.

Below: We were on the other side of the Spaarne canal than we usually are. The weather was strange; cloudy but warm and sometimes a few drops of rain (only a few).

Below: Walking past the beautiful old houses, I spotted this magnificent door. You know how much I love doors.

Below: And I love cats. This one performed for us.

Below: I tried to stand on this little stone bench. Turned out not to be sturdy. It wobbled.

Below: I settled for this pose.
The linen trousers are a great model on me, with the pleats structured on the side. They create the hips I haven’t got. The lime shirt is the one I bought to wear under the blue cardigan, just showing an inch at the top. However, it was very long and very oversized; couldn’t style it at all. I had the tailor shorten it and take it in at the sides. The necklace is an old one from my chunky necklace collection.

Below: Close-up of the necklace, bracelet and earrings.

Below: The shoes.

Below: We were near the Teylers Museum which is fantastic. Here are links to two posts I did at that museum: the post with the fuchsia maxi skirt and the one with the barrel jeans and green jumper.

Below: The bench photo with a canal, boats and houses behind me.

Below: As Marita was walking in front of me, I caught her back and the ribbon, although the ribbon was skewed by that point.

Below: Near Teyler’s Museum is a small drawbridge.

Below: This is what the bridge looks like from the other side. The big foot statue on the left refers to the Roman God Mercurius (= Hermes to the Greek).

Below: I thought you might appreciate a closer look at the houses on the other side of the canal though I did show them in a previous post.

Below: This is the modern pair of houses, built next to the above ones. They depict a sailing ship.

Below: On my way back home, I saw this little statue in a window. Thought it was neat.

What happened in my life this week

First a little garden update. Below three photos of the garden, taken on the 22nd of July.

Thursday evening, I had another photo/camera event, this time in my own town, photographing things that strike you in a certain area of Haarlem, called Vijfhoek (Five corners).

Below: The three photos I chose to send in. Of course, I took a lot of photos of houses and house details, but I really love the one of the two men sitting in front of their house, going through their work schedule for the next day. I had a lovely chat with them. And later on I had a chat with two other gentlemen who invited me into their home and garden when they saw me photographing their house. Honestly, a camera is like a dog, it gets you to socialize with people.

Below: I saw Marianne again, coffee and a chat and a stupid photo haha.

Below: I wore this outfit, which was on the blog in this post, but at the time I tied it in a bow and a bow is not a good thing on my belly. This way below is much better.

Below: Marianne’s son walked in with groceries, wearing this T-shirt which he bought on his holiday in Spain. Marianne is fluent in Spanish, but even I could make out what it said: “No need for internet. My mother knows everything.” Hahaha.

After visiting Marianne I had to go downtown Haarlem and stopped at kpa.haarlem. This time I got out without falling for something.
There was a lovely lady in the shop with her pretty daughter and we got on well. I thought she looked so good, I had to photographed her for you (below).

Below: And I ran into these 2 young men and told them, “This is how it is done!” They looked fantastic. Turned out they work at Suit Supply, a shop in men’s clothes haha.

Greetje