Today on Monday Mysteries we’re back in Iceland for a look at the story behind a statue I saw everyday on our visit, called Vatnsberinn, “The Water Carrier”. Continue reading
Monday Mysteries: The Water Carrier
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Food on Fridays: Icelandic Foods
Today I want to talk about a few Icelandic foods we encountered on our recent trip to Reykjavik. Continue reading
Forecast today: Sunstorms
Forget that “dark and stormy night” idea. Today in Tübingen it was a bright and stormy afternoon.
Twice.
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Back in Baltimore
I graduated from the Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus which was in the northern part of town, several miles from downtown Baltimore, back in 1984, Continue reading
A bokeh in the piazza
I took these photos of a street lamp in the Piazza Bra in Verona back in June. At the time, I’d just gotten a new camera, so I was experimenting a bit with some different kinds of ways of representing light. Continue reading
Monday Mysteries: The hand with “the stick”
Today on Monday Mysteries we discover the story behind a plaque here in Tübingen that I always referred to as “the hand with the stick.” Continue reading
Food on Fridays: Sarah!
Today on Food on Fridays we encounter one of the popular pastries in Reykjavik.
Hallgrímskirkja: The church at the top of that hill
As we wandered around Reykjavik on the first day of our visit in May, Chris and I glanced down one of the street and caught sight of an ultra modern church that was looming over all the normal-sized buildings that lined the street in front of it. What the heck was that church on the top of that hill? Continue reading
Impressions of the Harpa
The conference that Chris went to in Reykjavik in May was held in the Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center building. It’s rather new, as Continue reading
Cat on a cold rock beach
Today we take another look at the cat I saw on the rocky beach in Reykjavik.