Orange cat

20080116

White berries

These ghostly white berries caught my eye, but I don't know what they are.

20080112

Yellow house

In light and shadow.

In absentia
20080122

Lane

A bit of a shame about the unphotogenic fence.

In absentia
20080122

Precision

Seen on scaffolding that's put up to show the outlines of buildings that are to be constructed. It's a part of the process to get a building permit.

In absentia
20080120

Untitled III

Something's growing...

In absentia
20080122

Phone booth, again

Anyone here remember the phone booth?

In absentia
20080122

Self-portrait with espalier

In absentia
20080122

Feline persuasion

Posted in absentia
20080122

Sheep in the afternoon

A couple of little lambs in the group.

20080122

Two gnomes

I find the one on the left just a wee bit scary. How about you?

20080120

Cabbage patch

Wirsingkohl aka savoy cabbage. Happily growing in January.

Those tubes in the background are part of the conveyor belt for rocks for our local cement plant.

20080120

Gilded

The sun was out briefly this morning and it was beautiful.

20080119

Play

These children were having a merry time in the Brugg Altstadt..

20080117

Modern in Villigen

The concrete block house is what I call it. It appeals to me. The bee house is next door.

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And because today is the one-year anniversary of this blog, I give you this:


:-) I thank you for your visits and comments. It has been a truly wonderful experience to "meet" you and to share Villigen with you all.

20080114

For the sake of the truth

There's modern that I like, there's modern that I don't like but can appreciate, and then there's the third category. Neumarkt Brugg has been going strong since 1975.

By the way, for another view of the building in yesterday's post, see my overflow site:
Modern, from a different angle

20070414

Modern

There is the occasional modern building in Brugg...

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Birdhouse 84

There are lots of birdhouses on trees in the vicinity of the Aare in Brugg. I stumbled upon a cluster of them near the old town today. Here's number 84.

I've recently started to read a book called Das Wasserschloss, about this general area where the three rivers, the Aare, the Reuss and the Limmat come together. Brugg is the entry point of the Aare to the confluence, while Villigen/Stilli is roughly the exit point. I'll try to do some posts based on what I read.

20080114

The fronts of the houses

An overexposed photo, but it'll have to do. These are the fronts of some of the buildings in yesterday's image. I think they're mixed-use for the most part, with businesses downstairs and apartments upstairs. Römerturm, on the right, is a restaurant.

An aside: For the longest time, like many others, I wondered why '4' was written as IIII on most clock faces rather than as IV. Now with the WWW and search engines, I've found this page which provides a lot of information, if not a simple answer:
To IV, or not to IV

20070409

The Aare in Brugg II

Yet another shot of the river -- rather the bank of the river -- taken from the old bridge in Brugg. These houses in the Altstadt (old town) are built directly at the edge, on the limestone gorge (for want of a better word) walls. There's no clear access to the water that I can see, so I wonder why they weren't built a little further away.

Related post:
The Aare in Brugg

20080112

Compensated mangoes

In the little section of the Blogosphere that I frequent, awareness of the impact on the environment of people's activities and choices seems to rather high. I've been trying to reduce my own impact (trying being the operative word here), at least educate myself about the sources of the food I eat, and things I buy. The labelling in Switzerland is very helpful in this regard -- though I have found mistakes occasionally -- and recently I started noticing these airplane symbols on some of the products at the Coop supermarkets. They've established a foundation (claimed to be the first one in CH) with CHF 1.5 million (about USD 1.4 million at today's rate) to offset the carbon dioxide emissions caused by such things as company employees' business travel, home delivery service operations and the transport of foodstuffs. Link to their website (in German).

Do you look for similar programs where you shop?

20080111

Excursion: Brunnen

A gorgeous day, finally! A short trip (4 hours, all told) to Brunnen in Kanton Schwyz on the Vierwaldstättersee, aka Lake Lucerne. A rather poor photographic memento of the day.

20080110

Stadtbibliothek

Another one for the "old and the new" series. An iron sculpture at the public library in Brugg.

20080108

Circa five minutes

Später = later. Sometimes, even Swiss trains are late.

20080108

The gossipers

A few of the residents of the henhouse.

20080106

Rainbow

A gap in the clouds produced this rainbow. Photographed from my kitchen window.

20080106

The Aare in Brugg

The Aare as seen from the old bridge in Brugg, pictured here.

20080105

Transplant

Alpaca. Technically not in Villigen (Villigen has a llama farm) but in a neighboring village about 3 km away.

20080103

Waiting in the wings

The Amilcar last seen here in July. I went over to chat with the owner today and he confirmed the make. This one was built in 1928 and has been restored almost completely.

20080103

Vandalism in Baden

A broken window at a home furnishings shop in Baden. The sign reads: Our gifts are so coveted that people want to shop even when we're closed!

20071231

Chimney

Happy New Year!

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