snow chair

Our first snowfall of the year started on Saturday and continued though the night. We awoke to everything covered with snow, albeit slightly wet, it is still beautiful.

We started our Thanksgiving a little early this year, today, Sunday, with a wonderful feast at the home of a North American family.

I also started playing Christmas carols while I was preparing my traditional Colonial Williamsburg corn pudding and snaps for the meal.

I seemed to have started a lot of things today; let me finish by saying: have a Happy Thanksgiving and Godspeed in your travel to your chosen home-place for the holiday.

Vaden Debut

Vaden made her Theatrical debut Tuesday night with the FES drama club at the Lörrach Library.

The play was written to mark the 70th anniversary of the destruction of the synagogue in Lörrach during Kristallnacht. This was the "Night of Broken Glass", when in a single night across Germany, more than 200 synagogue were destroyed and thousands of Jewish homes and businesses were ransacked.

The play was written by their director and was very well received by the public. The acting was superb.

She is seen her as a server.

Thursday with camera, November 20, 2008

In between rain showers today, I snapped some fotos:

Santa has arrived!

Part of my Thursday with camera caught Santa saying "HI" from atop a home's deck in the middle of a vineyard. So is it really too early for Xmas?

8th Birthday....Lego

On November 14, 2000 my son was born, two minutes before 12 noon. Now mind, that I had no idea it was a boy, but I knew when that baby would arrive. My doctor had said see you after lunch, and I quickly said..I don't think you will be going out for lunch Dr...this baby will be here before then. And he replied with a knowing grin...well I had the last say on that one! have not had many since that day.

So on with the party:

Boys and Lego, 'nuff said:

add more friends to the pile of Lego means more fun...

then add sticks, ....(notice the girls in the tree, without sticks, smart girls)

plus Fire....

and birthday cake, candles and wishes

and presents! .....

Grand total= ONE SUPER 8th BIRTHDAY PARTY!

random fotos from Basel

A couple of weeks ago I was in Basel, Switzerland for a training meeting. Basel is a beautiful and old city founded by the Celts many years before Christ. so we are talking old, but I have so pics of new randomness that goes along with the old, enjoy:

this is a Xmas shop and it has got to have one of the longest German words I have ever seen. Translated it means: Holynight tree decoration configuration business.

Bikes are all over Basel. It is a major form of transportation...

and parking can be a problem. Check out the sign painted above the bell. Velo (bike) parking forbidden.

pretty iron work on a random door

Hey there!

Thursdays with camera, November 6, 2008

No fotos today! This is the fifth Thursday in a row that has been cloudy, rainy or snow. Not kidding. And I do not want this foto project to turn into a weather report. So I'm doing pictures tomorrow, in hope of a sunny day.