Forgive me, for it has been 5 months since our last blog post (this feels like confession). Instead of overwhelming people with the goings of the last 5 months in one post, I'm giving a little update here with some promises of posts to come with pictures, recipes and general zaniness.
In the months since we last posted, Gudrun finished her second photography course. We have come to find out that it is the best photography school in Belgium (thanks Mom and Dad for the Christmas money that paid for that). She finished the course receiving a very high grade and extremely encouraging words from her teacher. He told her that the portraits she did for one assignment were some of the best pictures taken by the entire class (and boy, is it a talented class) over the entire course. He commented that she really has a lot of potential, and she is (reasonably) very proud of that. She will be posting some of the pictures she took for the class over the next couple of days here.... so be ready for a deluge of photos.
I have been slacking off in the cooking department. I did buy about 7 new vegan cookbooks, and have tried a few recipes out from them. I think over the next few weeks, I will try to motivate myself to try more recipes and then review those recipes and the books they come from on here. So stay tuned for that.
We are also drinking green smoothies again. Man, I need more green in my life. I'm going to keep track of the new smoothies we drink and review them here. First on the docket for dinner tonight: kale, frozen berries, and banana (with some ground flax seed thrown in for pizazz). I'll let you know how that works out. :-)
I'm planning a trip this weekend with my friend Laura who just got a new camera. We're going to go to an abandoned castle (awesome! ....if we can get in), and I'm going to take some RAW photos, and try my hand at some HDR zaniness. Google-image "HDR" if you don't know what I am talking about. So some upcoming photos might be from yours-truly (if I can get anything good out of it).
Sorry again for the loooong lag in communication. Life got in the way. But check back over the next few days/weeks for all the promised updates!!
In the months since we last posted, Gudrun finished her second photography course. We have come to find out that it is the best photography school in Belgium (thanks Mom and Dad for the Christmas money that paid for that). She finished the course receiving a very high grade and extremely encouraging words from her teacher. He told her that the portraits she did for one assignment were some of the best pictures taken by the entire class (and boy, is it a talented class) over the entire course. He commented that she really has a lot of potential, and she is (reasonably) very proud of that. She will be posting some of the pictures she took for the class over the next couple of days here.... so be ready for a deluge of photos.
I have been slacking off in the cooking department. I did buy about 7 new vegan cookbooks, and have tried a few recipes out from them. I think over the next few weeks, I will try to motivate myself to try more recipes and then review those recipes and the books they come from on here. So stay tuned for that.
We are also drinking green smoothies again. Man, I need more green in my life. I'm going to keep track of the new smoothies we drink and review them here. First on the docket for dinner tonight: kale, frozen berries, and banana (with some ground flax seed thrown in for pizazz). I'll let you know how that works out. :-)
I'm planning a trip this weekend with my friend Laura who just got a new camera. We're going to go to an abandoned castle (awesome! ....if we can get in), and I'm going to take some RAW photos, and try my hand at some HDR zaniness. Google-image "HDR" if you don't know what I am talking about. So some upcoming photos might be from yours-truly (if I can get anything good out of it).
Sorry again for the loooong lag in communication. Life got in the way. But check back over the next few days/weeks for all the promised updates!!
