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Month: April 2008
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Sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G
Sunday morning I was making myself coffee, when I noticed a starling couple on the lawn outside my kitchen window. Both birds were pecking away at the ground, looking for edibles. Suddenly, the female hurried over to the male, they “kissed” (touched beaks), then the male mounted the female – for one second. (Had I […]
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Tableaus at the bus stop(s)
Today I rediscovered the joy of being forced to stand still for a few minutes and do nothing but wait. The waiting was for the bus. I worked late today, and since it was both windy and raining and I wasn’t really dressed for both wind and rain, I decided to take the bus home. […]
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Blackjack
Taken from Paula. What was the last blog you left a comment on? Victoria’s. Favorite black and white movie? Young Frankenstein, which has the distinction of being the first movie I laughed out loud at in a movie theater. What’s in your freezer right now? Assorted veggie mixes, left-over chili, bread. My freezer’s actually too […]
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Finally – signs of spring
Sometimes I have to remind myself it’s still only April. But we seem to be really wanting spring this year. Or maybe I’m just getting old. Naw, we really want spring. That’s it. We had a very dreary winter. We want light and flowers now. Bergen just had a nine-day run of sunny weather (and […]
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Bliss to pay
I’ve had a four-month grace period on the credit card I got to buy my new iMac with. I now have a choice: Pay the whole thing off, interest-free, or start in with monthly payments and interest. There is definitely some Capricorn/Cancer in me because a part of me is saying “No!” to paying it […]
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Snake and lobster and cat
It has been an exceptionally lovely day, warm enough to crowd the lawns of the parks with people in short-sleeved garments. I took this picture in our city park on my way to the Picasso exhibit. The Japanese cherry trees are starting to bud, and I like how the gardeners planted a yellow flower snake. […]
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Thankful for the magic
I’m currently reading “The Moses Code”, and it’s a fascinating experience. The book is about using “I am that I am” (God’s name) and just saying that phrase puts me in a much calmer and happier frame of mind. In general, reading the book has that effect. It’s also reminding me that I am not […]
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Little blue dots of fun
I remember when I lived in Los Angeles, a friend of mine and I drove on the ridge of the Hollywood Hills on Mulholland Drive, a road that devolved into a gravel single lane at the ridge’s narrowest part. We parked and got out and enjoyed the views to both The Valley to the north […]
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The charms of dawn
For the third time, my birdwatching friend Torleif and I went to the recreational area and former fort called Kvarven, which looks out over the city harbor and fjord and various mountains and islands to the north and west. Those islands are what make Bergen a safe harbor, protected from the worst of the North […]
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Wagtail prediction
One sign of spring around here is the return of the migratory bird, the white wagtail. It’s a pretty common sight here in the summer, and it has a striking monochrome coloring, and that characteristic and cute flipping of the tail that gives it its English name. In Norwegian, it’s called “linerle”. There is a […]
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Hey, that’s MY picture!
Look what I found on I Can Has Cheezburger just now: My “black cat crossing path” photo, now wiff kapshun. So I sent them this e-mail: Hi! This is my photograph. I did let a student use it for a collage, and I guess somebody found it and LOLCatted it (is LOLCat a verb? It […]
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Messing around with Photoshop
I saw an illustration someplace, which basically had taken a photograph and turned it into a stained glass window. I am picky about some details with this production here, but I like the effect. The original photograph was taken in Lake Tahoe last summer.
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Printed material
I bought books. Actual printed books. Expedited shipping from Amazon. In New Zealand, of all places. Took a week to get to Norway. Lookit: I found my camera’s manual and managed to take a macro picture of the address label on the Amazon box. You are looking at a first. Please look again. Thank you. […]
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Foreign frustration
“Office hours Monday, Wednesday and Fridays from 9 am to 1 pm.” “Phone hours Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12 pm to 2 pm.” They aren’t making it easy for me to find out when I need to show up to get my “settlement permit” renewed. When I renewed my passport in 2006, I had to […]
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Little luxuries
I woke up feeling good, even though I woke up early on a Saturday. But since I had a hair appointment in town at 10:30, being up and about for a few relaxing hours first was a good thing. Last night I checked a few things online, fiddled with a trial version of Photoshop Elements, […]
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Romance on the roof
The addition to our office building of one extra floor has given those of us on this new level an excellent view of the sex life (and nest-building and child-rearing abilities) of the gulls that like to breed on our roof. This couple is madly in love and expressed it this afternoon by sitting very, […]
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Woodpecker wonder
Today it started to rain as I was on my way home from work, without an umbrella. I decided that since I was carrying groceries, I had no free hand for an umbrella, anyway, and it wasn’t raining that hard, and so I was going to have a happy walk home. Which is about when […]
A Roll in the Universe 