Sunday Snippets and Writing on Walls

I love shooting street art and graffiti, so when I heard about Cheryl's Writing on Walls meme I knew it was going to be right up my alley. For my first week I offer this segment of the wall outside famed muralist Rami Meiri's Tel Aviv property (click here to see more of this amazing wall). I love the way all of the artists overlap and work within and in combination with each other to create a giant collaborative riot of color.

And now for the snippets...

• Maya spent most of the week home sick so other than too much tv watching and a lot of snuggles on the couch not much got done
• She was finally feeling better yesterday so we spent the afternoon wandering around the flea market in Jaffa (long on character, short on quality), eating ice cream, and then walking down the beachfront promenade to our favorite Tel Aviv beach bar.
• It was happy hour.
• We love happy hour.
• There was also a baby's birthday party going on. A bar, even a family-friendly one, seems like a strange location for a baby's party but hey, the food and drinks are good so why not.
• After all, we go there with our kids too, and have since they were babies themselves.
• While in Jaffa we came across a ridiculously large flock of pigeons.
• They looked quite sneaky.
• I think this is why...

So what's on your snippet list this week?

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Sunday Snippets - Lunar Eclipse

(Phew, what a relief to be back again - unless you caught my rants on Twitter and Facebook you probably didn't realize but I was locked out of my Google account for most of the weekend after they mistakenly disabled it! No gmail, no blog, no reader, no nothing! Let's just say it wasn't pretty... Thankfully my very stubborn and quite the genius husband finally found a way to get me back in yesterday before I became homicidal, but it was touch and go there for a while...)

Now for the snippets...

• We spent yesterday afternoon down by the beach in Tel Aviv.
• Okay to be precise we spent most of the afternoon in our favorite family-friendly beach bar, but both before and after we ogled the surfers taking advantage of the amazing eclipse-induced waves that were rolling in, bigger than any I've seen in Tel Aviv.
• The above picture doesn't do them justice, but if you look at how ragged the horizon line looks you'll get a sense of what the sea was like that day.
• You can also tell that the locals aren't used to waves this big (or am I supposed to say gnarly or something?) because many of the surfers seem to have spent an inordinately large amount of time getting knocked head over heels into the stew.
• Which makes grabbing that winning shot a real challenge - I never did catch the perfect combination of rows of killers waves with a lone rider streaming by, every time I thought I had they wiped out!
• We missed most of the actual eclipse, too many tall buildings were blocking the way. 
• I didn't mind that much since I caught the last one.
• We did see a little bit of it on the drive home though.
• We also bumped into a college friend and his wife on the beachfront promenade. That was fun, since it's been twenty years since I've seen them.
• A certain child's behavior when meeting such friends was particularly ratty, but her spiking a high fever today probably explains why she was struggling more than usual yesterday.
• Looks like tomorrow will be an at-home day for us. I see a lot of snuggles on the couch in my future. That's okay, I don't mind :).
• Oh, and I'm not allowed to take any photos, but the other one is sporting a brand new set of braces on his teeth (top only). He suddenly looks so much older. I swear he was just born last week, where does the time go?

So that's my list, what's on yours this week?

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Sunday Snippets - 20 Nov 2011

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Cosmos on Society6

I love how this looks like a tiny self-contained universe, at least to me

• Oh my god, Thanksgiving is this week.
• I am hosting 24 people this Saturday and haven't even made a shopping list yet.
• Yes, we usually do Thanksgiving on the Saturday, since the day itself is just a regular workday. 
• Thank goodness everyone pitches in with the cooking.
• Still, I have an insane number of dishes to cook this week.
• Did I mention I'm also invited to another Thanksgiving dinner this week. Yup, two. One as a guest, one as a host.
• That's a LOT of food.
• Good thing I love stuffing and pumpkin pie.
• And turkey too.
• Actually, I love pretty much all Thanksgiving food. This holiday is a real favorite of mine.
• It's not going to cook itself though, which means I really MUST get to the grocery store soon!
• Which also means I need to finalize which side dishes I'm making already!
• I sold a peacock iPhone case the other day, too - don't you wish you were the lucky one about to receive this? (You can be you know, it's just a click away. Just sayin'...)
• Oh, and it's STILL raining. Four days straight. Very out of character. We need the rain, but still, wouldn't it be better if it just rained, say, from 2am-4am every night instead. I'd like that a whole lot better, wouldn't you?

