Swiss holiday photos
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rmA few shots from Patty's time here in CH.
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Lake Zurich at sunset. That building is some sort of Vaudville museum or something as far as we could tell. Anyone know what the deal is?
There are A LOT of swans here. And sometimes they are very rage-y and attack each other a lot. Patty found it very upsetting.
The next day Patty saw a shopping trolly submerged under the lake. I took a photo, because I thought it was a creepy image of a world without us.
Although I play it for glamour a lot, our international jet-setting lives are NOT that glamorous. We both travel for professional engagements a lot, often on the dime of people we're working for, often in non-fabulous accommodations (for example, working, western-style toilets are often an unavailable luxury in Patty's line of work, and sleeping on the roofs of buildings because it's too hot inside them isn't uncommon for her either). I, however, am also the king of discount hotel bookings and the like. We do, of course, get to do awesome shit, and we're privileged to do awesome shit, but a lot of it is the very peculiar luck of our various professional obligations. That said, I do try to talk it up, both to get through traveling (which I love, but find exhausting) and also to inspire me towards an ever grander life; but whatever ridiculous salaries you may think we earn to afford our travels, we probably don't. That said, here we are being the glamorous taste-makers we are.
This cat was on a rooftop garden in Rapperswil. I declared that he was a very German cat. No, I don't know.
Some plant debris on some stones at a cathedral complex. I really love this shot.
The cathedral complex (which also hosts a rather random Polish museum) also had surprise deer. Can anyone explain?
More with the deer.
Inside the cathedral complex. Ah, such medieval castle-ness, ne? It's weird, I've seen real estate ads here that mention when dwellings were built, and there will be an ad for a flat in a house built in 1972, next to an add for a flat n a house built in 1564.
More cathedral complex.
Shooting into the sun at the top of the complex.
This photo hits me hard emotionally. It's the airplane trails.
Ominous photo from cathedral complex. Arguably the lighting is crap, but I like the effect. I actually took this shot in reference to some shots in a film I always forget the name of (non-English, featuring people digging a tunnel to escape the plague in some medieval period, and tunneling up somehow into modern times -- it sounds like a crap Hollywood gimmick movie, but it's deeply eerie and often moving. I've not seen it in years, and always forget the name however).
Patty in the window.
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Lake Zurich at sunset. That building is some sort of Vaudville museum or something as far as we could tell. Anyone know what the deal is?
There are A LOT of swans here. And sometimes they are very rage-y and attack each other a lot. Patty found it very upsetting.
The next day Patty saw a shopping trolly submerged under the lake. I took a photo, because I thought it was a creepy image of a world without us.
Although I play it for glamour a lot, our international jet-setting lives are NOT that glamorous. We both travel for professional engagements a lot, often on the dime of people we're working for, often in non-fabulous accommodations (for example, working, western-style toilets are often an unavailable luxury in Patty's line of work, and sleeping on the roofs of buildings because it's too hot inside them isn't uncommon for her either). I, however, am also the king of discount hotel bookings and the like. We do, of course, get to do awesome shit, and we're privileged to do awesome shit, but a lot of it is the very peculiar luck of our various professional obligations. That said, I do try to talk it up, both to get through traveling (which I love, but find exhausting) and also to inspire me towards an ever grander life; but whatever ridiculous salaries you may think we earn to afford our travels, we probably don't. That said, here we are being the glamorous taste-makers we are.
This cat was on a rooftop garden in Rapperswil. I declared that he was a very German cat. No, I don't know.
Some plant debris on some stones at a cathedral complex. I really love this shot.
The cathedral complex (which also hosts a rather random Polish museum) also had surprise deer. Can anyone explain?
More with the deer.
Inside the cathedral complex. Ah, such medieval castle-ness, ne? It's weird, I've seen real estate ads here that mention when dwellings were built, and there will be an ad for a flat in a house built in 1972, next to an add for a flat n a house built in 1564.
More cathedral complex.
Shooting into the sun at the top of the complex.
This photo hits me hard emotionally. It's the airplane trails.
Ominous photo from cathedral complex. Arguably the lighting is crap, but I like the effect. I actually took this shot in reference to some shots in a film I always forget the name of (non-English, featuring people digging a tunnel to escape the plague in some medieval period, and tunneling up somehow into modern times -- it sounds like a crap Hollywood gimmick movie, but it's deeply eerie and often moving. I've not seen it in years, and always forget the name however).
Patty in the window.
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Date: 2010-11-17 05:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-24 06:40 am (UTC)~Sor
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Date: 2010-11-17 05:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-17 06:10 pm (UTC)And I do love the German Kitty and City Deer!
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Date: 2010-11-17 06:19 pm (UTC)About the shopping cart... have you ever been to a big dam, one where the reservoir covers a city? It's CREEPY. You can sit in a boat and look down at the tops of houses, at roads and stop signs. And if you ever plan a trip like that, I've done a great one that I planned with my advisor from engineering school and a bunch of students went to the Quebec Hydro project (it is hugely controversial). I brought my husband and 2-year old (Jordan) along - so I could offer up some info. It was an awesome trip.
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Date: 2010-11-17 06:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-17 07:03 pm (UTC)Might you be thinking of The Navigator?
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Date: 2010-11-17 07:09 pm (UTC)Also, what is it with me and Aussie/New Zealand film -- I had NO idea on this one.
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Date: 2010-11-17 07:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-17 07:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-17 07:19 pm (UTC)but yeah, I get your point about how the cat looks *grins*
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Date: 2010-11-17 07:14 pm (UTC)That cat is named Friedrich.
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Date: 2010-11-17 07:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-17 07:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-17 09:37 pm (UTC)I'm charmed by the surprise deer. Little spotted baby deer! Yeah, I cried at Bambi when I was little. Whatever.
The cat's expression seems awfully German to me as well, but that's born of a big ol' bucket o' stereotype. So.
Ragey swans alarms me a bit, but only because I've seen what angry geese are like.
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Date: 2010-11-17 09:56 pm (UTC)The expression on the face of the first deer makes me giggle.
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Date: 2010-11-17 11:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-11-18 09:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-18 09:33 pm (UTC)There are a few natural creeks in Dallas. It's wild to go lean over the edge (the one in the park nearby is extremely deep and rocky) and see the trash in it. Shopping carts, strollers, old bald tires, all waiting for the archeologists to dig them up and make theories on why these items were sacrificed to the water.
(And if there are alligators in the Texas streams or the New York sewers, I'd bet half of them are armed.)
I love the expressions on the cat and the first deer.
Oh, swans are very ferocious. They can whup your a**, or so I heard from one of my classmates when I was about 8. He tried to tease a swan. Not something one should do. So I'm not surprised they were fighting with each other.
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Date: 2010-11-24 06:42 am (UTC)~Sor
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Date: 2010-11-24 08:47 am (UTC)