Notebook

Look at what I've just received from my sister: A lovely note book, with my name on it, and cats and birds... Thank you so much, Mano!

Why birds?

You already know two of my assistants, but there are three more. They have breakfast with me every morning, while the cats are in the garden, or in my bed.

Yesterday, the girls were really cute, so I had to make a picture. The boy has nothing to do with all this girlie stuff, he was on my other shoulder. The yellow one likes toasts, while the cinnamon one (in front) likes tea...

Helping Hand Award

Rosemary of Rosemary'Blog Spot has surprised me with an Helping Hand Award!

This award is meant to encourage and uplift others in the blogging world.

Here is how it works;

select 10 bloggers,

5 you consider your Helping Hand

and then Pay it Forward to 5 additional new bloggers, in support and encouragement for their efforts.

My helping hands would be:

JoWynn, for her support, and her embroidery skills,

Wurzel, for her friendship and beautiful garden,

Nikkipolani, for her food, cats and taste for good life

Lisa, for Luna and her beautiful garden

Kerri, for the colors she puts in our life

My Pay Forward would be:

Aiyana, who makes me discover cactii

The Ginger Darlings, because I love their word,

Neki, always full of good idea,

Annica, who inspires me for embroidery,

Arlee who pushes me behind my comfort zone.

There would be many more candidates, very difficult to make a choice...

Valencia, City of Arts and Sciences

The last pictures from Valencia.

Some random pictures. The buildings seem to be covered with ceramics. The effect of sun, water and ceramics is wonderful.

Valencia - Oceanografico

Let's go to the City of Arts and Sciences of Valencia, to the Oceanografic park.

We spent half a day in the Aquarium. Sadly, my camera would not work properly inside. That is a shame because they have several huge aquariums, with tunnels there. If you happen to go to Valencia, you must visit it.
Anyway, the outdoor buildings are worth the sight:

This is the aviary:


The following pictures are from the park

More pictures here.

Valencia - Ciudad

Picture heavy!
Here are a few pictures from the "old" Valencia.

Post office

Ayutamento

Plaza de la Virgen

Cathedral

The market

and the roof inside

In front of the market

All my pictures of the Ciudad are here.

If you want to see more about the traditional dresses, go here.

Giggles hat

Thank you for your comments on Valencia pictures. I've prepared some more posts for this week. It is so much fun to share this with you: in the first place, I wanted to go there after reading a post in another blog. So it is a kind of pass along :-)



Since the beginning of 2009, and especialy during the snow fall, I've had some time to do long postponed knitting. I had seen this pattern a few months ago. I had some left over of the Noro knittings I made recently, and did not want to keep them unused for ages. On the other hand, I had only a few yards of each left. So this was the perfect project, as it requires variegated thread.

It is a pattern by Terry Liann Morris, a sailing knitter. She has a yahoo group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/holidaymysterygifts/ and a web site http://www.liannoriginals.com/

Valencia - Botanic Garden

This post is picture-heavy...
The botanic garden is in the middle of Valencia. For us, it looked quite exotic. We have been wondering all the plants there. Mainly because they grow taller here than in France.

More pictures here.