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I planned to show you some new photos from a little trip I went on last weekend.

But I forgot to tell the man at the lab that I needed the negatives scanned, not only developed. I'll have them on Monday.

Until then, I give you old photos from december (the good thing is, they don't look like 'winter photos', so they don't spoil the spring mood that's all around these days). And I wish you a sweet weekend flooded with sunlight.

Take care!

CAN FRAMIS

These shots are from a beautiful new museum in a restored factory building in Poblenou.

I've only seen it from the outside so far. It was closed when we stumbled across it, during a bikeride around Christmas. I hope to visit the inside soon, and to take more photos.

I loved the colours and textures of the concrete walls and the birch trees.
There were no other visitors and the ambience was calm and somehow exotic.
The plants and trees in the garden are different from the ones you find in other parks around town.
I'll show you more when I go back there.

See you soon!

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Days are running by so fast!
And these last ones have been feeling like spring already, so it seems even more that time is flying.

The weather is completely crazy, today we had 20 degrees I think. We walked to the beach, there were people in t-shirts eating ice cream, and my face felt warm and almost a bit burned when I got home in the afternoon. That bright sun felt strange but really good.


Obviously I haven't done half of the things that I wanted to do this week, but some of them, and some others too:

· knitting a pair of socks (still finishing the first one)

· more baking:
·· chocolate financiers (fast and relly impressive),
·· hearty walnut and fig cookies inspired by this recipe,
·· banana spice muffins (they make your kitchen smell so good),
·· Nigel Slater's cake of roasted hazelnuts, muscovado and coffee from "Tender Vol.2" (haven't tasted this one yet, it's still warm).
I would love to take photos of all those things and show them to you, but my kitchen is so dark. they always turn out yellow (the photos).

· new shoes! reduced price, unexpected. i'm so happy with them.

· new music: new Decemberists' album, new Iron and Wine's album, new fantastic Fleetfoxes' song.

· lots of flickr browsing and some beautiful and inspiring new favourites.


Good night!
I'll try to post some more new photos in the next days.

cake and dispersion

Do you know that feeling? When you have some free time and you want to do so many things and you don't know where to start and in the end you do nothing?
I'm trying to get better at organizing and enjoying my free time.


And I have finally been baking a lot again these days:

· Molly's ginger muffins. I used Kefir instead of buttermilk. They're fantastic and we finished them in one day.

· Alice Medrich's brownies from "Pure Dessert" (my favourite brownie/chocolate cake recipe. easy to make and not too heavy on butter and eggs).

· Malin's Lussekatter. I didn't want to wait until next Christmas. And I'm glad I haven't. I loved the saffron taste and colour.

. this poppy seed lemon cake. it's quick to make and easy and sooo good. I used coconut oil for the first time (instead of half of the butter) and it gives the cake a very subtle coconut flavour which I loved.

Any baking favourites of yours I should try??


And another question: I would like to put my negatives in order, I'm starting to lose control over them. I would love to hear your method or suggestions.

Thank you dears!!

Montpellier

La Promenade du Peyrou, in early december. Silent, grey and empty.

Today all the children in Spain receive presents from the "three Kings" (Magi?). If they have behaved badly, they get coal made of sugar.
My present was that my alarm clock didn't ring this morning and I accidentally overslept a little bit.
Less hours to work but much better mood.

I hope the new year has been treating you well so far.
Thank you for your comments on the last post! I love to read them and then to click to your blogs and discover new beautiful things.

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I hope your holidays have been (or are being) great.

I am really tired today, from eating and going to bed late with a full belly three days in a row.

But we had a nice sunny weekend, with bike rides around the deserted town (everybody was at home eating) in the afternoon, golden light and the Pentax around my neck. Pure happiness.

These photos are from our weekend in France a few weeks ago (the last photo is a reminder that I still have to get that poor camera fixed...).

fiestas fiestas

Merry Christmas to you all, and wonderful holidays with plenty of peace and quiet and joy and all kinds of good things.

golden

Finally some new photos on the way, from the only roll shot with my Pentax during the last weeks.
I wanted to share this one immediatly, I really like it. That's how the afternoon light looks like these days. So nice I sometimes forget the snow I use to dream of instead...

Have a sweet start into your weekend!

summer/winter

Serious lack of posts here these days, due to serious lack of time, and consequently of photos.

That's why you get some nice late summer photos today, which i got developed when summer was already over.
They don't seem very appropriate knowing that in Munich, where my sister lives, it's snowing today. I'm so jealous.
But these shots make me think of warm september days, which are a nice thing too.

And it's actually summer in some parts of the world, right?!

I hope you're having a nice Friday evening.

Thank you for stopping by and thanks for your nice comments on my last post.
(I'm still hiding my computer, but we're slowly forgetting, and I'm actually very brave and staying home alone this weekend!)

Mozartweg 10

My uncle and aunt live in this place.
It's a simple concrete construction from the 60s. There's nothing really special about it but it's so well made. Everything is in perfect shape although nobody has ever changed anything. The spaces are clean and well distributed, my aunt grows the best raspberries in their garden and during the afternoon, the light in the livingroom is pure magic.
And don't you love that flat concrete roof?

I want a garden too, one day. With a cherry tree.

And I hope you're having a good friday.

horses

I have quite a few more photos from Germany to show you; I'm a little behind with my photos and everything else lately.

These are from the day we went to visit our cousins who live on a farm. They have lots of horses.
I'm allergic and use to sneeze like crazy when I get near them, but I love their warmth, their colour and the noises they make.
And that they are so huge. Which also frightens me a little.
But "my" horse was 21 years old and as meek as a lamb. I took the photos so you don't get to see me riding. I wore a helmet and everything, very chic. I loved it.