tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68044285907475585982024-03-05T21:13:20.712-05:00Clyde in Virginia BeachUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804428590747558598.post-53586767901379965722013-10-11T21:45:00.003-04:002013-10-11T21:45:46.612-04:00Anana is home!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Oops... I forgot to write a farewell post for Clyde. But I sent him home, and he made it there safely with all of his souvenirs intact. And now Anana is home as well! Look at all the awesome stuff Miss M sent back with him!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Postcards! A patch and a bottle with prehistoric shark teeth from the Florida Aquarium! Gummi sea creatures (and other gummi candy)! A mug from the Sunken Garden! A pineapple glass! A Disney lollipop! Magnets! The decoupaged ampersand (with a page from an old French book, I might add)! A sketchbook from the Pier! A bag (totally obscured by other stuff) and pin from Busch Gardens! A shell keychain and some seashells! And of course the photo album, which is beautiful!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And... perhaps my favorite... my very own tree pendant! She makes these in all sorts of styles and I love them all and now I have one of my very own!!! Obviously I will be wearing it to work tomorrow... and the day after that... and the day after that... and basically forever.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804428590747558598.post-58835384201039535172013-09-05T10:39:00.002-04:002013-09-05T10:39:23.514-04:00Preparing for NaNoWriMo<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I do <a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/">NaNoWriMo</a> every year, and this year I have my story idea already picked out. I can't start writing until 12:01am on November 1, but I don't want to worry about forgetting any of my ideas, so I dedicated a notebook to keeping track of them:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My birthday was on Labor Day, so I'm a little late catching up with photos, but here we go!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was a very fun birthday! And I think Clyde had a lot of fun too. We don't have much time left together, so we'll have to have a lot of fun for the next couple of weeks!</span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We've had lots of people literally walk in, their jaws drop, and they go "wowwww..." I love going to work!!!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804428590747558598.post-68539828328228221952013-08-22T14:22:00.002-04:002013-08-22T14:22:45.261-04:00Finishing Touches<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, the new library is open, and I couldn't take photos at any of the big events, because I was working. But even though we're open, any new building has finishing touches to add for a while.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We discovered that people standing at the self-check-out stations were mistaking the slots for trash (like unwanted receipts, etc) for book returns. So I offered to add decals to make it clearer, and Clyde helped!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tonight, I'm teaching the FIRST library instruction class in the building! (I plan to make a big deal out of that when I retire someday.) Lots more fun things coming up soon...</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My favorite thing ever: the ray petting tank! You can see both of the main kinds<br />of rays in the tank: the littler, darker one is a cownose ray, and the larger, pale one<br />is an Atlantic ray... they like to come up the side of the wall and splash people!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Auuuugh, Clyde is being eaten! Eeeek!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is part of an exhibit that is a scaled-up model of the marsh!<br />The grass goes up into the ceiling.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804428590747558598.post-39138602226235314352013-08-03T10:14:00.002-04:002013-08-03T10:14:48.803-04:00New Office!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The library has successfully made the move into the new building, which means... <i>I have my own office</i>! I've never had my own office before. It's very exciting.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm also particularly excited about the standing desk (adjustable) in the back</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I chose the LotR desktop to inspire my greens-and-browns color scheme (forthcoming)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I also have my own book cart!!!</span></td></tr>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We are going to have SO MUCH FUN with my new office!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804428590747558598.post-50754921358903658922013-07-29T10:48:00.001-04:002013-07-29T10:48:20.540-04:00Jungle Golf<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Because we have an oceanfront, we obviously have mini-golf. Lots of it. But the best one by far is Jungle Golf. (I've taken friends there for two of my last four birthdays.) And we just so happened to have three free passes. (Fiance is an EMT and they saved the owner's... mom? I think?... so he gave them free game cards as a token of thanks.) So Cassy and Karen and I polished off our day at the beach with mini-golf!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Clyde helpfully goes after my ball...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Holding on to Cassy's ball while she waits for her turn</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cassy won (she was only one over par, which is 36) and Karen came in second. I got a 42 though, so I was still pretty happy.