Late Afternoon Saturday

Yes, all right, it's obviously learn-to-work-the-camera-before-you-go-to-central-Europe weekend. Same neighborhood, new light (and different season, below).

Saturday Afternoon

New Camera

A few pictures with my new camera. The exposure was long and I have no tripod (and my hands always shake), so there is some blurring.

Saturday Night

Maranello. All I want for Christmas.

An Afternoon Walk

Switzerland Reservations

We are staying in this hotel in Zurich and this hotel in Lucerne. We were considering the Palace Hotel in Lucerne, but after Adam and I discussed the end that came to Marie Antoinette during her tenure in a palace, and given Jaime's proclivity to say "let them eat cake" in her day-to-day life, we decided such a reservation would be courting trouble.

Also, we did some research on the NYE celebration in Zurich. It looks like the Swiss enjoy the same sorts of things on December 31 (or 31.12.09) as we do.

...awake...

Insomnia is the great thief of joy. With its concealed burglar's toolkit of latent traumas and untethered energies, it sneaks in when only you are awake and robs awe from grandeur, comfort from the downy warmth of bed, peace from the body at rest and ease from the innocent mind.