look at that book!

ok, i want to read this book. as in this exact book. or more like, watch this book and listen to that voice. absolutely stunning. especially if you, like me, are fascinated by papercut art.

apparently this has worked its way around blog world lately, but i only now discovered it via little monarch. enjoy!

passing by

pumpkins. which makes me think about pies, soups, plain, good food. i love pumpkins.

when we walk home from the kindergarten we pass the neighbor's open barn, where his pumpkins are drying. the kids love to climb them. i love to look at them, kids and pumpkins.

a couple of weeks back i walked by alone, and they just looked amazing in the golden afternoon light.i forgot about these photos, but came across them today. mmmmm, i think we need some pumpkin soup tonight.

wishing you a wonderful weekend.

seeing beauty

today i am guest blogging on a new simple something. when shokoofeh asked me to contribute to her beautiful blog, i felt really honored. it's such a peaceful, awesome place to be. never fails to please the eye, and i always leave feeling that the world is indeed a beautiful place.

corner view - on the local menu

this is kunafah, kanafe, knafe... sweet child has many names. and sweet it is. it's a traditional arabic pastry made of cheese inside pastry dough and rolled in threaded, orange-colored sugar "strings". you eat it fresh and still warm. and it's absolutely yummy.

for more lovely local treats, visit the sweet jane of spain daily

as the sun sets

i came home and the loveliest smell filled the air. i looked around and found that the apple tree in the front yard is in full bloom. smelling crazy awesome. and it looked just gorgeous, there in the late afternoon light as the sun was setting. so weird to be met by this smell in the fall. or what we call fall down here. this smell, not to mention the sight, which i associate so deeply with spring.

but, let's continue to something really important: the winner of last weeks vintage botanical print giveaway is the sweet ritva of lumetta. congratulations!

i must admit this giveaway thing took me by surprise. i totally felt like everyone should win and wish i had enough prints to do that. because i really appreciate all of you so very much. i love the comments and all the feedback that i get from you guys. so, i will soon be back with another giveaway.

and ritva, please send me an email to trinsch@gmail.com with your snail mail address

it was a good one

thank you for all the nice comments to my previous post. i was a bit overwhelmed by dirty laundry and a sick family. but boy, did i let go this weekend..., and yes, it felt good!

of course some laundry was done, a guest room organized and there was some cleaning and tidying up here and there. but mainly it was just one of those easy going weekends, where you go by the flow.

which meant plenty of dirt digging in the garden, relaxing in bright sunshine by the sea, watching tiny flames by the fire and listening to the soothing sounds of big blue waves rolling over beach pebbles. because all those things are just about the most calming and peaceful things i can imagine.

and topped off with massive amounts of freshly squeezed juice from the new clementines in the garden, i think we're all ready and set for a new week.

ps: there's still time to enter the giveaway. i will pick and announce the lucky winner tomorrow.

letting go

i think we're on a mend. still reading, watching and resting a lot around here, and i am pretty sure it will be another quiet weekend. i am hopelessly behind. i have work to do, a house to clean, piles and piles of dirty laundry, a guest room to prep for my parents (yay!), and snail mail to send that should have been sent out a long time ago. and then of course i have started to think about christmas. not to mention all the blog posts i am longing to read.

yes, we celebrate christmas in this culturally mixed house. just after chanukka. usually in denmark, in which case i don't really decorate around the house, since we will anyway leave when it gets close and serious. but this year we're staying home. and it might be the holy land, but it sure is hard to get the christmas groove going. i know i will miss it, and that i will be slightly sad not to be "home" for christmas, so i am thinking i need to get this house ready for christmas by the first advent.

so what was i saying? oh, yes, i'm behind. with everything, but i hope i can be zen about it and relax a bit with the rest of the guys. they are all more or less still recovering. and i kind of need to recover too. at least mentally. this florence nightingale thing gets pretty frustrating in the end. it's not that i mind letting go of work and plans. but the problem is, that work and plans don't always agree. and thus, a lot of stress builds up while you sit there holding a sick child and think of all the things you should or could have been doing. or when you stare at a computer screen, completely blank because you didn't sleep much last night, but there's work that should be done. in fact it should have been done yesterday.

at least that's how it seems to be for me. having a sick family is a great lesson in letting go. i am trying...

and so, with perfect timing, i started my weekend now. because of that little strange detail, that we have weekends on fridays and saturdays. i'm still not used to that after seven years, but it sure comes in handy with an early start right now.

wishing you a happy weekend.