snapshots of my life: week 52

yikes, i almost missed my last post of the year! time to say hello to 2015. here is what the past week looked like...

i spent the 22nd and 23rd in the library correcting assignments. this book was an interesting distraction.

christmas morning. first gift spotted: book on rocks and minerals!

next stop stocking!

remote control monster truck.  santa outdid himself this year!

this face is saying: great, another book.

nerf gun with holster

lego artic from gaga and buppa!!!

the wreckage

a lovely reminder of our dear gaga and buppa

explaining the disneyland memory book to papa

alan got jenga! and is pretty excited about all the toys too

a stack of people is always a welcome addition during vacation - thanks gaga and buppa

peeps from our good friend ann

what i didn't capture is the second right after this when he fell backward and took a nasty spill to the bottom. a boy watched the whole thing and admonished "you're not allowed to climb up the slide." 

a butterfly like this at the end of december? i wasn't sure whether to leave it in or put it outside. i decided on the latter but then regretfully thought it might be too cold for such a fragile little thing

anatole found it and insisted on having his picture taken next to it.

snapshots of my life: week 51

bright eyed boy - more than ready for a visit from santa

wish list page 1. #9 is a book about minerals

page 2. that is supposed to be santa's beard

lollypop lights

mamie is here!

if you ever meet a dane, ask them to define "hygge." it is somewhat close to "cozy" but represents much more. it just might be the country's favorite word other than rugbrød.

boy near the aarhus music hall. i spent friday in arhus, visiting the library to borrow children's books in english and to shop

aros museum, aarhus.

whale sculpture

aros sign for the michael kvium exhibit. the snow has been hauled in for a man made snow park.

city art and christmas market

a christmas sand sculpture exhibit

the side of aros museum is always covered in colorful signage.

snapshots of my life: week 50

gingerbread boys

tuesday morning, uncovering what's behind the lego christmas calendar door

chartreuse fence

i quickly captured this shot in fear that the dagpleje mor (daycare mom) would see me and wonder Who the heck is that? this is a classic danish sight - babies sleeping outside in their strollers

thursday lunch

serious face quickly becomes...

this.

snapshots of my life: week 49

only one picture to show for the week.  i think our tower of holiday gift boxes looks an awful lot like a tree.

our system improves every year. now we've got to haul them to the car and brave the lines at the post office!

snapshots of my life: week 48

the week involved intensive learning, writing, and being in a bit of a pressure cooker environment with 16 others at an arvon short story writing course. i think that's why all but one of my pictures is without human beings. i needed to escape into the landscape and scenery.

northern rail train stop. i took a taxi from hebden bridge to heptonstall where the course took place.

heptonstall countryside

the turn down to lumb bank, the house where the course was held.

the quarter of a mile steep and narrow drive down to lumb bank

entrance

the frontside of this 18th century millower's house that was once owned by poet ted hughes

the backside (this picture was borrowed from the internet)

the view from my window

the view from the edge of the property

just to see the name t.s. eliot gives me a charge

between the buildings

the same place as above but from behind

back garden

mini window found on the driveway down to the property

view from the top, headed into heptonstall for a walk

more of the landscape

entering hepstonstall village

a rather cheeky car parked outside a very formal looking elementary school

stillness

local pub

under the menu it reads "in a warm traditional environment"

tin foil man

cloth hall goes back a few years

the square leading to the church and cemetary

this the where the american writer sylvia plath is buried. the church was built in the 1800s and is victorian gothic

arches upon arches

there are ruins that date back to the 13th century

the low down

ivy covered headstones

this is the section of the graveyard where plath is buried. it was not easy to find her.

a humble presentation

view from near the church

aalborg airport. this sign hit me over the head that i need to do my danish homework.