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This week, I am going through some old photos and I found this tiny snapshot – a picture of my mom and dad on their wedding day! We’re currently preparing for their Golden Anniversary party, so it makes sense that they look like kids in this picture, but oh my! They look so young!

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Cats do very strange things, as all cat owners know. I like to think CoCo knows how much I love books, and that’s why she always prefers to perch on a pile of them. Here she’s enjoying some early spring sunshine, sitting pretty on a stack of books, just daring me to disturb her to get to The Best of Punk Magazine there on the bottom! (She knows the review is due soon.)

Saturday Snapshot is hosted by Alyce at At Home with Books. To participate, post a photo that you (or a friend or family member) have taken then leave a direct link to your post in the Mister Linky. Photos can be old or new, and be of any subject as long as they are clean and appropriate for all eyes to see. How much detail you give in the caption is entirely up to you. Please don’t post random photos that you find online.

Today’s picture is of the guy who almost ruined my Thursday. I had to go to the dentist (follow-up on a root canal I had a few weeks ago – OUCH!) and when I came out, someone had proved they needed a copy of Parking for Dummies (my car is on the right):

I went back into the building, where there are several offices, but no one would admit to driving a blue Echo and not being able to park it. I had to climb in from the passenger side, over the console, and squeeze into the driver’s seat – not an easy task in a small car! Too bad I couldn’t find the driver – I would have hauled them out and made them move it!

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I have been sick in bed most of the week with a bad cold, so I’ve got no new pictures (they’d be of tea cups and tissues, I’m afraid). Instead, I found some interesting things in the archives. Back in 2009, I had a long work trip to Amsterdam and 2 colleagues and I spent the weekend in Brugges. It was the weekend of misadventure, which is why most of pictures of the city are at night.

First, we stayed at a lovely inn just outside of town:

I always thought this place must be really beautiful in the summer.

We got into town very late, so we saw the city mostly by night, when the fountains are quite dramatic.

And the lighting makes everything mysterious.

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I was going through some old pictures this week and found a couple of old photos I wanted to share. These are from a birthday trip I took to Paris in 2005.

If you look very closely, you can see two firemen in red suits, dangling from a line. They were using the base of the Eiffel Tower for rescue training – perfect spot! (You can see them better in the larger photo – just click.)

A view of the Eiffel Tower from the other side of town, on the stairs of Montmartre:

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Last weekend, a good friend and I went to Lola Bistro for dinner. Now, I’ve lived around here for a while — we’ve been eating at Lola since it was over in Tremont, the location that is now Lolita (before the whole car-through-the-front-window thing). So we’ve been letting Michael Symon cook for us since before he was famous, before he was an Iron Chef – back when he was just a guy with a crazy laugh and a pig tattoo.

The tasting menu at Lola is always something special. The food was fabulous, the service was fabulous and Himself was in the house! (Not cooking, just entertaining some friends.) It made me wish I could do a better job of taking photos…

There was so much more great food! If only you could taste it through the screen!

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Well, it has been snowing forever here and I can’t stand the thought of posting any snowy photos. Instead, I thought I would dig back in the archives a little and I found some photos from a trip I took to Seattle in 2008. We visited a conservatory and took a walk through the greenhouses. Here are a few of the interesting plants I saw…

Click through to see larger versions of my pretty, pretty blossoms!

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This past week I was in Cincinnati for work. We were out for lunch in one of the smaller neighborhoods (I can’t for the life of me remember which one) and I noticed squirrels!

They reminded me of the pigs I saw in downtown Cincinnati back in June…

I love this sort of street art! Here in Cleveland, we have guitars. I really should get out and take some photos of them to share.

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I didn’t take a single picture this week! It’s been pretty busy here around the Shelves, so I think I’m going to share some pics I took on my birthday trip to Paris. I always say that I never take pictures of monuments when I travel – everyone knows what the Eiffel Tower looks like, right? But sometimes, you get to see something from a whole new angle…

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Today, a picture of my housemate, Coco, ringing in the New Year in her favorite spot: