Posted in Travel on March 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Scenes from the organic market
(Sienna look more Olives!!)
Organic Wines and Juices. There were a lot of homemade organic wines.
Lots of wild greens
and look!! Fresh Nettles. How I am craving Spring Nettles- Soup and Pie and Nettle / Garlic Mash Potatoes!
Posted in Family on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Food and recipes, Travel on March 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For those of you wondering the fruit and vegetable street markets are not comparable to our farmers markets. They are not farmers selling their produce but r traders that sell the produce. It is often imported. At the larger ones their is often a stall for toilet paper and kitchen paper and other household supplies, [...]
Posted in Family on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
photographed by a 5 year old.
I just uploaded all the photos from Zoe’s camera to my computer as she wanted to print a few out.
Here is a sampling… They really sum her up. She loves her babies; Lolly, Maia, Hardhead, Nothing, and Big Baby!!
Notice the microphone in this one. Making music has been a favorite [...]
Posted in Random on March 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This post has nothing to do with St Patricks Day! Which goes unnoticed here in Greece!
I just discovered…
KIDDIE RECORDS
At Kiddie records you can download vintage kids records and books from the Golden Age of Kids Records which was the mid forties through the early fifties. Taken from their website “Many of these recordings were extravagant Hollywood [...]
Posted in Family on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by a 5 year old
Remember to take care of people, enjoy the love, there is enough for everyone.
don’t war
don’t kill
don’t use guns
don’t kill people
Remember there is a world, an earth where we love every aniamal, where it can be free in the future and feel loved and cared for.
Remember that we must take care of [...]
Posted in Food and recipes, Travel on March 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Posted in Family, Random, Travel on March 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve always had a strange fascination with hobos, specifically the rail riding hobos of the Great Depression era. I did a quick search trying to find some pictures for Zoe as she seems to be picking up my fascination and found out some interesting things…
Did you know that there was a Hobo Code of Ethics? [...]
Posted in Family, Nature Study, Travel, books on March 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As we are still dealing with jetlag (awake after midnight and asleep in the late morning) we have been making no big plans, just seeing where the day takes us while trying to get into some kind of routine…school work, reading (IdriREAD we are reading Finn Family Moomintroll (which I highly recommend), and violin practice. We also [...]
Posted in Family on March 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From this
to this
(Calendula officinalis)
On our first nature walk here in Athens we spotted lots of faamiliar friends… nettles, chickweed, [...]
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