ZDP II

lake & mountains

2007-10-02T18:35:00.000+01:00

cemeteries & tombstones

2007-10-01T08:40:00.000+01:00

James Joyce is buried at Friedhof Fluntern.

sharpie pen mural

2007-09-23T23:06:00.000+01:00

click on the picture to see all the detail

el lokal

2007-09-10T23:37:00.000+01:00

Special guest performing "Paloma Negra" by Chavela Vargas.

aluminum people

2007-09-05T23:28:00.000+01:00

waiting to jump out of the truck

bright lights made them extra shiny (and difficult to take pictures)

lovestruck street art?

2007-09-03T16:46:00.000+01:00

it's a street lamp!

2007-09-01T12:08:00.000+01:00

oldtimers

2007-08-22T22:38:00.000+01:00

oldtimers

2007-08-22T22:15:00.000+01:00

street parade

2007-08-13T23:06:00.000+01:00

street parade

2007-08-13T22:51:00.000+01:00

august 1st

2007-08-02T21:16:00.000+01:00

jet d'eau

2007-07-17T08:19:00.000+01:00

live at sunset

2007-07-12T08:50:00.000+01:00

patriotic church

2007-07-09T10:22:00.000+01:00

fireworks!

2007-07-08T14:48:00.000+01:00

cafe/bar/kiosk

2007-06-26T18:20:00.000+01:00

money is boring

2007-06-24T07:58:00.000+01:00

Seen in Ljubljana

pop quiz II: hint

2007-06-16T17:35:00.000+01:00

art student

2007-06-07T23:02:00.000+01:00

presidential lipo?

2007-05-14T08:25:00.000+01:00

Even the back end of the building is made to look like the original White House.

Front of the building.

sheep piece

2007-05-12T22:54:00.000+01:00

more benches

2007-05-08T22:50:00.000+01:00

bright orange benches in Sihlcity

bleeding hearts

2007-05-03T22:16:00.000+01:00

"have fun at work!"

2007-04-29T10:38:00.000+01:00

with the bus stop

(re)charging

2007-04-24T20:15:00.000+01:00

virtual scavenger hunt

2007-04-20T08:40:00.000+01:00

pink

2007-04-18T08:09:00.000+01:00

Blooming tree as seen from my living room couch. This is what it looked like almost exactly one month ago.

Sechseläuten Monday

2007-04-17T07:42:00.000+01:00

Old fashioned participants using modern means of transportation to get to the parade. (Note that the guy on the right has a Freitag bag).

View from my office window, in the heart of the Old Town. Yesterday was a half-day holiday. I went to work in the morning, but obviously didn't get much work done.

Woman handing flowers to one of her men.

Sechseläuten Monday

2007-04-17T07:40:00.000+01:00

Another man gets some flowers and a kiss.

Sechseläuten Monday

2007-04-17T07:39:00.000+01:00

what better place than my sax to hold all my flowers?

hello everybody!

I can't carry all these flowers and keep up...

Sechseläuten Monday

2007-04-17T03:30:00.000+01:00

This kid had a prime viewing spot.

After the explosion: the Böög's head is gone

Sechseläuten Children's Parade

2007-04-16T07:21:00.000+01:00

Sechseläuten Saturday

2007-04-15T10:46:00.000+01:00

Meta photo

teuscher

2007-04-09T13:08:00.000+01:00

lindt bunnies

2007-04-08T11:46:00.000+01:00

I <3 bunny

2007-04-08T11:30:00.000+01:00

sprüngli melted display

2007-04-07T12:57:00.000+01:00

Sadly, this bunny didn't survive the direct sunlight, but I'm sure the chocolate is still yummy.

matchy matchy poofiness

2007-03-27T21:32:00.000+01:00

Note the sign on the building "Pelz Paradies" (Fur Paradise). She had just come out of this fur shop on swanky Banhofstrasse.

late winter

2007-03-20T09:12:00.001+01:00

I could just skip work and sit here all day...

zuricamels

2007-03-15T10:00:00.000+01:00

This is when I first saw them, but they had already passed me by the time I got my camera out. Camels move surprisingly fast!

The camel handlers stopped for some beer while the camels made a mess on the sidewalk. I started to get a bit worried here--what if the camels got out of control and the handlers were too drunk to handle them?

