June 2010

Koor-ben-haun

June 29, 2010

Sort of how it sounds when the locals pronounce København. Known to us as Copenhagen. Luckily almost everyone in Copenhagen speaks English, because all of our combined understanding of Spanish, French and Italian helped us not a whit in Scandinavia. People spoke Swedish or Danish around us, and we couldn’t snatch out even a word here [...]

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southern sweden

June 25, 2010

We only had three days in Stockholm. I wish we’d had more time; it’s a gorgeous city, and there was so much more to see. Someday. My mother’s grandparents emigrated from Sweden to Minnesota. It was only after I did a little internet research on the family that I learned of the great emigration of [...]

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where in the world is wonder farm?

June 20, 2010

Can you guess? And if you haven’t figured it out yet: I’m a little behind on posting, due to lack of internet connection, and having to take turns with a single power cord adaptor (sharing with teenagers who need their international Facebook fixes!) But I’m hoping to post more photos in the next few days, [...]

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popping in

June 10, 2010

Things are so busy here that I’m a little dizzy. My oldest graduated from high school on Sunday. We had lots of family and friends here to celebrate, which was lovely. Lulu had spent the prior month making a surprise documentary to show, about H’s filmmaking. It’s a wonderful project, with interviews and clips of [...]

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click!

June 3, 2010

Back when I started this blog, I had no idea how much posting here would make me want to become a better photographer. I knew almost nothing about photography when my kids were small. I just took whatever point-and-shoot we had at the time and pointed and shot. We didn’t even have a digital camera [...]

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