Catching a whiff

I have owned a Victorinox Swiss Army knife for 30 years. I’d wanted one as a teenager — I would see an animated display of a giant one opening, closing and spinning around in the shop every time I went to the mall as a I teenager, and I wanted one. I mean, how could you resist all those gadgets in one little gizmo: there was not just a flat-head screwdriver, but also a Phillips head one! A can opener! Tiny scissors! Tweezers! A corkscrew! And more! Continue reading

A Foggy “Night”

I just realized I’d never written a third post I’d planned about the fog we wandered around in last month. So far, you’ve seen the fog hanging over Tübingen that day, as well as the patches of blue mixed with fog in spots. But if those photos could be described as showing a foggy day, the photos in today’s gallery seem to show a foggy night, even though they were taken in the middle of the same day as the photos in those other two posts. Continue reading