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Wednesday, 11 November 2009

  • The Rock

    I Think we were in southwest Spain for four days and there are many interesting places to visit. One day we drove down to Gibralter. If a sense of geography eludes you it is a huge rock formation at the entrance from the Atlantic Ocean into the Mediterranean Sea. It is actually a British colony much to the disgust of the Spaniards.
    As we approached a plane took off from there and not ten minutes later we were driving across that runway.
     
    A cable car takes visitors up to the top of the rock...from there you can see the town


    That view is Spain...


    A colony of apes resides on the rock...they are originally from North Africa


    We were warned not to get too close and to guard our bags...they have been known to bite and to grab things looking for food...


    They were so interesting to observe.....


    And the babies were so darling....


    Another inhabitant of the rock.....


    Can you see the misty land and the distant mountain? That is Africa...it killed my husband that we were so close and did not have time to visit there as well.... there are ferries.....perhaps another time...


Friday, 06 November 2009

  • Fantastic Friday...

    It is a beautiful day here in Eastern PA! The sky is so blue! I am nearly finished my thesis writing, hubby is preparing to teach his course at college, our carpet is nearly installed and the pile of boxes in our house is shrinking. Since it is getting colder I thought it a good time to begin to post some summer photos of Spain to warm us up. We stopped there for a few days in June on the way to our son's graduation.

    The view from our hotel balcony....that is the Mediterranean Sea...
     
    The enchanting village of Mijas...


    Little church square...Mijas....


    Spanish doorways...




    An abundance of colorful pots..........


    Beautiful bougainvillea...


    Sweet smelling Jasmine...

    Can you spot the bananas???


    Unknown but beautiful plant.....


    An evening view from the balcony...see the lighthouse? It blinked so I was lucky to get a photo of the light!


    It was in the 80's most of the time we were there and the sea water was warm...the village was nice..a small number of restaurants and not too noisy. Much of the Costa del Sol is overbuilt and very boisterous with tourists. We chose well.




Wednesday, 28 October 2009

  • Currently
    Hard Sayings of Jesus (Jesus Library)
    By Frederick Fyvie Bruce
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    A Soggy Day and we are not even in London!

        It has been extremely wet over the past few days which supports my theory that we are changing into a semi tropical rain forest over here in Pennsylvania!I have had a busy week unpacking boxes, pulling up disgusting old carpet and writing my next to last chapter for my thesis project. Sunday was actually sunny and gorgeous so I did get some beautiful autumn color photos for your enjoyment... especially for those of you who do not have these beautiful colors in your location.
    I have been reading a book by F.F. Bruce called "The hard sayings of Jesus and I like this quote from it..."It is not the parts of the Bible I don't understand that give me trouble but the parts I understand only too well!" Mark Twain

    Here is the view from my back doorstep when it was rainy early last week...
     
    This is only a few days later..same view....


    If you think you have a leaf problem...this was one day after we spent hours raking!!!


    And the sun finally appeared above our house on the Lord's Day..............


    The sky was so blue!


    This is at our church...


    So beautiful!


    Our church property from the road....


    And one last bit of color.....


    Hope you are all having a wonderful week!

Friday, 16 October 2009

  • Still Blustery and not too warm inside either!

    My fingers are blue! I am volunteering at church today...bonus..I get to use their computer while I wait on the phone. Our offices are in a very old farmhouse and this week the ancient furnace gave up the ghost. We cannot afford to replace it since we are still paying for the replacement air conditioner that died in August. So we are resorting to space heaters. My house was toasty this morning because I was baking my daughter's birthday cake. It smelled so good too! She likes carrot cake and I found a recipe that was a prize winner in Better Homes (my fav mag) and it is a combination carrot/cheese cake. I will take a photo and let you know how it tastes.....Monday meanwhile, I located 10 circle photos to share and some of them are actually in Spain :

















     



Thursday, 15 October 2009

  • Blustery Day!

    Wow! It is raining hard and only 42 degrees...more like winter than autumn. I would have stayed home and kept busy unpacking but I had to shop for my daughter's birthday dinner on Sunday. I need to bake her cake tonight. Saturday we drive up to Binghampton, NY to a surprise party for a friend who was best man at our wedding. He is 60!!! I heard on the radio that it is snowing in the poconos so you people in Michigan have nothing on us!

    We have an older telly that doesn't get the new digital stations and we don't have cable so we rent DVDs from the library and we have watched some interesting films lately. Last night we watched one called Miss Pettigrew. Have any of you seen it?

    Now would be a good time to post photos of the warm days we had in Spain last summer but I don't have my "stick" with me...maybe tomorrow...

    "....now we are the children of God and it does not yet appear what we shall be......"
    Just what did you mean by that, John?


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About Me

  • I am artistic, sensitive, spiritual. I like reading, walking, growing things, exploring new places, art, music, people. I have been married 30 years. I have three "children" but two are actually adults now. We have a tiny chihuahua named Bindi. I am from the USA but have lived in Europe since 1989.

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