Windmill 'Windlust', Goudswaard

'Goud' sounds like 'gowd' and means 'gold'.
'Waard' is a term connected to areas along the dike where people are allowed, or not allowed, to construct buildings.
Every time the sun broke through the clouds and shone on the mill, it looked like it had a golden sheen on it, and maybe it was built so that it would have that effect because of the name of the village.  While I was shooting, heavy clouds came and went, and I sometimes had to wait till they had floated by so that my subject could be better illuminated.

Goudswaard was yet another Plan B that had to be activated because the windmill at Plan A was facing the wrong direction and I would have had to circle around to another dike to shoot it, which would have been just as frustrating as a couple of houses were blocking the view.  I"ll see if it will be doable after the summer when hopefully the miller will have turned it around to face the road.  The area is a maze of polders and dikes with narrow roads.  'Windlust' was built around 1694 so I guess it is really worth its weight in gold, standing high on the dike, guarding the village, which, as you can see, is about 4 meters lower.  As long as the dikes hold, everything on the right will stay dry.

A very late hunt -- left the house at 16.00+, after a 2-hour nap.  Before that, some housework and some research.  The research continued after dinner, while AW was having his Monday bridge online.