And now I have been living in Switzerland for the past almost 60 years but here we have a clean mist. Of course it is still dense, but there is something fresh about it. There is no smog, just thick intransparent mist, but your lungs survive. It usually arrives during Autumn and arrises from the local rivers. By Winter it disappears, but we then have the clear freezing air. We would probably miss it all, if we were living at the equator in the hotter parts of the world without Autumn or Winter.
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RDP Wednesday: Cabinet
RDP Wednesday: Sunflower
Sunflowers are one of our main crops in Switzerland. Their seeds supply us with oil. One of our local farmers planted a field of them some years ago and I would often take a few photos. There must have bee hundreds of them growing.
RDP Wednesday: Flippant
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RDP Wednesday: Karaoke
The only person in my family with the courage to do a Karaoke is my No.1 son on the left. Here is is with the lead singer of one of the Swiss Pop Groups. He might be autistic, but has has no problem to stand on the stage and sing now and again, although I am still waiting for his hit record.
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Just a tap (or faucet for some) with plain water. Today water has become a precious and expensive, article, at least in our part of the world and so you think twice before using it. Taking a full bath has become a thing of the past. With my MS I can no longer even get into the bath and so, I take a daily shower, making sure that the water is not running continuously, but stopping in between and just using it to rinse off the soap. Living in our own apartment in a complex, once a year there is a list to show how much water has to be paid for from our administration. It was always the job of Mr. Swiss to examine it, but now he is no longer here, being in a golden oldie home, I now carry the responsibility. I did not even realise that water is measured in cubic. A very good friend of mine informed me that something is not correct with the records of our water usage. I am alone in the home with my son and our cubic usage is way above normal, the highest usage here, We have made a table of our usage over the past seven years, as this has long been so much. My husband did not realise this and me, being new in this world of usage, now carry the responsibility to examine the problem. I have contacted our water supplier and they will look into it as something must be wrong somewhere with the measure-ring system. I have now got in touch with our administration and they will instruct our water supplier to examine our statistics. Life for me as a single lady keeping everything under control has become quite complex, but I am getting there. I feel as if I am now a general manager in a small concern.
RDP Wednesday: ConsequencesRDP Wednesday: Unpredictable

If there is anything unpredictable it is the weather. One day rain, the next day sun and temperatures that go up and down all the time. And now we have a climate change to contend with, meaning as usual, that the weather does what it wants heedless of our expectations.

But this crow arrives daily in my garden to see if there is anything to eat. I am sure it is the same crow every time. He is now becoming predictable.
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RDP Wednesday: Museum
The photo is from the Natural History museum where they had a department for prehistoric animals that had been discovered over the years in England, As you can see it was a very majestic museum, with plenty of space, which it had to have for the sizes of the dinosaurs. My oldest son is standing next to the skeleton of the tail of a dinosaur and my youngest, who is now father of my two grandchildren, is at the front of the photo standing next to me. I was visiting my family in London when we made an excursion to South Kensington. The Science Museum was also attractive with the many machines you could operated, not to mention in later years when they exhibited one of the space capsules used by the Ameicans to return to earth,
I now live in a part of Switzerland where our local town of Solothurn also has a museum.
Museums always fascinated and in the meanwhile I have visited many in the world.