Sunday, December 13, 2009

Pastel softness, strengthening hues






















































































































































































I took lots of photos on our holiday, mainly of beautiful architecture, scenery, plants etc., a few of us, and the occasional odd or mystifying thing.....
... more can be found over at Flickr:

- Germany (Heidelberg, Speyer etc.)
- Paris
- Basel
- Venice
- Florence

Window shopping ...

... in pretty Paris:













Travel snaps

To anyone who's interested, I'm sorry I've been so slack with my blog recently (for some reason I'm in a bit of an energy dip and I haven't managed to get back into posting mode). Let me make a start by posting some photos from our wonderfully relaxing time in Germany a few weeks ago...





Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Home!

Back already? How time flies!
We expected to find our new garden shrivelled to a crisp upon our return, but Melbourne has had some unexpected downpours so our lawn is high and lush and the veggies are reaching for the sky. Hooray!

It's actually bucketing down again now, so I can't get out to do the weeding .... better get on to some sewing as I wait for Flickr to upload my many, many holiday snaps.

(droplet pic from here)

How is your Tuesday treating you?

Friday, November 27, 2009

Venezia - magnificent time capsule





Oh Venice - exquisite city .... you have totally captured my heart!

We're certainly getting a workout as we wander through countless backstreets, up and down steps and over bridges, but the wonderful discoveries around every corner always tempt me to explore further.

We wake every morning to the sound of ringing churchbells, footsteps on stone paving and the murmur of conversations drifting up from the narrow lane below our window. What bliss to have no background traffic noise at all throughout the entire city!

Still struggling to upload my own photos ... these are from here.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Ah, Paris!

..... we're leaving the City of Light tomorrow, after ten days of fun and frolics. I'm sure I'll post pictures when I get home, but in the meantime, you may wish to explore the delights of Paris yourself through the creative eyes of Carol from Paris Breakfasts.

Tomorrow morning we'll catch a train to Switzerland.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Migrating Boyds

We flew North for the summer!

We're enjoying the crisp, late-autumnal weather in Heidelberg, while Melbourne swelters again and bushfires burn in Victoria. We went up to Heidelberg Schloß and had dinner at my friend Nicole's house in Speyer, and tomorrow we're catching up with Anke and Johannes to celebrate St Martin's Day with a traditional feast. We plan to go out to the Pfälzer Wald on Thursday to soak up a little more of the deciduous woodland atmosphere, then it's on to Paris on Friday .... Wheeeee!

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Robot love











Find more wonderful robots made from found objects by clicking here and here ...

Sunday, November 01, 2009

Hallowe'en

How did you spend your Halloween?





We stocked up on lollies for local trick-or-treaters, but none came, so we had to eat them ourselves.

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