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Entries Tagged as 'Photos and Photography'

First Day Of School

September 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

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Atop Stephansdom (Saint Stephen’s Cathedral), originally uploaded by scottpartee.

Today was Maple’s first day of Kindergarten.

I simply can’t go into what we went through to find a spot for her, because there aren’t enough tables left [...]

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Tags: Children, The · Life · Photos and Photography · Vienna

Jerry Lebt! (Jerry Lives)

July 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Jerry Lebt!

Originally uploaded by scottpartee.

I saw Jerry Garcia on the U1. He seems to have kicked smack and lost some tonnage. His German was really good, too!

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Tags: Music · Photos and Photography · Vienna

Eating Fresh Sea Urchins

June 16th, 2007 · 2 Comments

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Eating Fresh Sea Urchins, originally uploaded by scottpartee.

We caught them, Theo cut them open, and dressed them with olive oil and lemon. They opened up a bottle of ouzo, which went perfectly with the clean, [...]

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Tags: Food and Cooking · Greece · Photos and Photography · Travel · flickr stream

Maple’s Third Birthday Party

June 8th, 2007 · 6 Comments

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Maple’s Third Birthday Party, originally uploaded by scottpartee.

We celebrated Maple’s third birthday in Greece.
We packed some party supplies so that we could have a little fest for her to celebrate the special day. We brought [...]

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Tags: Children, The · Greece · Photos and Photography · Travel

The World’s Best Toast

May 12th, 2007 · No Comments

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Originally uploaded by scottpartee.

This is a photo of the world’s best toast. I made it myself. How do you make it? Easy:

1. Go to Lesvos, in Greece, very near Turkey.

2. Stay in Molyvos (Mithymna) and rent an awesome house just down the cobble-stone path from [...]

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Tags: Greece · Modern Nomad · Photos and Photography · Travel

Maple’s First Ice Cream

April 19th, 2007 · 3 Comments

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Maple & Molly Get Ice Cream from Fratelli’s, originally uploaded by scottpartee.

Sure, it was sugar and lactose free. But it was ice cream. Maple will tell you so.

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Tags: Children, The · Photos and Photography

In mir steckt viel drin!

November 27th, 2006 · No Comments

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In mir steckt viel drin!, originally uploaded by scottpartee.

I like to translate it as “there is lots stuffed up in me!”

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Tags: General · Photos and Photography · Vienna

Serious serious

November 20th, 2006 · No Comments

Maple: standing by computer desk There’s some serious serious uploading to Flickr going on!

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Tags: Children, The · Photos and Photography

Bad Branding at Flickr

November 1st, 2006 · 4 Comments

Flickr’s new branding decisions grate on my nerves.

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Tags: Geek · General · Photos and Photography

Test Of New Cameraphone

October 20th, 2006 · No Comments

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Test Of New Cameraphone, originally uploaded by scottpartee.

New cameraphone isn’t too bad, I must say. Now I must turn on the “split billing” and migrate to a single-handy configuration. Yes, it’s aboaaldanakda. And yes, it’s [...]

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Tags: General · Photos and Photography · Vienna

Namaste!

September 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

Namaste!

Originally uploaded by scottpartee.

Maple’s new bedtime yoga routine captured on film!
She has a “yogan” book and her mama as a role model and, so far, it gives her a lot of giggles. She even has her stuffed animals doing yoga.

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Tags: Children, The · Photos and Photography

“I smell something stinky”

September 16th, 2006 · 1 Comment

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"I smell something stinky", originally uploaded by scottpartee.

Maple and I were kicking it at the homestead, and I lay on my back on the sofa with my arm around her while she recited for me [...]

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Tags: Children, The · Photos and Photography

Tourists

August 4th, 2006 · No Comments

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Tourists, originally uploaded by scottpartee.

I’ve added the ability to post giant photos here. Does it break anything for you?

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Tags: Children, The · General · Italy · Photos and Photography

Venice

July 31st, 2006 · No Comments

Canal

Originally uploaded by scottpartee.

The first half (yup, I said half) of our Venice pics are now on Flickr.

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Tags: General · Italy · Photos and Photography · Travel

Bratislava

July 22nd, 2006 · 3 Comments

Bratislava

Originally uploaded by scottpartee.

Our set of photos from our short trip to Bratislava are up on Flickr.
I’d definitely like to go back. The people seemed nice and the city was pretty cool, despite having been pretty thoroughly wrecked by communists and bad modernist architects and [...]

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Tags: Euroland · Photos and Photography · Travel