http://www.berch.info/ The Bergkirchweih is an annual fair and beer festival in Erlangen, Germany. Locals nickname it Berch, which is the Franconian pronunciation of the German word Berg, meaning mou...
Its been a while since I’ve felt the inspiration to join a photo challenge, and I kind of feel like I’m cheating with this one. We went to Nuremberg on Tuesday with our friends visiting f...
I’ve been nominated for The Illuminating Blogger Award! This is my first bloggy award, and I really am thrilled to have been nominated by Abra over at TheMagicalMiss - wordpress has allowed me to lin...
Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation’s service. Source: militarytimes.com via Jennifer on Pinterest In Flanders Fields J...
Day 3 – On Saturday the 19th: we went to the Rope Park: Gröbming, the largest high ropes course in Austria (EUR 30,00 per person per day) well worth it, in fact I think we paid less that day bu...
Did I conjure up images of weapons in your mind? A handy 9mm perhaps? Sorry to disappoint but my new sidearm is my PINK cute little Silver [ no my husband said if I got the hot pink one, no photo tak...
Reblogged from Gymnotes: Last week something big happened in my life. And something big was happening in a friend’s life. She was tapering for a sub 2 half marathon, and very nervous. And, mean...
“Fully embrace the now, no matter what the situation.” ~ Patrick Flynn Well the other day on the way home from a really [ REALLY ] long and frustrating day at work, I did. I had stopped a...
So with having an APFT last week I must say my workouts were not as intense as I’d like. I kept to mainly elliptical and my 7 minute plank workout. AKA 6 Pack Planks [ hyper links to youtube ex...
A woman was sipping a glass of wine while sitting on the patio with her husband, and she said, “I love you so much, I don’t know how I could ever live without you.” Her husband aske...
He flew into San Francisco and proposed to me, we were going to runaway to Tahoe with a few friends and marry before he left on his second tour to Iraq. It was fabulous, we drove up and got ready wit...
The Army’s APFT is introduced with the following instructions: “You are about to take the army physical fitness test, a test that will measure your muscular endurance and cardio respirato...
Good Afternoon / Morning wherever you may be. Yesterday I shared Courtney’s white balance tutorial and I was able to practice a bit on my Weltenburg Abbey Pic to show a few results from Lightro...
I started following Courtney over at Click It Up a Notch shortly after I got my DSLR as a present for Christmas.
Ahh, call me silly but this little guy just screamed, TAKE MY PICTURE! We had an amazing and beautiful spring day here a few days ago, and a few of the guys took the oppurtunity to ride in. A mixture...
So I decided to try and take part in this interesting adventure, receiving my email from Nick @NickExposed.com I truly dug in and tried to come up with ideas to represent the quotes I was sent. I don...
The weather was with us this weekend. A much needed 3 days of sun arrived to Bavaria, and we tried to take advantage of every minute of it. An evening at the fest followed by a day out on the country...
42 years we have been doing this annual shin dig on base. It takes quite a lot of preparation to open a military base up to the public. We have a fest platz on base near the main gate and with a few ...
Reblogged from 7000 Words: I have a Pavlovian response to the words, “We need to go shopping this weekend,” despite the fact that around our house those words don’t mean what they a...
Ohhh what I would give to be back here this week … Anyway … Trento was actually our FIRST stop on our Italian getaway weekend. If you haven’t had a chance to read I have been posti...
I haven’t written in a week and that is COMPLETELY due to life testing me and tossing me about a bit. I’ve started, and stopped, and saved to draft my first attempt to absorb my week-loa...
I loved Venice with all its mysterious wrapping alley ways and gorgeous bridges crisscrossing the canals. There was something about walking around and finding yourself going from bright open piazza&...
** Omg -just as I thought I was going to publish this creation – it errored out and my last save was way before any of the good creative juices got flowing. Grrr. Ok trying again: … And...
Reblogged from loriperkovich: Now this might sound silly to some of you, but if you know me well, then you know — I love coffee. The stronger, the better. So, one would think that the strong co...
I am glad that we had planned it as a one day adventure as the cost in Venice IS pretty steep. We did stuble upon an offer for a free taxi to ride out to Murano to see the “artistic Murano Gla...
Our arrival to Venice was a bit delayed from our stops at the ceramic shop and disappointing attempt to stop at the wine store in Vincenza [ they close from 1230-1530, we arrived? At 1239~ ] with tha...
Just Moi on Easter, a photo by Jen.Ostrander on Flickr. Finally – I got through a list of the To-Do’s. One of which was to get this clutter of an upstairs workout room together in order t...
Much thanks to Abra over at TheMagicalMiss - she had a post on a Lightbox that she had made from NickExposed [ I love how WordPress links me to people across the world who share common joys ]. A big...
Ahh, Bassano Italy. Quiet, small, relaxed and beautifully situated at the foot of the Alps. For some reason, I’m working backwards on our weekend getaway to Italy. It has taken me a solid week ...
I haven’t taken part in a photo challenge for awhile, but when I saw this email come in about I Heart Faces and happiness… well the photo I would chose? Had to be from our recent trip to ...
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