R is for rose

This is a tiny rose glued to the card of a very special gift shop I once encountered. I no longer have the beautiful card but this picture from my archives to remember it.  

                                                Ruby  Tuesday  ~   ABC Wednesday

red jackets and sweaters

 Ruby Tuesday 2

I just got back from a ski vacation. The last days were very sunny and warm, many took their jackets off to sunbathe instead!   these guys (protected by some editing)  were having a blast playing with the snow at lunch time.

Photo Hunt: public

Part of a necropolis  from the second and third centuries A.D. lie in Vila de Madrid square downtown Barcelona. The 95 graves lie in between flower-beds on both sides of one of the minor roads that leads into the Roman city of Barcino (Barcelona). Most of the tombs are 'cupae', a simple funeral monument. The necropolis lies outside the Roman wall, as the law prohibited burials within the city. Source.  I find ancient places simply fascinating , this one is open to the public  all the time, as you can see in the picture.


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And extended to Ruby Tuesday and Rednesday
 

autumn red

Ruby Tuesday

Ruby Tuesday and a blogging pause

Ruby Tuesday

This is a shot from last May. The kitesurfers are not allowed here again until October, when most of the swimmers are gone.

I will be gone for about three weeks as of tomorrow, coming back in early September. I have no scheduled posts since I won't have time to visit and I believe in blogging interaction.  We are flying into Chicago and will be with dear (non-blogosphere related) friends in the good ol' Midwest.  Enjoy your summer , do a little dance and thanks for dropping by!

winning colors

Busy times  make it difficult to sit down to blog, that's why this picture is my entry for all of this:

Mellow Yellow Monday, Macro Monday, and Ruby Tuesday

This is one of my two red hibiscus which came with the house ( built in the early 60's), the afternoon sun gives the yellow touches. Red and yellow are the colors of the Spanish flag.  In case you haven't heard (haven't you??) Spain won the World Cup yesterday,  celebrations will continue today as the team returns to Madrid and I imagine the ones from Barcelona arrive here on Tuesday, so there is still soccer fever in the air.

red brush

Callistemon laevis. I'd love one for my garden, I took this picture at a park in Valencia.

Macro Monday, Ruby Tuesday

red in motion

This is not an award-winning picture but it is a small tribute to this year's short asparagus season and it sort of represents how busy real life has been in the past few days... AND there is a bit of red there too! This is Mr Mar and his quick peeling tecnnique. He is the cook in this household and we are all very thankful for that.

Ruby Tuesday

Update: this post had another name but I love interaction and I loved the second comment, so I used it to rename the post!

row your red boat

It rained all day yesterday, it won't get any better today... Because of the rain I just watched the waves from my dining room window, where I have a lovely view but my little camera cannot capture that, therefore no pictures! I was going through my archives and found one from Gran Canaria taken in 2006: some red for Ruby Tuesday!! I remember I took this picture from the hotel's breakfast room early in the morning.

caress

Ruby Tuesday

looking up

Ruby Tuesday

Inside the Cathedral of St. Peter in Geneva (where John Calvin gave his inspiring sermons during the mid-16th century, the internet told me this after my trip...) there is also a chapel. Here you see a  detail of the ceiling of the 14th-century Gothic Chapel of the Maccabees, which was used as a warehouse and then a lecture hall after the Reformation, but in 1878, it was reconsecrated and richly decorated.

Pictures of the chapel from the net can be seen here

just a tiny bit of red

Ruby Tuesday

View of Barcelona last Sunday - not the best day for pictures but it was a lovely mild day- showing the old port in the middle, at about 3 o'clock you see the Olympic Port (built for the 1992 Summer Olympics) , right where the tall tower is, which contains offices. They are actually two towers that flank either side of the port’s entrance, but the one housing a 5* hotel is hiding because of the perspective. The Columbus statue can be found at 8 o'clock , and that also marks the famous Rambla in Barcelona.

And the bit of red can be found at 5 o'clock on the cruise ship, can you see it??

spring under my feet

Look at that little stream as seen from the chairlift!! (pictures straight out of the camera- taken last week. I know most of you are sick and tired of snow...not this skier, who has to drive 8 hours to enjoy the magnificent white landscape!)

Skiers are fun people. Here's the Penguin Club out for some adventure. I don't know any of them, but they were more than willing to pose !

The above pictures are my entry for this week's Ruby Tuesday,  this time with only a little bit of red.

Aloha! this baseball cap cracked me up and reminded me of our charming Hawaiian friend, Thom!

melting point

When Macro Monday meets Ruby Tuesday

UPDATE after the 10th comment: I will be on forced blogging hiatus, as my pc caught a mean virus and my technical help will be available next week... I am going to miss you...wish me luck!!

red curtain

Terracotta warriors in Santiago, Chile. When I spotted red I thought this perspective would qualify for Ruby Tuesday!

fire run

Correfocs (meaning "fire run") are amongst the most striking of Catalonia's festive events: "devils" play with fire and with the people. These devils are not the incarnation of evil; they are sprightly and festive, dancing to the sound of the drums and the traditional gralla, while they set off their fireworks. Source + read more here. Another note here. They are fun to watch, but it is safe to  keep a  distance! This shot was also taken at the local festivities last Tuesday.

Ruby Tuesday

my xmas cactus

Ruby Tuesday

I didn't buy a poinsettia this year, but a Xmas cactus for the first time and I am very pleased with it.


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meeting a friend

                                                                          (Erfurt, Germany)

Ruby Tuesday

I met a college friend yesterday, who was in the city on a business trip. We hadn't seen each other in ages (only through f@cebook lately) and we had a lot of catching up to do!  Fun in real life kept me away from the blogosphere on  a lovely, warm fall day. And that even made me forget the bad cold I have been nursing lately!

ruby tuesday

ruby red street decoration

seen in Lisbon, Portugal, earlier this month,  Xmas decorations! Specially photographed for

 Ruby Tuesday.

If you think it is too early, well: I guess it is the thing to do when there are neither Halloween nor Thanksgiving celebrations.

off to see the wizard

Visiting Lisbon last week, I ran into this poster and Ruby Tuesday came immediately to my mind!! Now you know it's been played at a theater - not near you, but in Lisbon. And you know the name in Portuguese: O Feiticeiro de Oz .

I got thirsty so I ordered a diet c*oke, which is called "light" in Europe and it looked like this:

Ruby Tuesday