Monthly Fav. Surprise RR * November 22

The last card of November was one of the 1st to arrive this year. That one, from Taiwan, was sent by Yeh and the others by Edith, Marei and Tracey.

 

Photo by Peter Horree

Windmill card, windmill stamp, windmill sticker and even a windmill in the washi tape. 

Edith noticed that all my Dutch windmills are from the western part of Netherlands, so she sent me this one from Deventer, in the eastern part of the country.

Built in 1863, Bolwerksmolen is a saw mill just across the river outside Deventer’s city centre, close to the Wilhelmina Bridge.  It is a fully working mill.

In 2018 I visited 5 of the 7 UNESCO sites in Bavaria. Wies Pilgrimage Church was one of the two I didn't get to visit. 

This oval Rococo church was designed in the late 1740s by brothers J. B. and Dominikus Zimmermann. It is located at the foot of the Alps, in the municipality of Steingaden in the Weilheim-Schongau district, Bavaria. Due to its remarkable Rococo architecture, the Wieskirche was included on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1983.

 

Erkan Historical Village is a unique place in Taiwan that preserves nearly 300 years of Southern Min culture. Isolated and cut off from the rest of Taiwan for quite some time on Siyu island of Penghu County, the village is a living museum for visitors. Every home is built in traditional red brick Southern Min style (...). - in:https://www.foreignersintaiwan.com

The round things are baskets filled with incense sticks being dried in the sun. Burning the incense, serves to drive away mosquitoes and, as local lore has it, bad spirits.  

 

Ansel Adams

Denali, also known as Mount McKinley, its former official name, is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet (6,190 m) above sea level.

Located in the Alaska Range in the interior of the U.S. state of Alaska, Denali is the centerpiece of Denali National Park and Preserve.