Arriving

While you were filming the storm, I was doing this. By coincidence, it's an answer, even if it's not as pretty or elaborate as I would have liked.
Spring will come. Weather we want it or not, weather we like it or not, it's arriving. Bringing hope and fear, like any beginning and ending. But it feels good to be on the way.
Have a sunny spring, filled with hope.
PS It's silly: I am not able to insert a dynamic Geogebra sheet in a blog. I know exactly what to do, I do the same steps as the others, but what works for them does not work for me. Stupid.

Strong Wind Storm

I wanted to show you the kind of wind storm we are having. First I couldn't find my video-camera, then it had no battery. when everything was ready, whenever I tried to record the wind stopped for a while. finally I got this small video.
The tree is not moving very much because the house itself shelters it. I took it an hour ago more or less, now it is raining and pitch dark.
Awful day! There may not be spring this year.

A journey

It's interesting. I had forgotten to finish this post. The real experience is not the video in itself, it's the situation I took the photos in. I went shooting the town, you know I love this activity, with students. It was an activity for the Contemporary Architecture project. I was working with the weakest students in the classroom and it was amazing the amount of work they did and the good results. These photos are mine, but when they do their ppts I'll also publish them, because I've seen some of them and they are really good. They perfectly got the aim of the photos and their walk into the Mysticism was something new for them. they read, answered my questions, thought, compared. In Spanish, of ocurs,e it is impossible for them to use english in an immediate situation. But it was a kind of MI practical experience.

Geometry (2)

Still at it.

Geometry

This is a picture I really love. Don't know why. What I see now is the amount of Geometry ancient architects knew. Here's one for your Geogebra if you want to study it. I should be doing the activities in my LearningLab, but I couldn't do this morning what I was required: a cardgame for my pupils. So, nothing to think about. It will have to wait until tomorrow.
Sunny cold evening here. anyway, I'm at home. What about you?

An Ordinary Miracle

Sorin went to the market for vegetables and brought me this. And hope. It's still cold, windy, muddy from the partially melted piles of snow, cloudy, but it seems that the wind has a new smell.
In one of his very few optimistic (I should say "less pessimistic") poems, Bacovia, our most melancholic poet, tells the spring:" I can still see you, I can still hear you." Maybe we will live this ordinary miracle one more time. A gift. I feel grateful and humble.
And all this, because of some tiny weeds! Back to the kitchen, where I belong today!

All Around

As I saw your photos I realized again how much Geometry is around us. Especially in your town. I'm quite taken with Geogebra these days, and I tend to see it everywhere. Here's a piece of the frontispice of your cathedral, just a game of recognizing shapes. And a suggestion, if you don't mind : you could add a Maths part in your Architecture project. I wish I had the time and the idea of taking more such photos when I was last there! I could use them in many ways. Well, that oprtunity is lost.
Thanks again for the photos.