recent in-house sightings

$3 ice skates

ancient quilt my mom discovered in the closet
maxi
her button collection

unicorn mobile

the savior
again, with madre
ridiculous feline behavior
seriously?

ireland

view from the bus stop, northern ireland

giant's causeway, northern ireland
giant's causeway

again

swarm, giant's causeway
this rock had a name; i forget it.... near giant's causeway
near causeway
queen anne's  lace

beach near causeway.  it was freezing.

killybegs, republic of ireland
church grounds, killybegs
again
river corrib, galway

kind of cute, kind of gross... inishmore, aran islands

again
rooster, inishmore
our guide from doolin up to the cliffs of moher.  we named her susan; she was wonderful.
the beginning of the trek

susan taking it all in

view on the way up
bad sign #1
bad sign #2: we are what the cows are running towards.
bad sign #3

rock formations we enjoyed after susan fought off the cows

cliffs of moher
one of many electric/barbed/rusty fences that needed climbing over
the cliffs
monument, dublin

switzerland, germany, & the netherlands

i am exhausted from sorting through all these photos.  please excuse my uninformative captions.  these are from the days spent with my wonderful relatives in vevey, switzerland.  it was the most relaxing few days of the trip, despite the mountain hike.  after are some photos of heidelberg and amsterdam.  by this time, i was honestly getting tired of having my camera on me at all times so there are fewer.

view from pre-alps hike with my ex-pat cousin and her swiss husband, switzerland 

paragliders that ran right off the mountain

our friend at the top of the climb
view from the top
view from my family's balcony, vevey, switzerland 
and again, right on lac leman (lake geneva)

day trip to bern!

bern wires
zytglogge, bern
swiss guard
street decor

facade of the munster, gothic cathedral, bern

ladies on the munster
stained glass inside
extended family who fought for switzerland 
bern's peculiar building ornaments

the alps

see the monstrous peak on the right?  we climbed to the top.
out of control veveyan swans
wonderful fork in lac leman by the food museum
carousel, vevey

detail on the hubstrasse, heidelberg, germany

madonna and child, heidelberg
awesome and oddly proportioned reclining man
schloss, heidelberg
bunny, heidelberg

inside the schloss

sweet threads, schloss
from the castle
some details in the castle
view of the castle from the philosophers' walk

veil

gross
river neckar
goats, amsterdam campground, the netherlands
hen

scariest mammal i've ever seen, amsterdam

abdominal growth
canal, amsterdam
canal
wildflowers, amsterdam