Grossmunster camels.

He looked like he was posing.

He looked mad..foaming at the mouth and all...

A few more pictures here.

If you've ended up on this page by accident, it'll make more sense if you go here first.

zuricamels cont'd

2007-03-15T09:50:00.000+01:00

The camels moved on to another part of town...

If you've ended up on this page by accident, it'll make more sense if you go here first.

more men at work in zurich

2007-03-01T01:02:00.000+01:00

In Zurich, streets are clean and pot-hole free, the trees are perfectly pruned, walls and buildings are cleaned and repainted as soon as graffiti goes up (in some cases on the very same day), garbage and recyclables are collected according to a precise schedule, buildings that previously looked perfectly fine are renovated, entire stretches of major streets are torn up for no apparent reason, tram-tracks ripped out (you should have seen the Limmatquai this summer! too bad I didn't take any pictures then...), and everything is put back into place 4-5 months later, looking even prettier than it ever did before.

For a cynic who has lived in cities where none of the really necessary things ever seem to get done or fixed, where potholes left untouched for months turn into craters, where the city-scape is marred with abandoned, half-finished projects because the city or developer ran out of money, where tunnels collapse during, or even after construction is complete, where inaccurate street signs have you driving around the same 10 block radius for hours, where someone forgot to put the sidewalk back in after doing some street work--it just seems like Zurich has way more money than they can figure out how to spend. In some of my other cities (which I still visit)--forget beautification! I'd be happy if they would just fix the potholes, and if they would just please, please, make sure no tunnels fall on my head!

cleaning tram tracks with a blast of water? (also note the scaffolding on the building in the background...)

street cleaning

spray cleaning something

I guess he got a little bored doing whatever it was he was supposed to be doing here and decided to do some window shopping instead.

putting the finishing touches on a wall after removing anti-WEF graffiti.

more men at work in zurich, cont'd

2007-03-01T00:30:00.000+01:00

Z in Villigen posted on the Altpapiersammlung in her village. Thankfully, ours comes twice a month, rather than 4 times a year. Paper must be stacked and tied in neat little bundles in order for it to be collected. Here are two men and a truck, hard at work, collecting paper in Old Town Zurich.

"We build for Zurich" - I've been seeing these signs posted by the city administration all over the place since I moved here. Construction work is constant. The interesting thing is that the signs contain detailed info, complete with diagrams, on the construction project, the contractor, and the expected completion date. The most amazing thing is that, unlike all other cities I've lived in, the construction is actually completed on time! No delays! Probably no cost overruns either...Then, they just move on to the next construction, er..beautification project.

fasnacht cowboys

2007-02-28T22:58:00.000+01:00

This little cowboy stuffed a fistful of confetti in my pocket as I was trying to take a picture of this other little cowboy:

fasnacht parade

2007-02-28T21:00:00.000+01:00

The Bolivian Cultural Group of Zurich had a huge contingent of dancers participating in the parade. I had no idea there were so many Bolivians in Zurich...

Z in Villigen expressed her surprise at seeing so many babies sleeping through all the loud guggenmusik at her parade. Here's a Bolivian sleeping baby:

And here's a 'hairy' sleeping baby with its 'hairy' parent:

'Kiss' made an appearance at Zurich's Fasnacht parade. I didn't realize there were so many members in the band. And their music seems to have mellowed a bit over the years...

fasnacht parade cont'd

2007-02-28T20:50:00.000+01:00

Aqua monster looked scary

Chicken costumes seemed to be quite popular. We had chicken steel drummers:

and chicken spectators:

after the fasnacht parade

2007-02-28T20:45:00.000+01:00

taking a break

the scary masks come off to facilitate beer drinking (see the guy's hand)

it's time to catch up on some text messages (see girl on left)

it's the chicken people again!

fasnacht kids

2007-02-28T20:30:00.000+01:00

Check out this little pirate's right hand--he has a fistful of confetti and is looking for his next victim.

Little kids eat bratwurst too.

Cute dino on her way home...

guardian angel II

2007-02-13T21:18:00.000+01:00

Guardian Angel II graciously accepts some jam.

tgi-freitag

2007-02-09T08:50:00.000+01:00

Flagship Freitag store in Zurich