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moments of perfect clarity
www.julochka.com
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an outlet for the madness with occasional flashes of insight.
#177713 in All , #5253 in General Lifestyle

posh gin

i went to the doctor today (remember that cough i had? i still have it) - it was only a hop, skip & a jump from germany, so i slipped over the border to a proper (read: has tapas, yogurt in jars,...

36 min ago

some days are like that

"what happened to our summer?" asked samba (strangely, he didnt question the fact that we had placed a chive flower on his head.) today was cold, windy and grey. we were spoiled last week, i ...

22 h ago

gut feelings

photo of frankies tummy (get it? gut feelings?) how do you make decisions? do you think things through thoroughly and weigh all of the possibilities? or do you follow your heart? or a feeling in the ...

1 day ago

it takes two

we attended the wedding of a good friend of mine this weekend. we used to work together and i used to say that she was the keeper of my brain, or at least my memory and on more than one occasion, my ...

2 days ago 1 person likes this

make hay while the sun shines

the weather is absolutely glorious. the sun doesnt set til after 10 p.m. were soaking up the light. and time with the kittens. its good to spend time with kittens. they live in the moment like nobody...

6 days ago

when istanbul was constantinople

i just read about orhan pamuks newly-opened museum of innocence in istanbul. its a brilliant concept, actually - because the museum is an extension of his novel of the same name. a novel and a museum...

23 may 12

why is it?

i have taken somewhere in the neighborhood of 120,000 photos (not kidding) since acquiring my nikon D60 in may 2008. my child, who is 11, has probably taken 1000 or so. i hand her the camera. she tak...

22 may 12

kittens!

the weather is awesome. business is good. so you get cute pictures of kitties. most of which were taken by sabin.

22 may 12

sunday evening satisfactions

no bunnies were brutally killed. there was sunshine. there was lying on a blanket in the grass. surrounded by playing kittens. reading a good book (or at least trying to). there was wine. and interes...

20 may 12

sunday morning politics

back when i was in high school, we went every autumn to the world wide paint horse congress in wichita, kansas. as you probably know, wichita is a hotbed of rabid anti-abortion folks and other than t...

20 may 12

frankie

  i dearly wish this photo was in focus.  im not really sure why its not, except sometimes my macro lens does that. frankie is our favorite of our batch of four kittens. theyre all boys. he...

17 may 12

the road ahead

the way is clear, the light is good, i have no fear, nor no one should. it has been a rather long and winding road, at times blocked by obstacles and obscured by fog, but it seems to suddenly have cl...

15 may 12

70 years of luck

i bought a stack of old books at the flea market the other day. among them was a little almanac for northern norway for 1942. i grabbed it because it had quaint handwriting in the back and interestin...

14 may 12

a weekend of contrasts

oh what a weekend. highs. lows. sorrows. satisfaction. relaxation. tension. irritations. delights. wind. sunshine. clouds. laughter. tears. all of the contrasts you can imagine. at the end of it, we ...

13 may 12

flea market loot

ive long been looking for one (or 14) of these bread dough troughs. i didnt really want one that was painted, but i was somehow charmed by this folk-art motif and the price was right, so i got this o...

12 may 12

picture perfect bunny and other pretty things

after losing her gorgeous sister earlier in the week, i appreciate peaches even more. tho i dont actually know if she is a she or a he. i might have accidentally let snowy and samba spend some time t...

10 may 12

taking the back way

i meandered the back roads yesterday, deciding that although there was a very fine rain and it was a bit grey, i wouldnt let it stop me from getting some shots of the rapeseed fields, which are in th...

10 may 12

a little story and a new blog

i accidentally stole my bathrobe from a japanese hotel in 2007. i know what youre thinking, "sure it was an accident, youre not fooling us." but really it was. they kept folding it up all per...

09 may 12

a little collection of whats on my mind

after seeing the delightfully weird me and you and everyone we know on the silver channel a few weeks ago, i ordered one of miranda julys books of short stories from the library. she had written and ...

08 may 12

window shopping in copenhagen - part 4

and the last installment of my window shopping in copenhagen. this time, the clothing-related ones. i do rather wish my reflection hadnt been visible in these.

08 may 12

fragments of dreams

door to another world i worry sometimes about the world i inhabit in my dreams. about the ways it overlaps with my waking world. and the ways it doesnt. the odd cast of characters that show up over t...

07 may 12

window shopping in copenhagen - part 3

more windows from our wander around copenhagen on the big prayer day. tho i love living in the country, sometimes you just need a fix of the city. oh, and by the way, about the big prayer day. its on...

07 may 12

window shopping in copenhagen - part 2

more window treatments from my afternoon in copenhagen on the big prayer day. luckily for my wallet, everything was closed.

06 may 12

window shopping in copenhagen - part 1

it was the big prayer day, so everything was closed. that was undoubtedly for the best. but i couldnt resist a bit of window shopping in wonderful copenhagen.

05 may 12

up a tree

we were out on a bike ride last evening and we found this little kitty in a position similar to this - up a tree. meowing. we coaxed her down and into my bike basket and brought her home, as she seem...

04 may 12

wherein she overuses the word "energy"

choosing your path such an awesome day. i went to a place where i know there is truly bad energy palpable in the very air. in fact, it was actually proven by a strange phenomenon as i approached...it...

03 may 12

iPhone therefore iAm

serenity now husband took my phone with him this morning. hes sick. hes got a fever. and it apparently affected his brain and he just took the the whole stack of phones that was sitting on the shelf....

02 may 12

sunshine, bunnies and change

and the week of awesome continues...weve got sunshine and 20°C. we dont want to come into the house at night, its so perfect outdoors. so many good things are happening this week that not even the di...

01 may 12

hello monday!

hello monday! so happy to see you!  i know youre going to be the start of a very good week.

30 apr 12

an awesome week

in the belief that writing is the new praying, i hereby declare that the coming week will be awesome. i will ... do everything on my to do list. ...not waste time doing things that dont move things f...

29 apr 12

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