Good morning from a cold but sunny eastern Holland. We had a frost overnight, which is lifting only slowly. The sun is out, although high cloud is moving up from the west to obscure it later. The walks of the last two days have left me with some sore muscles - not enough exercise apparently.
Avalanches have claimed 13 lives over the weekend. Three people died on Buachaille Etive Mor in the Scottish Highlands, southeast of Fort William. Another ten perished in an avalanche in Turkey; some of those have not yet been recovered from the snow.
Tomorrow is Holocaust Memorial Day, in which the victims of the persecution of Jews and others, deemed to be sub-human by the Nazis, are remembered. 27 January 1945 was the day the Auschwitz / Birkenau concentration camp was liberated. Yesterday, a ceremony was held at a memorial in Amsterdam, attended by some representatives of the Dutch Muslim community. Their presence was hailed as a move towards greater understanding between Muslims and Jews in Holland.
The Shell Gallery
This is the archive of The Shell Gallery blog, which was active between 2008 and 2018. It is dedicated to the memory of my mother, who died in May 2008, and to that of my father, who passed away in August 2022. 
The Watch Tower stands to the north, overlooking the open Heathlands
The Shell Gallery also refers to the island of Vlieland, which has zillions of shells on its beaches.
1 comment:
I did enjoy the pictures. I'd be more than a little sore doing a walk like that one. I'm going to strive to do more when the weather clears up here this year.
'On Ya'-ma
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