Consider the following photo:
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A glimpse of a tree
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Orange on the side
I took the following photo the other day while wandering around Tübingen after one of our periodic rain “stormlets”:
Lessons Learned
One day last week, as I was home in the late afternoon, I glanced out the window and discovered that the weather had turned. It was pouring rain. Since it had been a sunny day before that, Chris had set off to work in the morning without an umbrella. So, I decided to dash out to bring him an umbrella – it was a true downpour at that moment. After giving him a quick call, I shoved my wallet and my cell phone into the pockets of my rain jacket, grabbed an umbrella and headed out the door of our 2nd floor apartment. Continue reading
Proper Pronuciation
Today is the last day of my current intensive class (B2.1 level, for those of you keeping track), which means that I should have had a test today. However, I decided to skip the test this go ’round, the better to play tour guide to Stan and Judie, who arrived yesterday. Continue reading
A Tree is a Tree
Or maybe it’s one of many trees. Continue reading
Spring Swan
A month ago I snapped a colorful swan photo. Continue reading
Snooker Loopy
I’m sure I don’t need to remind you that the World Championship of Snooker are currently underway in England.
A Tree at Sunset
We were waiting at a stoplight before crossing a street here in Tübingen, when all of a sudden a tree and its sunlit backdrop caught my eye. Continue reading
Time Stands Still in Barcelona
So I like clocks, I like clouds, and I like to experiment with my photos on my computer. It’s rare, though, that I experiment by darkening just one part of the photo while lightning another part. However, the clouds and the clock seemed to cry out for that kind of treatment when I viewed my original photo of a clock in Barcelona. Continue reading
A Visit to Great Uncle Rob’s
In the 11th century there was a noble family named Burdet from Cullei in Normandy, France. Like many noble Norman families, they were adventurers — after all, they were descendants of the Norsemen, the Vikings. Continue reading