the supplies are dwindling

I always wondered how long it takes to go through a tube of toothpaste.  About three months.  Same with conditioner, and lip balm, and most of the other things I brought from the States and now have to replace with weird Swiss products.  Mostly I make good choices, but there've definitely been some failures, too.

dejected

ready to take over

There have been some inquiries about the state of the plants.  Peas have flowers, chard needs to be repotted, lettuce is delicious.  Some of it smells like the tomato plant growing in the container (also waiting to be repotted) and I like those leaves the best.

The fried areas happened while I was gone, do you think it's sunburn, from water?

And to close, two evening sun-on-wall shots, taken during the only 30 minutes of clear skies we got today.  (Late spring is turning out to be depressingly cold and wet.  Unusually so, I hear.)  My room really displays a dramatic difference in the position of the sun throughout the year.  When I moved here, we'd get sun on the north wall around 6 PM; now it's sun on the south wall at 8.  Fascinating.

morning walkabout

More snow this morning. Alas, I thought, now I have to stay in today. Foolish! Pants-under-pants. I'm impenetrable.

on the way to the farmer's market (will it be open?)

ready for snow

Mattheüskirche

Market! Open! These folks are hearty.

After the market I stopped in at the thrift store to look for a little desk. No dice, though there were some tempting books in the Biographies section.

Also available was a book about the Backstreet Boys.

I wanted this

By the time I left the thrift store it had stopped snowing.

cranky-eye

Someone finally rethinking their mannequin from 1997?

This is to show you how close the supermarket (Migros) is to my house. Up on the left the second white building on the next block (the taller) is where I live. I also had a chance to go to the Post Office to send off some things (Customs charges dispute, application for my Half Price pass for the trains, key to storage unit to CA) and got some tips for other things to do around the area, including a little footpath and walking bridge (La Petite Camargue Alsacienne?) where good birdwatching can be done. I like the post office. I'll have to write more letters.