Category:Personal
On the cold dark ground
And the rain is falling down
The church door’s thrown open
I can hear the organ’s song
But the congregation’s gone
My city of ruins
My city of ruins
Now the sweet bells of mercy
Drift through the evening trees
Young men on the corner
Like scattered leaves,
The boarded up windows,
The empty streets
While my brother’s down on his knees
My city of ruins
My city of ruins
Come on, rise up! Come on, rise up!
Come on, rise up! Come on, rise up!
Come on, rise up! Come on, rise up!
Now’s there’s tears on the pillow
Darlin’ where we slept
And you took my heart when you left
Without your sweet kiss
My soul is lost, my friend
Tell me how do I begin again?
My city’s in ruins
My city’s in ruins
Now with these hands,
With these hands,
With these hands,
I pray Lord
With these hands,
With these hands,
I pray for the strength, Lord
With these hands,
With these hands,
I pray for the faith, Lord
We pray for your love, Lord
We pray for the lost, Lord
We pray for this world, Lord
We pray for the strength, Lord
We pray for the strength, Lord
Come on, rise up
© Bruce Springsteen
I could barely breathe
Just an empty impression
In the bed where you used to be
I want a kiss from your lips
I want an eye for an eye
I woke up this morning to the empty sky
Empty sky, empty sky
I woke up this morning to an empty sky
Empty sky, empty sky
I woke up this morning to an empty sky
© Bruce Springsteen
We have a regular visitor in our garden since a couple of months. A young wild rabbit spends his evenings nibbling at our lawn. ‘Cause he’s always bouncing around like crazy, I named him Hoppie.
We had very hot weather the last 2 weeks—a regular heat wave—and we hadn’t seen him for quite some days. It got us kinda worried. But after this weekend’s rain, our little friend was back. And he seems to be very at ease with us. I could get as close as 3 meters to take a series of pictures.
(photo taken at the Science Museum in London)
Came across an interesting Springsteen related website: springsteentracker.com. You can build a list of all Springsteen shows you have attended on this site. Your list is linked to Google Maps, so you can see where you’ve been for a Springsteen show.
See the list of shows that I have attended here. There is one show missing in my list: Springsteen’s performance in Paris as part of the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights.
Every year in October, DIFO, the photo club I belong too has an exhibition with the best work of their members. All the photos automatically enter a club competition. Every June, we select the best 3 black/white photos, the best 3 color photos and the best 3 slides.
I joined DIFO last September, so I’ll be showing off my work for the first time this year. 8 of my photos will be at the exhibition. And I also entered the club competition for the first time ever. Not having high hopes,
I won 3rd prize in the category Color Photo with this photo from models Dasha and Natascha. The photo was made during a model shoot at the Anco building.
I was totally surprised. Honestly, this is not one of these “I didn’t expect this†Oscar speeches. I consider myself to be a rookie in photography. I’ve got only a few years of experience. And to see that my work can compete with the work of my fellow photographers in the club makes me really proud.
Geocaching season for us started this afternoon. We went looking for the Prinsenpark geocache (GCKJQ7). It was a rather easy pick up. And since the park is a nice little nature preserve, we used the rest of the afternoon for a little walk and to shoot some photos. We can across a pond with a couple of dragonflies and we just had to give it a go. Shots didn’t come out as we wanted it though.
I’m doing some design work for new website templates. I suddenly realized that this year is the 10th anniversary of our website.
When we first got an Internet connection, about 10 years ago, we were connecting to the internet with a 14K modem. I remember the hassle it was to set up a connection back then: lousy modem drivers, winsocks stuff, slow browsers and the phone always busy. And it took forever to load a page.
Almost as soon as we got the internet connection, I started experimenting with my own website. And pretty soon, I was hosting the website of the Belgian Bruce Springsteen fanclub. But that site is no more as the fanclub is no more.
At first, our site was a simple HTML based site, hosted with our internet provider. See snapshots of our site on the wayback server. Later, in 1999, we got our own domain name. All that time, the site has become more and more complex, as you can see from the wayback server.