Spotting our house
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For each town we’ve lived in, Chris and I have been able to locate a commercially available postcard with an aerial view of the town. The aerial view we look for crucially shows the part of town where we live.
Category Archives: Daily Life
Furniture and a fountain
A few furniture updates today. First, I had to leave my German class early today to come home and wait for der Schrank, which means “closet” in German. I’d actually call it an armoire in English, since it’s freestanding, and the … Continue reading
A Trip to the Library
Over the weekend, Chris and I finally made it to the public library here in Tübingen. We’d been meaning to go and get library cards for a while, but on the weekends, the library in Tübingen is only open on … Continue reading
Colors of Autumn
The overriding color of autumn here in Tübingen is yellow-gold, the current color of most of the leaves, particularly those that have already dropped from the trees.
Another Schwabian “Monte Cristo”
Thanks to our visiting friend, DM, I have a couple of food photos to show today. Thanks, DM, for letting me use them on the blog!
Variations on a autumn tree
On Monday the photo experiments were all about that swan. Today’s set of photo variations is all about a tree.
Modular Window Treatment
We had a friend from California stop by and stay overnight with us last week (great to see you, DM!). Our guest room in this apartment is also our living room, which at the moment is rather lacking in decorations … Continue reading
Friday Followups
Today I wanted to follow-up on a couple of odds and ends, things that won’t make a full blog post on their own.
The tower in view
I promised a couple of weeks ago to get back with more info about that missing tower that I said should have been in the “postcard shot” of the Neckar River in Tübingen.
The church that isn’t
More specifically, the church that isn’t a church.