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804428590747558598.post-69371031531216901862013-07-29T10:43:00.002-04:002013-07-29T10:43:58.006-04:00Beach Day!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My friends Cassy and Karen came to visit this weekend, and we went to the beach for several hours, until it started to look like the storms promised by the weatherman were actually coming in. (They didn't for several <i>more</i> hours, but that was okay.)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cassy and Karen love Clyde! He made two new friends :)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Clyde and the ocean<br />(We had pretty big waves - for Virginia Beach - since there was a storm coming)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I got some pretty killer sunburn on my back. (I thought I had done my back, but I got distracted chatting and completely forgot about it... and I was sitting with my back to the sun most of the time we were there.) Ouch!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804428590747558598.post-1345610054557679022013-07-25T10:52:00.001-04:002013-07-25T10:52:22.539-04:00Iceland<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And after France, we went to Iceland! We flew into Keflavik, drove to Reykjavik, and stayed for two days, mostly wandering around Reykjavik. It was a brisk 55* F (a welcome change from the 80s F of Paris, and definitely better than the 90-100 F friends were getting at home!)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm 95% sure that's the Arctic Ocean. (It's not like they labelled it for us.)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Coca-Cola has this thing in other countries right now where they<br />put "share a Coca-Cola with" and names. Also, Coke in other countries<br />is made with real sugar, not HFCS. YUM.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Delicious sandwich for lunch. It was Thai-style, with chicken,<br />peanut sauce, cilantro, and mango.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Clyde and some krona, the currency of Iceland. (They accept Euro and<br />dollars in most places though.)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I got myself a new little friend: a puffin! He joined Clyde in my bag<br />on the way home.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So that was our trip! We had a great time, but it's always good to be home.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804428590747558598.post-9655122432865454792013-07-25T10:45:00.000-04:002013-07-25T10:45:17.887-04:00Paris (Part IV)<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And just a little bit more...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We went up to the Sacre Coeur for Bastille Day fireworks. It's not the Eiffel Tower spectacle, but I'm so glad we made that decision. People IN THE AUDIENCE had the handheld versions of the big-time fireworks, and they burst just overhead. It was the first time I can remember being IMPRESSED by fireworks. (I usually think it's just a really expensive way to annoy dogs, scare children, and create large crowds at otherwise pleasant parks.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Coming up next... Iceland!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804428590747558598.post-6828904177721226372013-07-25T08:26:00.005-04:002013-07-25T08:31:55.005-04:00Paris (Part III)<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And more!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the Montmartre Cemetery</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Also at the Montmartre Cemetery (do you see Clyde?)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the Moulin Rouge, right around the corner from our apartment</span></td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804428590747558598.post-1834107525980827022013-07-25T08:20:00.003-04:002013-07-25T08:20:35.295-04:00Paris (Part II)<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">More photos!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On the balcony to our apartment</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Looking off the balcony toward the Cafe les Deux Moulins<br />(the cafe from <i>Amelie</i>)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On the balcony, seen from the kitchen</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Trying on Fiance's beret... looking snazzy, Clyde!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It took a few tries to get it right...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This doesn't seem right either...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Maybe we should try again later, Clyde.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is the market from <i>Amelie</i>, where M. Collignon works.<br />We stumbled across it on our way back from the Bastille Day fireworks!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the women's yard at the Conciergerie (the prison where - among many others -<br />Marie Antoinette was held before her beheading)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">CREPES. Literally the best food in the world. We ate several. This one<br />happens to be miel (honey).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Eiffel Tower from Trocadero</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The most... ahem... family-friendly photo I took at the<br />Musee de l'Erotisme. Clyde was scandalized.<br />(Not by the wire corset sculpture. By... the rest.)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mmmm, strawberries, raspberries, melon. The freshest, most delicious<br />fruits I've ever eaten. They don't put waxes and sprays and whatnot<br />on their produce to make it look nice for a week. You just have to eat it<br />within two or three days, and you would anyway, because YUM.