Peace, love, walks and books for 2018

I took the first little walk of the year.
Viva 2018, I hope for a year with more peace...
and peace of mind, to read books, and walks,
and do vegan outreach and just enjoy my little life.
Hope you have a lovely year too!

Walked to my mom's favorite little trail
aptly named Little Eden

Little Eden trail, in the Florida canyon hiking trails

Dry but hopeful California sky

Little Eden trail, my mom's favorite

Frau Kitty celebrates the new year by her tree

Feliz Año Nuevo from Frau Kitty (and Herr Gato, he is somewhere else)

Cheers with green tea to 2018

Adiós 2014

2014 was a great year even if...
I got whooping cough, missed so much work
still, I am thankful to be alive and well
Enjoying the last minutes of the year
with my mom visiting and resting at home
with my 2 bestests friends ever, Herr Gato and Frau Kitty

Frau Kitty and Herr Gato waiting for 2015, and some treats, mostly the treats

having learned about compassion & love for animals.
I got a 'new' look for 2015 too...

Shorter hair for 2015 so I can be even lazier!

I don't believe in new year's resolutions, but if I'd have to
I would like to:
Speak more for the farmed animals we eat,
so people can understand their pain and stop using them & eating them
Sleep more! I don't sleep as much I need to
Be healthier
Read more books!

Adios 2014, you were a great year.
Welcome 2015!

you can too

January is going fast
but you can still make some new year's resolutions
going vegan to help the animals
to become healthier, and to help the environment
is a great resolution!
Our planet and the animals are suffering immensely
You can do it! Here are
21 Reasons to Go Vegan for the New Year!

Try it, and then you can be a Happy Vegan too!

Salute to Vienna 2013

a lovely re-creation of the world famous
Salute to Vienna, New Year's concert
here in San Diego, on January 1st of 2013
at the Copley Symphony Hall
with the Strauss Symphony of America
with Andreas Mitisek, conductor
Anita Lukacs, soprano; Zsolts Vadasz, tenor
and the dancers from the Kiev-Aniko Ballet of Ukraine

it was a great way to start the year
with live music, fun Operettas, Polkas, and Waltzes
and with my mom's company...

also plenty of costumes at the entrance!

adiós 2012

this was an interesting year
a good year
the first year in my new home
finding a more comfortable place at work
enjoyed spending time, mostly with these 3...
my mom, Herr Gato, and lovely Frau Kitty
reading books, listening to music
and mostly, living life...

i wish you all my blogger friends
the best for this 2013, and always
health, love, warmth of heart
and some little money, why not? too!

love you all who are around this blog!

now the infamous 3 from pictures
from these days...

my mom outside my home

Frau Kitty by the window

Herr Gato helping my mom pack her suitcase

2011/2012

2011 was indeed a great year!

it had many downs, but mostly ups

is the year that i got a new home

and the year that i stopped working with my best friend

is the year that i became a bit more adult

and a bit more thankful for being alive...

i receive 2012 full of hope

in my new home

accompanied by my beautiful mom

and many-times blogged

Herr Gato and Frau Kitty

we already had some delicious swordfish cooked

with olive oil, rice and bell peppers

and we wait for midnight to celebrate

the arrival of 2012

i haven't blogged much lately

the moving, the new home

the holidays, but i hope for 2012

to have more time to photograph

to blog, and to keep in touch

with the wonderful friends i have met

even if only electronically through this blog...

you know who you are!

Happy New Year

Glückliches neues Jahr

Feliz Año Nuevo

the last post of the year

A Happy New Year 2011
Ein glückliches neues Jahr 2011!
Un Feliz Año Nuevo 2011

is my wish to you all

this morning San Diego is beautifully sunny and cold
the city smiled at us once again with its golden smile
this has been a good year
as i feel my years have been lately in spite of it all
no matter if sick, mad, tired, or broke
lately i enjoy more of life
of the enjoy of being alive
so i hope i can share with you this feeling
of no matter what being thankful for being alive

i hope 2011 brings you peace, health, love, and plenty
of smiles, even if those silly ones that your mouth draws
without an apparent reason, those are the best

this morning, i took this close-up of a mourning dove
she wasn't mourning but getting ready to celebrate the beginning
of a new year in our lives!



A Happy New Year 2011
Ein glückliches neues Jahr 2011!
Un Feliz Año Nuevo 2011

hope to see you around here next year!

a blue moon for a new year

today was a special day
the last one of 2009
a rather hard year for me,
death was sniffing around...

but with hope in the heart

and a double full moon, a blue moon

on the skies

i plan to start smiling this 2010

my poor attempt to photograph the captivating full moon without a tripod, too lazy to set it up...

this morning i went to my yoga class

and to celebrate the rare event of a blue moon

instead of sun salutations we did moon salutations

the version we did is a bit modified from the one on the link
i've never heard or done before moon salutations
so i thought that was pretty cool
probably the last thing i've learned in this 2009


a closer failure, but hey! there's a photo,
a bad one, but a photo nevertheless...

later, i had lunch at Jyoti Bihanga with my friend
el perro, was nice to see him before the year ends
i spent the last hours of 2009 putting together
an IKEA little table and getting rid of my old desk

i think is a nice superstition to start the new year
with a clean home, and even though i did clean much
i cleared the old desk and set the new table

i took a shower and now i rest the day
counting the hours, the minutes, not for 2009 to end
but for 2010 to begin
my two friendos the gatos are fast asleep
frau Kitty on her post, and herr Gato on the couch
i decided to not go out tonight but to stay in & relax
and it feels as Radiohead would say
Everything in its Right Place

and i guess is normal to make resolutions for the new year
i have no intentions to go hard on myself
but i do hope in 2010 to read more
about 300 books heh heh
and to do yoga more often, yes, to work out too
but specially more yoga, i do feel so fine
while facing downward like a dog

a warm eHug for you reading here
thank you for being my eFriend
and i sincerely wish you the healthiest of existences
for this coming year, and always in your life
a healthy body, a healthy mind, and a healthy gentle soul

as today, and tonight i am
loving being alive another day
another year, another decade!
& thankful for coming all the way
from 1969 to 2010!

Feliz Navidad

wishing that the celebration of Christmas
always full of lights, warmth, and joy
make your heart jingle with some love
and puts a smile upon your soul


Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico - December 2008

today we celebrate, regardless of being Catholics,
Christians, Pagans, or so on,
the birth of one the 'coolest' souls ever to be born
Jesus Christ
one of my favorite entities of this our troubled
western world

to think that a little baby Jesus brought literally
a new era to this world, with only a message of peace
tolerance and love, is something to smile about

receive an electronic yet very warm hug
if you come across this page

and hopefully, regardless of being religious or not,
we all will practice some of the humility he taught...

here some of his wise words, they still make sense
after 2000 years or so

“No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.”

“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
-Jesus Christ

feliz año nuevo 2008

Frohes Neues Jahr!
Happy New Year!
¡Feliz Año Nuevo!

i think is not too late for this post
wishing a happy new year if you come across here



i know that what cross this wintry german sky is
just a plane
but my little soul got tricked into the belief
that is a falling star!
eine Sternschnuppe...
loaded with warm wishes of love and peace
for this new year

i wish that a falling star
crosses your sky too
and drops on her way
for you some warm dreams
and

Prost!
Cheers!
y... ¡Salud!