By Artur Ciesielski | Hygge , Phoenix
In the late Fall and Winter, we get flood irrigation only once per month. Last time we received it, it rained, this time too, the streets were wet and the yard flooded really well. It came in the late evening and I got a chance to take a photo as the rain sprinkled onto the […]
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An evening with Rupik and Maya on the patio, enjoying some wine, must and the wonderful evening weather.
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Each spring there is lots anticipation until the Elm in our front yard greens. In 2015, I noticed the first signs of leaves on February 16. It’s now February 18th and only a smidgen of green has shown. It’s a warm mid-winter, with record highs so, I think, it’s a bit unusual that it is […]
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Just playing around the front yard with the new Fuji x70 I got yesterday.
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I love this time of the day – the morning. Especially when the sun is high enough to throw its light through the sheers into our living room. It’s a perfect welcome to a new day.
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When I first had a glass of Copain Pinot Noir at The Windsor a local restaurant, that had the wine on tap, I got enamored with this beautiful wine. It was only after 2 years that I finally got a chance to taste more of their offerings at the winery itself in Healdsburg, CA overlooking the […]
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Two more roses. One and the only one so far in peach and a grouping of white roses of which there must be a few dozen.
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A few moments in the day or Rupik and Maya. Sleep in – after having food and a poop. In the afternoon dig a hole and run around. Get washed. Rupik watching as Maya gets washed.
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For last year I created a 2014 In Preview. A selection of things I wanted to achieve or do in 2014. Some I did, other I did not. It’s a rough guideline, a direction rather than hard fast rules to abide by. I haven’t looked at that list except for now as 2015 comes to […]
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When the lush green, neatly cut as if a piece of tiles art in hundreds of hues of green, ground came into view the Lufthansa plane was just barely off the ground and seconds from landing. Shaking and rattling from the turbulence the small plane, only half full, approached the wet runway. It overran its […]
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I love the sound of propeller driven aeroplanes, the kruki, birds chirping, and occasional car driving by in the distance, the hows of a cow, the sway of trees, the sway of wheat in a field it gives me peace, solace, a sense of being grounded – of the earth the place and space.
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