This saying sounds familiar! Triggered by a sign at an Airbnb we stayed at recently I got curious to see if I could find its true origin. The search yields plenty of signs with a rich selection of designs and also contents. Amazing what people can envision to flush – beyond the expected items that […]
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Observations, UncategorizedTraveling is a rich opportunity for observations – here I am combining two airport stories. Airports are places for a lot of “goodbyes” and “welcomes”. As we were marching towards the TSA station there were two older women looking and waving after their friends that had entered the maze of ribbons guiding the queue. They
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ObservationsAt Frankfurt airport I noticed interesting devices today. They looked like an inverted umbrella that sits on a tube that sticks out of a box about 12”x12” square and about 3 feet high. They could almost go for a lamp for indirect illumination. Upon closer look I noticed the label, which said something about water
The seasonal changes are often if not most of the time associated with visual cues. The color green reappearing in the spring alongside early flowers, the rich flowerbeds of the summer with lush forests and meadows, the turning leaves in the fall and browns and greys that eventually get covered by snow in the winter.
Last week I rode my bike in the morning on the Portland Springwater Corridor – a trail that goes along the Willamette River between the Tillicum bridge and the Sellwood bridge and then turns inland. In the morning this trail is used by a good number of commuters, headed into Portland for their day’s business.
On our final berry picking trip in the middle of August we wanted to fetch the last harvest of blueberries for the year. We knew it was late but the websites for the farm we intended to go to showed berries still being available. In hindsight one has to wonder if indeed the webpage was
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ObservationsAfter visiting the nuclear reactors in Hanford in Washington and watching the movie Oppenheimer the historical loop closed for us this week with a visit to Los Alamos in New Mexico. The small town is only 45 min by car from Santa Fe where we were staying. The drive is interesting since at one point
