[Leica] IMG: Southern Friesland

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

Near our home in Little Washington, NC, there is a farm community  
called Terra Ceia. It is the home of a large, old Dutch settlement  
with lots of wonderfully complex family names that, were it not for  
their long-standing history there, would be quite out of place in  
this rural part of America.

Anyway, your pictures of the farmland tell be why they settled in  
Terra Ceia: It looks just like home.

Thanks

ric



On May 19, 2007, at 2:20 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:

>
> These are all from the southern part of Friesland, villages like  
> Stavoren and Hindeloopen. Even though Friesland is not far from  
> Amsterdam (nothing is really far here in the Netherlands), it is a  
> totally different world. It is one of my favourite places for a day  
> trip. Each village is different, and the landscape, although flat  
> and sometimes stark, is beautiful. This is not wilderness; this  
> land is man-made through centuries of fighting the sea. Were it not  
> for the dikes, much of Friesland, which lies below sea level, would  
> be under water.