Saturday, January 24, 2009
Death in Venice
Death in Venice, An opera by Benjamin Britten, was presented in a great production at La Monnaie here in Brussels. The staging was dreamlike, except for the long transition from Munchen and the Ship to Venice.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Walking to the tram
We walked to the tram stop, the new way to get to the Metro, in order to get downtown. Trhough the fields, and then on the tram.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
By the side of the road
Our Metro Stop
This is the subway stop in Kraainem. It's simple, pretty bare of decoration, but it bring light right now to the tracks, and I like that
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Politics in Brussels
Yesterday there demonstrations downtown like there were across Europe, about the current Gaza-Israeli conflict. Someone had asked me what the feeling was here...The first sentence "Diverses associations et ONG organisent ce dimanche une manifestation pro-palestinienne à Bruxelles pour dénoncer la situation dans la Bande de Gaza" roughly translates as "Diverse associations and organizations staged a pro-Palestinian demonstration Saturday to denounce the situation in the Gaza strip." You'll notice that the picture of the demonstration they have is from New Year's Eve, not from yesterday's demonstration.
Ice non-storm
We woke up the other morning to a frozen non-storm. The weather has been foggy, then the temperature dropped, and all the trees and shrubs seemed to be coated with ice. It looked kind of like infra-red pictures: there was a complete color shift.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
Snow Day!
This is a street two blocks fom our house, hours after the snow stopped. I wonder when they will get to it.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
What Just Happened
What Just Happened is reviewed here. We watched the movie this afternoon. It was very enjoyable, bitterly funny. Some people who like dogs aren't going to like. That's all I can say.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Geese
I think these weere a couple of geese, that looked a little bit lost, out in the middle of a field. You'll have to zoom on this one to even begin to see this. Although they are small in the frame (and one of them was sitting down when I actually took the picture) they seemed large when seen across the field.
How do you ski when there is no snow?
This man was on wheeled skis - I don't know what else to call them - rolling his way across country.
Spiders on Acid
Those of us of a certain age probably remember the pictures of a perfect spider web, right next to a spiderweb by a spider on acid. Apparently the spiders around here were hallucinating last night.
Actually, I think, it's the heavy fog, and the 38 degree F weather, which led to moisture accumulating on the webs, and the weight of the moisture led to the appearance of drug degraded behaviour.
A Foggy Day in the suburbs of Brussels
I went for a walk today in the suburbs of Brussels. Oscar got a good walk. So far, there was no tinkle left. We saw somintersting things in the walk.
Friday, January 2, 2009
Thursday, January 1, 2009
New Year's Eve 3
We met our other friends, Ellen & Kathy. And then we all went ot a Latin restaurant in Woluwe.
Antonio Barbosa is the owner, and although the place has only been open ten weeks, it was very good, very enjoyable. We especially liked the Butterfly scampi with cuitlacoche (Mexican truffle), and I have to say the Argentinean beef (Argentine filet pûr with sauce of mushroom and chile de arbol (Mexican chili) served with garlic potatoes) was great. We had Chilean white and Argetinean red with our courses, and a wonderful, warm time.
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