i am amsterdam

went for a visit to the venice of the north to see some friends.

it's been a long time

i've been away. to the south. with my cellphone. we went sailing in the grenadines. i was a little worried about the salt air and what it might do to the insides of my trusty sony ericsson state of the art 2005 phone. but luckily all went well.

shades of gray

the sky in autumn in paris. for my friend evy who asked me if i was staring out my window at the "gorgeous grays".

almost everyday

i ride over the seine from the right bank to the left bank and each and every time i am left speechless by the view. it was a little like that when i lived in manhattan and saw the empire state or chrystler buildings or the brooklyn or queensboro bridges on a regular basis. of course the photos never really manage to capture the true majesty of real life but still...

man in a plexiglass box

a concert at the pompidou center. the audience lsitens on headphones. i heard say that the music was too loud and so people had to hold the headphones a couple of centimeters from their ears.

hand in the cookie jar

i have cats and i have goldfish and apparently they live in complete harmony. the fishes's ecosystem funtioning as the cats's water bowl, with no untoward behavior up until now.

flora

for some reason, i have always had a childlike love of scientific illustration. or whatever you would call these types of drawings of plants. i saw this in a park in central paris. i have yet to verify that these are indeed the primary species of trees in the city but i will.