tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603107829473043654.post349631986921040954..comments2024-03-29T04:08:44.616-04:00Comments on 66 Square Feet (Plus): In other blossom news...Mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13632520557553405790noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603107829473043654.post-29720781567205150812011-04-14T03:21:57.245-04:002011-04-14T03:21:57.245-04:00Dear Marie Viljoen,
This is a friendly follow-up ...Dear Marie Viljoen,<br /><br />This is a friendly follow-up to our first message to you (May 2010), to warmly invite you again to list your blog on our Expat Women Blog Directory (http://www.expatwomen.com/expatblog/). Blogs like yours are excellent sources of information for relocating expats, so we would love to include it with our other 1,700+ self-listed blogs.<br /><br />We are also excited to let you know that we just re-launched our main website (http://www.expatwomen.com/), so please drop by and have a look if you are interested.<br /><br />Many, many thanks and wishing you success abroad!<br /><br />Jessica Perez for ExpatWomen.comUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17504603935058049547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603107829473043654.post-85215495283083166292011-04-13T23:57:21.965-04:002011-04-13T23:57:21.965-04:00The Cab Ride:
The cabbie was fined $350. He can a...The Cab Ride:<br /><br />The cabbie was fined $350. He can appeal. He was found guilty of being 'discourteous' - making us leave the cab on a cabless stretch of Brooklyn on the way to catch an international flight. He was found not guilty of trying to overcharge us (this after he twice ignored my request to go a certain route, then set his meter to $45 once he had been persuaded to turn around). His representative was allowed to cross examine me, but I never even got to hear his testimony (which was later sent to me by mail with the verdict), nor to question it. <br /><br />I remember the 'bad language' I used, now. I said to him, as we left the cab, with our luggage, You are a crook.<br /><br />Sylvanna - they give the French bulldogs botox, too. At dog spas ;-)<br /><br />San - I wonder why New York has more?<br /><br />Frank - yeah, it does become a bit obsessive compulsive. I think that if I photographed less I would write more.<br /><br />Jane - sigh. I don't know. He was such a schmuck. I should have known when I said good morning and was met with thundering silence that it would be a bad ride. But that's not too unusual.<br /><br />Janet - you are great! Yes and yes. Thank you. Norway maple! They are stunning. <br /><br />Thank you very much, Hazel - that makes me happy...<br /><br />Sweetgum T - yes, it's true. Every year something new. <br /><br />Ikaika/Keli'i - yes, it's saturated and unreserved :-) Tickle to the cat.Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17086277483606295046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603107829473043654.post-6975252287174360312011-04-13T23:07:10.867-04:002011-04-13T23:07:10.867-04:00Ooooh ... that quince color makes me very happy! T...Ooooh ... that quince color makes me very happy! Thanks as always for the pictures.<br /><br />Keli'iIkaikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16490381907339678293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603107829473043654.post-38360085580666136632011-04-13T22:05:02.824-04:002011-04-13T22:05:02.824-04:00Chartreuse flowers - Norway maple? Big, big trees...Chartreuse flowers - Norway maple? Big, big trees, little explosions of lime-green?<br /><br />Did the cabbie get busted?Janet Davishttp://www.beautifulbotany@sympatico.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603107829473043654.post-70889883724616236392011-04-13T21:51:51.181-04:002011-04-13T21:51:51.181-04:00I bet you'll know those flowers though next ye...I bet you'll know those flowers though next year, probably just because they caught your eye and curiousity this year. Humbling perhaps, but also kind of cool, because it means there's always something else to learn..something else to discover. that's how i look at it.Sweetgum Thursdayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07940208313204210876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603107829473043654.post-56946633156543030322011-04-13T19:47:29.306-04:002011-04-13T19:47:29.306-04:00I follow your blog avidly, Marie, but rarely comme...I follow your blog avidly, Marie, but rarely comment (and I adore <i>el gato negro, por supuesto</i>) - but I must say that I have appreciated more blossom this year in our 'hood, in central England than ever before because of your recent posts - thank you.Hazelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18191107549698019812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603107829473043654.post-58576973149954632722011-04-13T19:05:45.039-04:002011-04-13T19:05:45.039-04:00As lovely as the further pictures of spring are......As lovely as the further pictures of spring are...and of course they're beautiful.....<br /><br />I'm reeling from the cabbie story.<br />Is this not weird to anyone else?<br /><br />Who won?<br /><br />xoflwrjanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14905305551745652868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603107829473043654.post-76456116987797178692011-04-13T18:57:02.588-04:002011-04-13T18:57:02.588-04:00Okame, I went passed these today, cherries in the ...Okame, I went passed these today, cherries in the mist, and they were quite lovely, dusky pink, I photographed with my eyes.<br /><br />Sometimes I think I am fortunate not to have my camera or I would never get where I am going!<br /><br />Hardly one feature alone certifiably ids the trees! I've got some bark down, many leaves, and little of the flowers. Still workin on my weed tree.frank@nycgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603107829473043654.post-68062171504140896342011-04-13T17:41:03.188-04:002011-04-13T17:41:03.188-04:00I remember how beautiful the magnolia trees were i...I remember how beautiful the magnolia trees were in NY when I visited last spring. We only have a few in Brussels. And they're well hidden. It's such a pity...Sanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14164023829326625759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8603107829473043654.post-74491074968818105732011-04-13T17:40:11.049-04:002011-04-13T17:40:11.049-04:00There are face-lifted dogs??? I suddenly feel ver...There are face-lifted dogs??? I suddenly feel very rural and it has nothing to do with my purple plaid flannel shirt.Sylvannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09928028663255268616noreply@blogger.com