Today I bought a new camera.
So, soon I shall be blogging again.
Stand-by!
It is a grogeous spring in Montana.
I wish I could somehow capture the smell of the spring air and share that with you!
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
update
I assume that most of you that visit this blog do so for the fotos; since I typically don't write much and because the fotos are the overall theme of the blog. I started this to share the images of my days and some bits of inspiration I find along my path.
I have become aware since I embarked my Europe adventure that more people are looking, following along.
That realization is a wee bit intimidating and fun by the same token. It is humbling to become aware that so many people are interested.
I have had many inquiries and worried e-mails since I have been absent.
Here is the scoop on the absence: Mike and I flew to Barcelona and I was promptly liberated of my handbag full of the comforts of home for me, in essence, my security blanket. My travel essentials. My ipad, camera, wallet, passport, journals, knitting, all sorts of things that kept me occupied.
The items that helped pass the time on busses, trains, planes, evenings in hostesl, hotels, guestrooms and ALL the images gathered from the trip.
This event happened Easter weekend, which is a huge holiday in Spain, so everything was shut down and we had to wait till Tuesday for the consulate to open so that I could get a passport to travel home.
Thankfully my friend, Randy, prompted me to scan all my documents and I promted Mike to do so as well, so that was covered. I had copies of everything and that made the experience much better.
That didn't alleviate the feeling that we were hostages in Barcelona, a city we hadn't intended to spend much, if any, time in. Now we know it well. We may have canvased the entire thing! Well, we didn't visit the Olympic Park, but I think that is it! We are thoroughly informed of our completely inadequate Spanish skills!
I got a temp. passport and the trip home was happily uneventful.
I mourn the loss of the bag and its contents, but have even mostly moved past that now too.
I hadn't checked e-mails since we got home to Montana, and I got an opportunity to do so today.
There were two e-mails from the Barcelona Police, in spanish. I translated them using google AND, they have my bag and my passport!!! They didn't mention anything other than that.
So tonight I stay up late and call the police and the consulate and facilitate the return of my stolen bag!
Seems like a miracle to me!
Send out those good vibes that I get everything back! Some people think I am crazy to even HOPE, but I think HOPE is powerful! The fact that they even have my bag is amazing!
So standby for all the gorgeous Holland fotos! (Alas, there are no fotos of Barcelona, and it was a fotographers dream!)
I have become aware since I embarked my Europe adventure that more people are looking, following along.
That realization is a wee bit intimidating and fun by the same token. It is humbling to become aware that so many people are interested.
I have had many inquiries and worried e-mails since I have been absent.
Here is the scoop on the absence: Mike and I flew to Barcelona and I was promptly liberated of my handbag full of the comforts of home for me, in essence, my security blanket. My travel essentials. My ipad, camera, wallet, passport, journals, knitting, all sorts of things that kept me occupied.
The items that helped pass the time on busses, trains, planes, evenings in hostesl, hotels, guestrooms and ALL the images gathered from the trip.
This event happened Easter weekend, which is a huge holiday in Spain, so everything was shut down and we had to wait till Tuesday for the consulate to open so that I could get a passport to travel home.
Thankfully my friend, Randy, prompted me to scan all my documents and I promted Mike to do so as well, so that was covered. I had copies of everything and that made the experience much better.
That didn't alleviate the feeling that we were hostages in Barcelona, a city we hadn't intended to spend much, if any, time in. Now we know it well. We may have canvased the entire thing! Well, we didn't visit the Olympic Park, but I think that is it! We are thoroughly informed of our completely inadequate Spanish skills!
I got a temp. passport and the trip home was happily uneventful.
I mourn the loss of the bag and its contents, but have even mostly moved past that now too.
I hadn't checked e-mails since we got home to Montana, and I got an opportunity to do so today.
There were two e-mails from the Barcelona Police, in spanish. I translated them using google AND, they have my bag and my passport!!! They didn't mention anything other than that.
So tonight I stay up late and call the police and the consulate and facilitate the return of my stolen bag!
Seems like a miracle to me!
Send out those good vibes that I get everything back! Some people think I am crazy to even HOPE, but I think HOPE is powerful! The fact that they even have my bag is amazing!
So standby for all the gorgeous Holland fotos! (Alas, there are no fotos of Barcelona, and it was a fotographers dream!)
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
cycling
Today we embark on a 4 day cycling adventure.
Cycling by day, sleeping on a barge by night.
I am unsure as to whether we will have internet on the barge.
I suppose we could seek it out in cafe's, or we could just drop off the radar for a few days.
Mike is booking our Spain flight as I type.
I think he would have preferred that I had done that in advance, but I was wanting spontaneity.
What if something better came along?
So, we're off!
Cycling by day, sleeping on a barge by night.
I am unsure as to whether we will have internet on the barge.
I suppose we could seek it out in cafe's, or we could just drop off the radar for a few days.
Mike is booking our Spain flight as I type.
I think he would have preferred that I had done that in advance, but I was wanting spontaneity.
What if something better came along?
So, we're off!
Bikes of interest
These carts ( not sure what they are called) seem to be mostly for hauling children, they have benches in them. They are most usually wooden, brown, but this one is special! I love to see them filled with children and groceries!
This one below shows the basic construction without the vessel, you see a lot of them with crates in them. Obviously, this one is front of a cheese shop. (the cheese is fake! I checked because I wanted to see how heavy that much cheese would be).
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Canal Shots
Each side of the bridge.
We have been fascinated by these boats. They are so big and the canals small in comparison. Here was a particularly narrow channel.
This is difficult to really see by the foto, but this building is built on an apparent bend in the channel.
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More random art
It was getting dark when I found this guy coming from out of a cement abutment on a drawbridge tower.
This is a bridge upright near a fire station.
This is a little playground in a grassy meridian.
Some great building art.
Rembrandt statue in Rembrandt Square.
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Bike Man!
For a city with reportedly more bikes than people, we noted that there were very few bike shops for sales or repairs. So we were delighted to find this fun place tucked down a narrow alley.
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