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Share Your World – May 02, 2017

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Would you rather live where it is always hot or always cold? If I had to choose between extremes, I’d rather live where it’s always hot. But we live in Los Angeles, where we have a desert climate, which means it’s mostly hot/warm all year long, but nights are usually cool and humidity is low. To me, that’s perfect. No snow to worry about, no shoveling, no frigid weather to deal with. Here we just worry about wildfires and earthquakes. By the way we just had a shallow 3.0 magnitude earthquake here in Santa Monica about 2 hours ago. Just a big jolt and a bang. So far, no aftershocks…

Do you prefer long hair or short hair for yourself? Definitely not short. Have had it and wasn’t happy. These days I like a longish but not too long hair, in a modern bob.

What is your favorite month of the year? When I lived in Washington, D.C., October was my favorite month. That’s when autumn hits the region, the trees start changing colors, the air is cool and delightful. Here in L.A. months are very similar but autumn months are also nicer. So, I guess I’ll stick with October, which is also my birth month. 🙂

What is the easiest way for you to learn something new? By reading, by seeing and doing, in a classroom? I am definitely a visual learner. I also learn from listening to interesting lectures and conversations. I have no patience for reading instructions, for example, which gets me in trouble sometimes.  So I guess I can say I learn better by seeing and doing.

Optional Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up? I’m grateful that last week, Kaya, our family dog (she is really our daughter’s but we think she is ours), recovered quickly from an injury she suffered (we don’t know how it happened) that left her unable to climb stairs and with difficulty running. She was very depressed… Some acupuncture and muscle relaxants helped her recover quickly. And for next week, I’m looking forward to visiting beautiful San Francisco! We’ll spend the whole week there, starting this coming Sunday and returning the following Saturday. I’m very excited about that!

Doggie acupuncture…

  

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WPC: Wanderlust

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Wanderlust: a strong desire to travel. I’ve always liked traveling and discovering new places and people. Then, I married a man who likes to travel so much that as soon as we get back from a trip, he starts talking about and planning the next one! Our most recent trip included four cities in three countries: Italy, Spain and France. I’m still sorting the 2000+ photos I took during the three-week trip and in ten days we’ll be off again, but I won’t go into that now. Here are highlights of our recent trip.

Piazza del Duome, Milan
Cenacolo Vinciano,where Da Vinci’s mural The Last Supper is in Milan
Da Vinci’s The Last Supper.
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan
Plaza de Catalunya, Barcelona.
Sagrada Familia, Barcelona.
La Boqueria food market, Barcelona.
Barcelona Cathedral.
Gaudi’s Casa Milá (La Pedrera), Barcelona.
Gaudí’s Casa Batlló, Barcelona.
Aix-en-Provence, France.
Aix-en-Provence.
Old town, Aix-en-Provence.
Weekly Market, Aix-en-Provence.
Market, Aix-en-Provence
Les Baux de Provence.
Les Baux de Provence.
The Pont du Gard is an ancient Roman aqueduct that crosses the Gardon River near the town of Vers-Pont-du-Gard in southern France.
Two-thousand-year-old Pont du Gard.
Palais des Papes, Avignon, France.
Inside Palais de Papes, Avignon
Palais des Papes, Avignon.
Old Center, Avignon.
Old Center Avignon
Chateauneuf-du-Pape Wine Museum
Chateauneuf-du-Pape museum
Mount Sainte-Victoire is a mountain in southern France, overlooking Aix-en-Provence. It became the subject of a number of paintings by Paul Cézanne.
Nice, Cote D’azur.
Nice, Cote D’Azur.
Nice.
Nice Center.
Antique Market, Nice.
Nice.

 

 

Thursday Doors – April 27, 2017

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The doors of the Sagrada Familia, in Barcelona, are something to admire in wonder. I posted about the basilica earlier this week but left the door photos for Norm’s Thursday doors.

  1. The main door of the Nativity entrance to the basilica is seven meters high and three meters wide. It is made of bronze and decorated with a large number of motifs from nature, such as leaves, plants, various flowers and all kinds of insects. It is predominately green, with some yellow flowers on its lower part and a band of red leaves on its upper part. I wish I wasn’t rushing so much when I took the photos, but we got tickets for the last hour of the day and, as it happened the first time we were at Sagrada Familia, it was raining! So we rushed inside.
  2. A lateral door, also on the side of the Nativity entrance, very ornate with flowers, leaves, insects, bird nests, and other small creatures, but in blue and pink colors. The forth photo shows a detail of this door. See if you can spot something.   
  3. There are other doors to the Basilica,such as the “Prayer Door, on the Passion entrance. We didn’t come in through that side this time around, so I didn’t have time to photograph them. But they are beautiful. Here are a couple of not very revealing photos from my 2012 visit. Also, in bronze, the Prayer door has the prayer “Give us this day our daily bread” inscribed in 50 languages. Some words are highlighted with gold, including Jesus, which can be seen in the photos.