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">More to come...</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804428590747558598.post-11758736939989271962013-07-21T11:36:00.000-04:002013-07-21T11:36:26.309-04:00Clyde in ICELANDAnd now we're in Iceland! I wasn't feeling so hot this morning so I (& Clyde) missed out on going to the Golden Circle but we're still seeing Reykjavik. We ate WHALE! Tomorrow we should be going on a whale watching excursion before going to the airport to return home (where I promise to post a bunch of photos within the week!)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804428590747558598.post-76175554817885772852013-07-17T14:28:00.001-04:002013-07-17T14:28:16.464-04:00French Food<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I promise to post more about France when we get home... I'm taking more photos than I'm posting, I swear! But I wanted to stop in and make a note of the food here, because that's one of the things we were most looking forward to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">We just had sushi for dinner. It was delicious. I know... not French. But delicious. It's a lot like the sushi at home, but with better produce and a different kind of tuna (so it was a color you don't want your tuna to be at home, generally).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We arrived at 1pm (after 12 hours of travel, with driving to DC, flying to Iceland, switching planes and flying to Paris, most of which was not conducive to sleeping, and I don't handle plane landings very well - they make me feel sick - so I didn't take any plane/airport photos, and we napped when we got here). After the nap, we wandered around Montmartre to familiarize ourselves with the area, and had a lunch pieced together from the markets on our street. Lunch included the most amazing, flavorful strawberries & raspberries we've ever eaten:</span><br />
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Also, baguettes, cheeses, and roasted chicken. Then we watched some French TV, and had a dinner similar to lunch, then wandered around some more after dark. And I ordered a crepe (with Nutella, of course) and a Coke from the guy on the corner! (I was a French major and have never been to France before... the sense of accomplishment I got from this minor task was ridiculously awesome... not to mention, the crepe was AMAZING.)<br />
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<br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The good stuff starts tomorrow, with TRAVEL PHOTOS!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804428590747558598.post-74329266056754798052013-07-01T12:07:00.000-04:002013-07-01T13:08:02.459-04:00264<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is a shot I've been trying to get almost since Clyde arrived. Interstate 264 only runs from the Virginia Beach Oceanfront to the far side of Portsmouth, so it's very local! And I drive on it at least once a week, but most of the signs are not placed in such a way as to encourage stopping to take a photo safely. But I found this one by the sidewalk on the Oceanfront end!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804428590747558598.post-68372645694092233562013-06-16T22:33:00.001-04:002013-06-16T22:58:29.570-04:00Clyde Rolls for Initiative<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, Fiance and I are finally starting to play Dungeons & Dragons. We've talked about it several times over the years, and this time, I bought the books and an assortment of dice, plus some crafting supplies to use as battle grids. Clyde has been helping me write a campaign (and playing with the dice...):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you're curious, I got the mirrored tiles in the candle aisle at the craft store. They're 3/4 inch (which is smaller than the D&D usual, 1-inch). I found the <i>same exact</i> thing (a baggie of 15 3/4-inch mirrored tiles) in the mosaics aisle, for 3 times the price. Weird! The markers are those glass things you put in vases (or turn into glass marble magnets) that I've had around forever. I have lots of colors, so it works out nicely, to distinguish types of monsters, or which playing character is which. Also, bonus to the mirrored tiles: we can write on them with dry erase markers! The two on the far left have little symbols in green that are supposed to indicate fountains.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804428590747558598.post-74350668897773363082013-06-08T22:01:00.001-04:002013-06-08T22:01:16.628-04:00Bookmobile<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our new library was originally supposed to house the city's Bookmobile (and we have a space designed for it because it was in the original plans) but plans changed, and it won't live in our library. But, for some reason, it was parked on campus today when I showed up to work, so I took a photo of Clyde with it:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It wasn't open, as you can see, but I had never even seen it in person, so I thought it was pretty cool. That's the new library behind it. Maybe I'll be able to track the Bookmobile down when it <i>is</i> open, and we can see inside it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My family's company does the signs for the NASSC every year, so we get invited to their vendor/VIP kick-off event. I've never been, so I went this year.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A public art installation on one of the little sidewalks between<br />Atlantic Ave (which runs parallel to the shoreline) and the boardwalk</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">King Neptune! We are home to the Neptune Festival, and this statue<br />was built in 2005 in honor of some of the Kings of the festival.