Open Tuinen Dagen

Fridays with P continue to be the best.  My sweet girl is always up for anything, and makes everything exponentially more fun.  This past Friday we hit about 15 of the 27 gardens on the Open Garden Days tour.  This years tour was focused on the gardens of the Canal Streets.   P and I went by bike, which was super easy since it is our neighborhood.  Another fun option, which many people did, was to hire a boat to take you house to house along the canals.  Whatever your method of transport, it was pretty spectacular.  Here are a few photos I snapped, they don't do it justice.  Most of these are from private homes...my faves were the ones that required us to tramp through the homes to get to the gardens.

Please note the clawfoot tub in the upper right on the photo below...it overlooked a fab garden.  Love...

The next two shots are from the Mayors house.  

Many of the gardens, like the one below, had sweet little "garden houses" in the back of the garden...usually set up as tea rooms, guest quarters or artist studios.

Next year's tour is June 20, 21, 22.  In case anyone out there was looking for a reason/date to plan their visit.