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As promised earlier, today I'll resume posting images from my 'Kinderdijk' series.

Kinderdijk is a village in the province of South Holland, The Netherlands. It's one of some other places in The Nerlands (like Zaandam) which is world-famous for its traditional windmills. Some additional Wikipedia information can be found by checking-out THIS LINK.

The, in this series, depicted windmills are all traditonal watermills. Think that some explanation may be helpful to you: their function is not to grain corn etc., but only to keep the polder dry (polder is the Dutch word for a tract of land below sea level, reclaimed from the sea, and enclosed by embankments known as dikes). Therefore each mill has both a somewhat submerged 'entrance' and 'exit' for water, the one as a waterinlet for water in the polder towards the mill (on one side of the mill) and the other one as an wateroutlet for water from the mill towards a canal (on the other side of the mill). When the watermill is in operation (wind will be required, of course), it turns a kind of screw inside the mill. The srew acts like a kind of pump in order to remove the water from the polder into a canal. Therefore the water in the canal has a higher level than the water in the polder, behind the dike. It's a process in stages to get rid of the, people and animals threathening, superfluous water in the polder. This 'chain' is continued until the water finally reaches a river and/or the sea. In more recently constructed polders the traditional windmills are replaced however mostly by electrical pumps.

Hope you do like this image/series. Thank you in advance for your comment.

Edit: please see my additional comment below.