It is another beautiful Spring day. Close to freezing at night but now it has warmed up to close to 70 F.
I went to mass at the St. Martin and Joseph church in Hillegom. Built in 1927. Very attractive Neo-Gothic construction with laminated roof joists, which had to be one of the earliest applications of laminated beams in Europe. Good choir, good sermon, poor attendance, as usual here. I am at the point in my father’s diary where he recounts the churches bursting at the seams at the end of the war. We had a more recent taste of it after 9-11. Is that what it takes??
Yesterday Holland witnessed an American style, slaughter/suicide in the nearby town of Alphen. In my previous blog I reported doing my boat shopping, last Thursday, in Alphen.
Hillegom is the center of the Dutch bulb industry, so I just had to take a few more pictures on a gorgeous day like today.