From the monthly archives:

September 2008

Les Breuleux to Tramelan (Part II)

September 30, 2008

The photos in this post were taken from the forest near La Chaux-de-Breuleux until near La Pied d’or. We started our walk in Les Breuleux and continued on until Tramelan as I wrote in my last post. We found this drawer with a riddle inside during one of our walks last summer. I asked the girls [...]

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Les Breuleux to Tramelan by foot

September 29, 2008

Sunday, we walked from Les Breuleux to Tramelan buying our train tickets one way each direction. We do it this way because we never know where we will end up. A general plan is laid out and then we decide where to end based on how we (the children mostly) feel. I recommend doing it [...]

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Sticks and stones

September 28, 2008

Click to view larger. Photo taken during our walk today for Ruffled Feathers fall scarflette giveaway contest. Her scarflettes are beautiful and I want one! I need to do dishes and bath the kids before bedtime. So, I don’t have time to process more photos from our walk. However, I will put more up tomorrow [...]

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Wrist worms by Sandra

September 26, 2008

My hands and arms are always cold in the winter. Always. Even indoors. When I saw Sandra’s Wrist Worms on Smosch.com I had to order a pair. My Wrist Worms arrived the other day in the mail. Since then, I have been wearing them each time I have to go into the cold. My arms [...]

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Cows invaded our village

September 25, 2008

There are times I forget that I live in a tiny Swiss village. Life becomes normal and routine. And, then I look out my bedroom window and see cows grazing in a field. After we picked up my four year old from the bus stop, we sat on a bench under our favorite tree [...]

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Silent child – Selective Mutism

September 24, 2008

My son has started going to our village garderie (daycare). He has been three times so far and he loves it. We pack his backpack with his house shoes (children do not wear shoes inside) and tissues for his runny nose. He puts his backpack on with his sisters and after we drop them off [...]

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Collecting fall

September 23, 2008

We collected pine cones in the forest during our Sunday walk. Click to view larger. To distract my son from wanting me to carry him, Vilay gave him a large stick. Within five minutes each child had a huge branch that they drug behind them. They drug those branches for most of the walk only [...]

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Random images from my day

September 20, 2008

I love refections in windows and flowers in window sills. This photo has both. Underside of a roof. I like when the underside is painted with an image or design. Very old sign with Helvetia written on it. There is the faint image of a sewing machine above the lettering but it is almost impossible [...]

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Love on the edge

September 19, 2008

On the way back from taking the girls to the bus stop, my son and I discovered two lovely snails. It was like they were having a secret conversation about whether or not to go on together. Their love was on the edge. In the end, they decided to continue with the affair. It was [...]

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Unexpected Treasures

September 15, 2008

In our lives, we will always find unexpected treasures to carry with us always. Some of those treasures are small and we toss them without care into our bag of life. Other treasures are fine and beautiful and we tuck them away in our pockets ever so carefully so that we can quickly find them [...]

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Singing in the rain

September 14, 2008

We took a walk in the rain yesterday. I drug out the winter coats for the kids which are waterproof and warm. With the rain it is starting to get cold outside. Last night, we shut our bedroom window for the first time in months. What the mountains look like during a light [...]

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Both of us

September 13, 2008

One of us ignores the dishes from lunch… …while we play with cars on the floor. One of us remembers that they need to go potty right before we head out the door… …while one of us collects the keys. One of us likes to pull their digger behind them… …while one of us thinks [...]

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Views from my window

September 12, 2008

This weekend, I am looking forward to greeting autumn with open arms. Today was a little chilly and sprinkled with rain here and there. Yet, my heart is happy to see signs of fall. I love the smell and colors of autumn the best. All photos below were taken from my bedroom window. The sun [...]

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Remembering

September 11, 2008

Photo taken in Centerville, Ohio. I have hung my flag out in remembrance of 9/11. Today, I am a little emotional in regard to my country. Maybe, I am even a little protective. It makes it harder for me to be strong when a man asks me for a second time why I don’t speak [...]

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Beautiful day spent in Neuchâtel

September 10, 2008

Neuchâtel is one of our favorite places to get away for the day. It is always relaxing. The girls playing by the water. Click to view larger. I would love to have been on that sailboat! Click to view larger. A large tourist boat cruising by as a man is fishing from his much smaller [...]

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