Subtle (Comments Off on Subtle)
12/29/18 •
Just finished reading ‘My garden(book)’ by Jamaica Kincaid, who lives and gardens in Vermont and whose roots are in Antigua. Interesting to read about her childhood home, where there were no gardens but (tiny) houses and (large) plots where everyday life was lived and where useful plants were just, well, planted. A lot of the aggro […]
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Multi talent (Comments Off on Multi talent)
12/29/18 •
Went to Leiden a few days ago to go to a lecture about Boerhave,a multi-talented Dutch scientists from the end of the 17th century. He once had the title ‘teacher of Europe’ and his fame was widespread. One of the first to apply the empirical approach being developed at the time to the field of […]
Pincers, slicers, grabbers (Comments Off on Pincers, slicers, grabbers)
11/30/18 •
I’m not the only one scouring flea markets and second-hand shops for curious objects. Where I focus on mysterious kitchen appliances British architect and teacher David Usborne collects all kinds of curious objects. His collection has been gifted to the University of Arts London and beautifully photographed, to be seen here. Now on display at […]
Inbetween (Comments Off on Inbetween)
11/20/18 •
Wanted to blog about my excursion to the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht today, but hey – my site was hexed. Took me quite a while – and some help from the good people at Argeweb – to figure out what was wrong. Turns out I had bloated my site trying out various backup plugins. I […]
Collages (Comments Off on Collages)
10/03/18 •
Bother – the good people of Argeweb decided to migrate my site to another cluster. I take this to mean that they want to move my stuff to another computer, and it was not a notice to gladden my heart. They had problems right off and my backup brain was offline twice!! which is not […]
Charles Bridge (Comments Off on Charles Bridge)
9/12/18 •
Photographing Charles Bridge is not an easy thing to do – it is sooo crowded any time of day and night. Two solutions presented themselves. One – image from a distance, with a lot of sky (first image below). Two: over the heads of the fellow tourists (second and third image below). I like it […]
Unexpected (Comments Off on Unexpected)
9/10/18 •
A post from the lovely city of Prague today – I’m here because husband has a conference and I was allowed to tag along. Spent the loveliest day yesterday … it is great having seen all the sights on a previous occasion. It frees one up to just go out and wander … Of course […]
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