So what's on your snippet list this week?

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Sunday Snippets - 13 Nov 2011

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Purple Haze (yes, that really is what it's called)

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• If you don't look where you are going when you're out shooting, bad things can happen
• If you don't look where you are going in the middle of a group of sharp iron sculptures, you just might go tush over teakettle over a stupid iron pigeon
• If you go tush over teakettle over a stupid iron pigeon, you will likely rip up your toe and gash the hell out of your shin (leaving you bleeding all over your new pants and wrecking your pedicure) but self-preservation will kick in in time and  you will remain upright. Sort of.
• And the pants didn't rip.
• Whew!
• More importantly, neither did the camera.
• BIG WHEW!
• Going straight from pigeon-bashing to a girlfriends brunch will help.
• So will the champagne you consumed there to celebrate passing your exam.
• Two days later you'll be left with nasty scabs and a huge swollen bruise, but will consider yourself very lucky.
• You will also be able to use said scary-looking bruise as an excuse to avoid exercise for a few days (hey, it hurts!). 

So that's what my weekend looked like in a nutshell. And, I finally got that broken down bicycles image off the top of the blog. My fanatical cyclist soldhiscarsohecouldbikecommute husband was practically having heart failure looking at it. He'll be much happier now.

What's on your snippet list this week?

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Sunday Snippets - 6 Nov 11

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Three weeks in a row, these snippets are becoming a habit. Anyone out there want to join in and do them with me?

• I tried very hard to buy my daughter a winter jacket this morning, with no luck whatsoever. After 30 minutes just trying to find parking in the first town I gave up and headed for an outlet mall not too far away. Got there and it was jammed too. Finally found parking, went in to find half the place undergoing renovations, and worse, not a single jacket to be found! Grrrrr...
• I did find two pairs of pants for myself though (and two more I'd have liked to have bought - note to universe - please drop a lot of money into my lap, thanks) so it wasn't a total loss, but still, no jacket.
• No pajamas for my son, either. Do 10 year old boys in Israel not wear pajamas? It's getting ridiculously hard to even find cheap sweatpants that he can use as pajama pants. What do these kids sleep in?
• I'm going to grab one of my own laptop skins off of my Society6 shop to glam my laptop up a bit. I'm thinking of this one. Which one would you choose?

Okay, enough snippets. Time to get off of my far too large derriere and go hit the exercise machine. Sadly, just dressing in workout clothing doesn't seem to be doing the trick ;)...

Humor me while I'm off exercising, tell me what's on your snippet list for this weekend.

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Sunday Snippets with a side of Chihuly

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Just because I get twitchy if I go too long without posting a photo...

Closeup of one of the Chihuly ikebanas on permanent display at the Litvak Gallery in Tel Aviv.

• Just in case they couldn't here me scream all the way in Outer Mongolia - I passed! I passed!
• It's NOT snowing here, and I'm barefoot and wearing a tank top. Sorry East Coasters.
• Seriously easy and seriously impressive appetizer, a real crowd-pleaser (made even better with my own homemade fig-balsamic jam). The downside - no leftovers ;).
• I have had a headache which veers between incapacitating migraine and just painful and annoying more days than not in past week. It is getting REALLY old. (Yes, I'm taking all the appropriate medications, they're not helping. I'm thinking it's the winning combination of stress and the changing seasons.)
• The 45 minutes I did on the elliptical machine made me really hungry. I should probably go eat something sensible before it gets worse and I go binge on crap.
• Anyone out there interested in sociology? This is a long but fascinating article on regional cultural divisions in the US.
• And this is pretty much the coolest landscaping project I've ever seen.

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So what's on your snippet list this week?

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