leaving on a jet plane

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I will be gone for one week. I will be spending quality time with family (Mr. Mar's side) and friends in Northern Germany: at the Baltic Sea and in Hamburg. I will be busy catching up and having fun with real people! and I am so thrilled about it that I will dedicate all my time and attention to them. Blogging activities will be resumed soon enough early in June.

The flight lasts a bit over 2 hours, maybe the clouds move away to allow us to see the Alps from above. Last January I flew home to Chile (I have several homes in my heart) and I had a fantastic window view of the Andes in summertime and particularly of the mighty Aconcagua mountain. At 6,962 metres (22,841 ft), it is the highest mountain in the Americas, and the highest mountain outside Asia.

I am adding my link to window views although I can only interact with the early birds before leaving and won't be able to look through your window until I get back. I have mixed feelings about linking and leaving, though... Thanks for keeping this place alive by leaving your friendly and much appreciated words below.

idioms: I and J

It's time for Jientje's A Thousand words in Idioms. "The idea is to pick an idiom, or a saying, (even slang is allowed) and illustrate it with a picture. Each week we'll cover two letters of the alphabet". Here are my choices, pulled -again- -from the archives. Which means idioms are carefully selected to match my pictures... although it seems the meme is intended the other way around, bear with me!

If you'll pardon my French
(UK) This idiom is used as a way of apologising for swearing.



Jack Frost
If everything has frozen in winter, then Jack Frost has visited.

happy 1st anniversary, Ruby Tuesday!

Ruby Tuesday

Celebrating one year posting a little red or lots of red on Tuesdays. Thanks, Mary, for hosting such a fun (and wonderfully ruby) meme. I actually didn't have a picture for today but it's a special date and my red bandana, a Xmas-tree candle and some red ribbon from the drawer quickly rescued me this morning.

make a wish

macro monday

plastic fantastic

A little crocheted plastic thingy , made out of plarn (plastic yarn or yarn made out of plastic bags), a recycling idea I learned through blogging. Quickly done in a few minutes specially for the theme, using a plastic crochet hook (8mm) and placed over my plastic shopping bag. Which means everything on this picture is made out of plastic! And for once I did something with my very ungifted little hands and it even got posted. I am pleased :)

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Creative things made out of plarn can be seen here

heart to heart

true colours thursday : grey || window views

It's meme time!

It's time for Jientje's A Thousand words in Idioms. "The idea is to pick an idiom, or a saying, (even slang is allowed) and illustrate it with a picture. Each week we'll cover two letters of the alphabet". Here are my choices, pulled -again- -from the archives. Which means idioms are carefully selected to match my pictures... I guess the meme is intended the other way around, bear with me!

Greek to me
If you don't understand something, it's all Greek to you.
(it's the way I felt in Athens...)



Have a heart
If someone has a heart, they are kind and sympathetic. If you say, 'Have a heart' to someone, you are asking them to be understanding and sympathetic.

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Tagged! Thom tagged me with the following meme: 6 unimportant things that make me happy. Thank you, Thom, I haven't been tagged in a while, that's probably because I follow my own rules :)

Here is how it works. 1) mention the person who tagged you. Well, that was Thom.
2) THE list: 6 unimportant things that make me happy

Since I am a visual person, I need pictures for my list:

Hearts. Heart-shaped items | Wild flowers |Dark chocolate|

Coffee with a friend| Candles|Playing with my camera: self-portrait.

As usual I am skipping the last part, which is to tag 6 people. Consider yourself tagged if you'd like to play along and let us know about it in the comments. It's wonderful to remember that small things can make a big difference!

my red capris rock

Rock of Ifach

The Peñon de Ifach (Rock of Ifach) is the largest single rock in the Mediterranean called the Northern Rock by the Phoenicians to distinguish it from the Southern Rock at Gibraltar. It has been a Nature reserve since 1987 and provides a shelter for a number of rare plants and home to over 300 species of animals including colonies of sea birds that use it as a nesting ground.

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Butterflies are free to fly

It's springtime and butterflies are busy. I have never seen such big ones like the butterflies pictured here, decorating a balcony for safety reasons. They are butterflies, aren't they? they almost look like an Indian goddess to me (click to enlarge).
Picture taken in Barcelona. Pulled from the archives as it is Monday and I am still not truly awake...

painted

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Humble rural shutters. They probably wouldn't have caught my attention. But they were painted in bright colors.