Today on Monday Mysteries I have a hodgepodge of photos related to a variety seasonally-themed mysteries. Continue reading
Monday Mysteries: The tree that wasn’t there and other photos
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Food on Fridays: Foraging for Festival Foods
Today on Food on Fridays we are in Verona on a quest to find some of our favorite Santa Lucia Festival foods. Continue reading
Seasons Greetings from Tübingen!
To all our friends and family, wherever you are and whatever holiday you celebrate, Happy Holidays! Continue reading
Stop Lights and Silver Bells
I started piano lessons the summer I was 8 years old, and I remember that by Christmas that first year, I was able to pick out the song Little Drummer Boy to be able to play something Christmas-y on the piano. I think it was the following year that someone — probably my parents — gave me a book of popular Christmas songs. The first one from that book I learned to play was the song Silver Bells. Continue reading
Unexpected Street Scenes
So I titled today’s post to parallel the title of yesterday’s “unexpected sweep scenes” post. But truly, perhaps a better title would probably be “unexpectedly seen in the street”, since that would more accurately describe the two photos today. Continue reading
Monday Mysteries: Unexpected Sweep Scenes
Today on Monday Mysteries we consider a few photos of Sweep Scenes. Unlike standard street scenes, these photos are slightly mysterious, since they are clearly not anything you’d see in real life, even though the contents of the photos have not been altered in any way after the fact of the photo being taken. Continue reading
And they’re off … again
This coming Saturday is December 13th, and that’s Santa Lucia Day in Verona. The big holiday there this time of year is actually not Christmas, but Santa Lucia Day. Santa Lucia brings the kids gifts, just like Santa Claus does in other parts of the world on Christmas Day. They have a big market for the Santa Lucia festival in Verona every year. If you want to see what it looks like, check out the Verona live webcams on this website. The Santa Lucia festival market will be up through Saturday. Continue reading
Of paperwork and puddles
We’ve only been back from England since Sunday night, but so far this week has been one crazy paperwork thing to take care of after another. Continue reading
Monday Mysteries: The Chocolate Pot that wasn’t
Today on Monday Mysteries we take a quick look at something that we encountered last week: a Chocolate Pot that wasn’t either chocolate or a “pot”.
Monday Mystery: The Missing Mystery
I forgot to mention on Friday that the blog will be on hiatus all this week (through December 5th). So since I forgot to mention that, you probably got here expecting a regular post. Sorry about that!
As a small reward for checking in today, Continue reading