<br />That's a sea turtle under the King's left hand, and rays behind Clyde</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Norwegian Lady. In 1891, a badly damaged Norwegian ship ran aground<br />on a sand bar off our shore. Some VB men (in what is now the Coast Guard) braved the<br />raging storm to rescue the crew (they saved 8 of the 17 men).<br />A young boy walking on the beach found their figurehead washed ashore.<br />She was set up on the oceanfront as a memorial for the crew members who died.<br />For 60 years, she stood there, but Hurricane Barbara (in 1953) damaged her<br />beyond repair and she was removed. The Norwegian Shipping Association<br />(in Norway) heard about it and built two statues: one came here and took<br />the original figurehead's place, and the other stands in Moss, Norway.<br />Queen Sonja of Norway came here in 1995 to lay flowers at the Lady's feet.<br />We have sent Virginia Beach delegation to Norway to do the same.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Speaking of shipwrecks, this is some debris from another one,<br />displayed outside the Old Coast Guard Station</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This teeny tiny octopus "statue" is on the boardwalk railing<br />right next to the King Neptune statue.<br />He's my favorite little piece of public art in the whole city!</span></td></tr>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While I was standing next to King Neptune, I had several couples ask me to take their photo with him! They usually stand under the sea turtle because it gives you a great sense of proportion. (The King stands 34 feet tall!) They all were really apologetic but I told them, that's what I get for standing near the most impressive statue at the beach!</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Finally, I took a video of Clyde with the waves. See, we don't get real waves here. We have lots of surfers, but they can't do much with what we get, unless there's a hurricane (in which case, they still can't do very much because lifeguards and police tell them to come ashore). So these are pretty impressive, for us:</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804428590747558598.post-50980494247933514512013-06-02T17:58:00.001-04:002013-06-02T17:58:22.917-04:00Wedding Crafting: Bouquets<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For our wedding (next March) we are having no flowers... just wire-and-crystal "flowers." Fiance set up this rig and is working on making several of the "sprigs" today. Clyde, of course, is helping!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One completed sprig<br />(see how it's twisted wire, with a tiny Swarovski crystal on the end on the left?)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He folds the wire in half, adds the crystal at the bend, hooks it onto the hook at the bottom left,<br />clamps it into the vice on the right (behind Clyde) and cranks until it's done!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A wider shot of the whole rig (the tiny tin to the left of Clyde is full of<br />tiny green Swarovsky crystals!)</span></td></tr>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">More photos of this definitely to come when we start combining all the sprigs into bouquets (and smaller ones into boutonnieres!) </span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6804428590747558598.post-22919153752819950752013-05-31T18:14:00.000-04:002013-05-31T18:14:05.870-04:00Norfolk Excursion<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Norfolk and I have a deal. I stay out of it; it doesn't make me get lost. But I had a health sciences librarian certification thing to do at EVMS (Eastern Virginia Medical School) which just so happens to be in Norfolk. I promised Norfolk it would be a quick in-and-out situation; I would take the most direct route from the interstate, and get right back on it at the end of the day. In return, Norfolk allowed me to know exactly where I was the whole time I was there!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was a two-day class, so after a successful trip to Norfolk yesterday, I got a little cocky today and thought I could stop by a few neat places to take photos. Norfolk guffawed heartily at this plan, and conjured a combination of traffic and parking situations that made those plans impossible to carry out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">TL;DR version: I didn't get all the photos I wanted in Norfolk. But here's what I did get:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the many beautiful churches in Norfolk; this one was walking distance<br />from EVMS, so I strolled past at lunch</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Remember the Virginia Beach dolphin? Here's a Norfolk mermaid!<br />I know it's hard to see Clyde under her arm, but it's even harder to see<br />the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus">Caduceus</a> on her - ahem - chest</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Okay, this was my last-ditch effort to get a photo of the ENORMOUS<br />Carnival cruise ship (what looks like a building on the right)<br />in the port next to Nauticus (a museum). I tried to park<br />in the roundabout in front of Nauticus, but there was security guiding people through<br />because of all the cruise passengers, so I couldn't stop.<br />So this was from a red light, through the back of my car, further down the road.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm sure I'll find another time to go into Norfolk and get photos of the other things I wanted to see (most notably, the battleship at Nauticus, and some of the neater Norfolk mermaids).</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1