Daily Themes

20141203 094024 December 3- I see this style of Santa everywhere! 20141203 162513 Seems like a rip-off: flying to droughty California for skiing 20141204 075211 December 4 - post Thanksgiving excess poundage 20141204 114203 Christmas déco at IGD/UniL
20141204 172802 My ski poles finally make it to RGB 20141205 200108 December 5 - Valérie and Greg 20141205 200110 Val straight-arming her grandpa! 20141205 200114 I love her (slight) heft!
20141205 200211 Val and her mom I 20141205 200212 Val and her mom II 20141205 200356 Happy grandparents I 20141205 200404 Just can't get enough of Val
20141205 200441 Happy grandparents II 20141205 200520 Happy grandparents III 20141205 200621 Happy grandparents IV 20141205 200642 Happy grandparents V
20141205 225505 Titine reading I 20141205 225507 Titine reading II 20141205 225516 Liking that plug! 20141205 225526 Comfy in her sleeper
20141205 225529 So much to see! 20141205 225643 Ready for bed 20141205 225648 Whaddaya say, Val? 20141206 123005 December 6 - Christmas in all its commercial splendor is upon us!
20141206 153216 Val en promenade à Vevey I 20141206 153231 Titine is so funny! 20141206 153234 Too funny! 20141206 153310 Where is she going?
20141206 153311 Where is she going? II 20141206 153313 Where is she going? III 20141206 153317 Where is she going? IV 20141206 153318 Hunh...
20141206 160124 Vevey storefront 20141206 181437 Setting up the tree we got in Vevey 20141206 183209 The perfect size for our place 20141206 190457 The homemade sauerkraut for the first time.
20141206 193020 Val tries out a harness 20141206 193040 A highchair that you can roll up! 20141206 211715 A concert of harps and Celtic music at St-Vincent. 20141206 214210 Val takes a bottle for the first time and holds it herself!
20141207 103717 December 7 - a different approach to Chernex 20141207 145910 Bathroom graffiti that only works in French 20141207 200114 The day ends at the May Planck Guest House in Berlin 20141207 200120 The painfully clean bathroom.
20141208 093448 December 8 - the participants in the Fifth Third Pole Workshop 20141208 093453 Volker Mossbrugger welcomes everyone 20141208 095651 We are here to learn stuff like this 20141208 110045 Everyone, everywhere wants to claim Einstein
20141208 141357 Break time/group photo time in the back courtyard 20141209 201513 December 9 - restaurant in this rich neighborhood 20141209 204140 Some on my colleagues: German, Nepalese and Chinese 20141210 125718 December 10 - seen the Zürich airport
20141211 162040 December11 - snow has arrived but leaves persist 20141221 131728 December 21 - working Sunday lunch at 1 Mimosenstrasse 20141221 131747 eventually I hope to get a photo with 3 for 3 : not yet 20141221 131749 not yet...
20141221 131842 This might be the one 20141221 131846 or perhaps this one 20141221 133800 The light from our dining room in Montreux now hangs in Zürich 20141221 133854 The renovated bathroom with command seating
20141221 133907 Salon with "famous" Ferran painting 20141221 181856 The evening salon 20141221 181907 Dining room in the evening 20141221 181917 The entry way
20141221 181943 N&B bedroom with one curtain support 20141221 191701 Christmas Market at the Hauptbahnhof 20141221 191715 Zürich Main Station 20141221 191848 Stuff that you can't live without
20141222 154043 December 22 - educational exhibit in the forests of le Cubly: note size of log and location of red paint strip 20141222 154054 The town forest add each hour an amount of wood equal to that in the log to the right. The town only cuts an amount equal to that below the red mark 20141222 154201 Log structure in the woods 20141222 163702 Finally, the hole created by creeping pavement is filled
20141223 151950 December 23 - starting up the Sentier du Télégraphe 20141223 155043 Continuing above Glion, listening to podcasts 20141225 142948 Christmas afternoon, we go to Fondation Gianadda to see an expo of Swiss painters http://www.gianadda.ch/wq_pages/fr/expositions/ 20141225 144549 Hodler's view of the Alpes Vaudoises from Rochers de Naye
20141225 144623 and his view of Lac Léman from Chexbres 20141225 145011 Félix Vallotton, whose works we saw last Christmas in Paris 20141225 145942 another Vallotton 20141225 150247 Anker was a remarkable portraiturist
20141225 151336 Grütli and Lake Lucerne: Switzerland's version of the Hudson River School 20141225 151618 also Anker (I believe) stunning in its detail: e.g. individual heads of wheat 20141225 152328 in the permanent collection, a baby by Van Gogh 20141225 153253 Sisters knitting by Anker
20141225 153303 Why does this touch me so? IMG 1020 Here's why! DSCN3052 December 30- Vivi and Val return to Montreux DSCN3053 Valérie doesn't hold still very long!
DSCN3056 December 31 - last bath of 2014 DSCN3057 with Mama! DSCN3058 So much fun! 20141231 101934 Then out on the town in her sleeping bag suit
20141231 101940 There's a baby in there somewhere! 20141231 135554 Light on water at the end of the year