A couple of weekends ago, the weather was really nice, so we got out and explored several places around Limburg.
This is a sale held annually to buy all sorts of mostly fowl - mostly chickens and ducks.
The quintessential chicken.
This tree had several of these huge mushrooms growing on it and they were emitting dust - you can see it piled up on the ground below. I think they're called bracket fungi.
Next we visited Domein Kiewit. We've taken Frazier and Norma Grace here before to see the animals - sheep, goats, rabbits.
Future project?
They have this nice little cafe and we couldn't resist having a drink on the sunny terrace.
We could hear planes so we followed the noise . . .
and found an open house going on at the Kiewit airfield - oldest in Belgium.
Hasselt held an arts fair along the "green boulevard" so we checked it out. The green boulevard is the walking/biking ring that completely circles the city.
We also visited the C-mine in Genk. It's an old coal mine that the city of Genk has restored as a tourist attraction. They offer an underground tour. We decided to wait for a chilly, rainy day for that and not waste this pretty day underground!
Ross had read about this labyrinth at the C-mine.
It is really huge - all the walls are steel. Pretty elaborate undertaking.
Inside the mine-turned-tourist attraction was a photo exhibit of the team members of the Belgian soccer team - The Red Devils.
Fantastic pictures in sepia.
Last, we visited another open house.
It's the home and garden of a local landscape architect.
This pergola is made from sycamore trees trained to run on top of this grid.
I took a lot of pictures of this garden . . . because this garden is amazing and beautiful and for inspiration. I would love to have one similar to this one day!
Dina Deferme - of course we bought her book.
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