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Let's not mention I have been an elusive ninja, should we? Let's not point out Easter has been colder than Christmas this year (meteorological fact), should we? Let's also ignore the fact I am home feeling bleh the moment we have four days off and the sun is gloriously shining out there (icy cold but shiny and bright). Should we ignore that too?
Okay then. Let's just talk LIGHT. Yes. Welcome, welcome, we have missed you. Are you here to stay? Are you? Splendid.

Here are a few random snippets of light and reflections taken in the last couple of weeks. Even subway stations are beautiful right now.  
SPRING! Bring it on.

 

bottoms up

The city looking gorgeous under a blanket of snow is what we found after coming out of an all-day concert for little-known bands. Very strange this being at a gig marathon while there is light outside.

Beautiful but tricky snow. I ended up slipping on the snow/ice and landing on my derrière bike and all. Tail bone pain is not good, I am telling you. Clumsy ninja :)

hello winter and hello fellow internetters...

  

Hello. Let's try and keep this thing going, should we? By this royal "we" I obviously mean me.

It is winter. Properly. You all know. The interwebs are full of it. 

This post is far from original. Yet, I love this unedited winter telephotos. What I also really enjoyed very much was the calm muffled city bustle when I left the house early this morning.

my own private rear window

I have always been a big fan of Hitchcock's Rear Window. This time of the year I often think of it when I get home in the evening and, before turning the lights on, this is the view that greets me.

A beautiful theatre play going on at the other side of the canal. Dinner being prepared, books being read, hair being combed, pyjamas being put on... The below were taken on Thursday at 18:22, 18:53 and 22:47 respectively (and to be nerdily precise.) 

We are planning on watching the film one of these evenings too. Here are two stills of the set.

malenconia, heimwee, morriña, homesickness, saudade, mal du pays...

SUMMER BARCELONA from Pau García Laita on Vimeo.

I have no time to post the promised Portuguese & Mexican pics at the mo. However, I do not want to abandon this space for too long so here is a fab tilt-shift video that nearly made me cry yesterday. That nostalgic yearning sometimes, ei...

esos cielos otoñales...

More skies. 
I have not been doing much more than working, writing and observing lately. So here is what I have been seeing in the evening out of my living room window. 
I looooove those skies. I do not love the fact autumn (and by default winter immediately after) is on its way. But the skies, the skies I adore.

 

Another two I just found. Also taken in Amsterdam (different bit of the city) in August.

ay, autumn (+ belated tomareness)

Well, hello there. 
Should I say it? Go on then: "long time, no ninja". Ah, this ninja never tires of repeating herself.

Right, what has happened lately? Lots and not much at the same time, I suppose. Like in everyone else's life, right? Ups, downs, ins and outs. I had a pretty rough beginning of the year and it has taken its toll in many ways but it is onwards and upwards and... What do you know? Autumn is already knocking at the door. That sneaky bugger.

Here is some proof.

I have also been on hols in Mexico lindo y queridooooooo, which I seriously needed and which involved attending a friend's wedding, which was a blast.

Just before I left though, I got a lovely package from a lovely knitting geologist from Italy. It was the corner to corner tenugui. Unfortunately I was packing a rucksack and had no time right then but I have sent my pressies on now. Joanne's tomare tenugui made it safely to the north of the Netherlands this week to a fluttery, airy, light household.
On it goes, around the world.

Thanks so much again. I loved the parcel. The only thing is that being the stressed out ninja that I was before the hols, I never properly posted about it. Here it is now. Better late, 'ey.

der himmel über barcelona

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cloud formations, aeroplane trails, the moon (day and night!), planet and balloon alignments  (Jupiter and Venus on Sunday evening + a fab tile card (I have yet to credit, watch this space.)

icy wonderdam

Finally some icy pics. Hoorah. I was planning on posting them much earlier (they were taken a fortnight ago) but hey, ninja time flies.

Will you look at the shadows everyone is casting (on a frozen solid canal!) It was gorgeous. Overexposed and unedited telephotony does not do it justice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was just a quick snap moment from this privileged vantage point (not my apartment). I love the sound of klunen (walking on skates off the ice) on the city cobblestones.
We also stayed well clear of the winter wonderland circus that formed in the city centre and headed to the North of Amsterdam. Following pics taken around/on the Ij.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next post, Barcelona in February. Winter sun from another corner of Europe.