GOOD MORNING MOUNTAINS!

These photos were taken in Lausanne, Switzerland, around 8am this morning as that is when the sun comes up here this time of year. 

It's like getting up in the middle of the night if you have to get up at 7:30am. I have been sleeping in until 8:30 most days when I am in fact used to getting up at 7:15am every day. Amazing.

This whole scene was within 4 minutes, changing rapidly.

 It really did change to this bright orange within minutes and couldn't have lasted any longer than that.

Getting ready to go to school today- International School of Lausanne  to help with room decor for the music dept. 

Accreditation committee trickling in from Tunisia, Connecticut and various other places. They will all be here by this afternoon. 

Big week and weekend at the school. My teacher host, Christopher is head of the school's accreditation committee, organizing events, meeting the NEASC members as they fly into Geneva,  and doing an intensive and  fab job. He showed me the reports and they are awesome. 

Tomorrow is a meet and greet for faculty and admin. I'll be the official photographer for this event. 

La Tour Eiffel, Paris, France March 2009

tour eiffel, Paris, France, originally uploaded by DAR Photos & Photoshop.

A trip to Paris is not complete unless you have gone to the Eiffel Tower and at least photographed it. I hate being a tourist...but I "touristed" and took the requisite photo...

Not my finest photo...but here is La Tour Eiffel at night, taken after the bike ride through Paris! Ask me about it...

I do  like these photos of the Eiffel Tower - very abstract and great contrast. I felt like the photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson, who photographed to "capture the moment."

I have been to La Premiere Etage...the first level of the Eiffel Tower. Real brave people go to the very top where there is a radio station. It isn't the height that gets you. It's the attached cable car that goes up the inside of the tower and you watch the gears and cables through the windows of the car as it eeks its way up. Not my cuppa tea if you know what I mean.