We’re tired, we’re broken, but we’re back.

Well… we’re back. What I’m feeling right now is a strange mixture of sadness at leaving our vacation behind and happiness at being back at home with our cat and away from Greek internet connections. I already miss Greece, although we haven’t even entirely unpacked our bags. The sunshine and the good food, the mountains of strawberries that we ate, the landscape and the air. And the sea (which was very nice to look at and very, very cold to swim in)… in a landlocked place like Frankfurt, where all you ever see is the building on the other side of the street, the sea seems like a dream.

I don’t wish to seem ungrateful, Frankfurt has its charms too: we’ve eaten pizza and tried to assimilate all that we’ve missed on the internet during the last two weeks, we’ve cuddled Cat and Cat has given us headbutts. Life could be worse.

Now it’s late and I really should go to bed. So should Jonas. Look at this picture of a car while you wait for the next update.

We parked near this giant wall...

Canyons of Wood

Canyons of Wood

Today I finally submitted the short story I wrote a few weeks ago to a magazine. I’m really happy with how it turned out, and I hope it finds a good home. It means a great deal to me.

The photo has nothing to do with that, but it’s still pretty awesome. Trees just have the most amazing surfaces.

Reptiles, Amphibians & Dinosaurs

The Worm Ouroboros

We went to the zoo on Monday. The special part was that we managed (by accident) to get to the reptile house just after the animals had been fed. As a result, all those pretty reptiles were lying in plain sight in their cages and not doing a whole lot of moving, since their bellies were too full. A bunch of near-immobile, sleepy reptiles. Hell for herpetophobes. Heaven for photographers. Here is the flickr set.

What I Am Up To (And A Horse)

The Vanishing Horse
I haven’t been doing as much blogging as I want to lately, but that’s mostly because I’m keeping myself fairly busy by working on way too many projects at once.

For one thing I’ve been doing a lot of photography and am currently uploading the fruits of my work on Flickr whenever time permits. (Yes, Flicker has been shamefully neglected too.) Have a look over here.

Of course that’s not the main bulk of what I’m doing. Two bigger projects that are nibbling away at my blogging time are a short story that I’m editing and that will hopefully soon be sent out to various magazines and the graphics for Jonas’s next flash game (and that’s all that I’m saying on that subject, seeing that he hasn’t announced anything yet).

And that’s what I’m up to. Blogging will resume soon, I hope. Rest assured that I haven’t forgotten about the Twilight Experiment and other than that there are several reviews of, how shall I say, works of greater literary merit in the pipeline. And game reviews. And recipes. And lots of photographs. And the cat. You can always write about Cat.