My husband said, “This photo looks blurry.” It’s the Instagram effect. I love playing with the various filters and getting different effects…especially when our winter landscape seems to be one long white series of days into weeks. But as I’m…
Category: Photo Friday
I suspect it’s still winter outside, although I’m not so keen to venture out much with our -11° temperature (that’s 12° Fahrenheit for my fellow Americans, which frankly doesn’t sound a whole lot better). This is a cold, cold winter here…
It’s -13 degrees around here, the kind of cold that somehow defies all layering of hats, coats, sweaters, gloves and leg warmers. Yes, leg warmers. I never thought they would become part of my regular winter wardrobe (after a brief…
I love how Instagram gives such a cool vintage vibe to this palm tree photo. Snapped on my mid-afternoon walk around the convention center this afternoon in an attempt to keep the jet-lag at bay. (It worked!) A little sunshine,…
Every morning, the fishermen bring their boats up on the shore of our local beach, where they offload salmon, mackerel and other fish. Somewhere in between hauling up boxes of fish, pulling off rubber overalls and gathering for a quick…
Remember the cassette tape? I spotted this little green graffiti image tucked away on a low wall on my walk the other day. In an instant, it brought me right back to eighth grade. Yes: Those days of trading mixed…
Last week we headed into Gdansk—Sopot, Gdansk and Gdynia form what’s called the tri-city area. Gdansk is about 20 minutes drive from us in Sopot, and we go every few weeks for a change of pace. The city has one…
November 11 was Poland’s Independence Day. This is to mark the anniversary of 1918, when Poland resumed independence from Russia, Prussia and Austria. Anna and I went out in the evening—not much was open all day except for our “downtown”…