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At the end of the year, Marta ended her last employment: for 22 years, she taught mathematics at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of CTU (Czech Technical University in Prague). We don't have any photo from the faculty, so I'm adding at least a sample of how she taught from home during the COVID period. It's a very short silent video made from a live photo in 2021; the moving mouth is saying "Don't take a photo of me"!
2021 Učení za kovidu PXL_20210427_145139563.MP.mp4Marta is adjusting her teaching camera pointed at a sheet of paper.
Marta started taking photos and recording videos
Marta started taking photos and recording videos
Right on the very first day of the year: cell phone, beer, book...
American grandson, 42, with his Czech grandma, 95.
Marta managed to photograph our garden throughout the entire year (about 190 shots⬀). And besides capturing around 80 flowers, she also documented the changing seasons in the following 17 photos (you need to scroll through them):
Mitra with the rotating owl "on the stove."
2025 Krmení obou pxl-20250413-162834862.mp4Feeding the wildlife - you can see their different approaches.
Winter
Winter
A regular February week in the Krkonoše Mountains with tons of snow - 14 photos⬀.
2025 Mitra-vedle-stopy PXL_20250215_091109699.mp4In Ořech, hardly any snow and ice; skating was possible for maybe just two days.
Home activities
Home activities
Setting the right height.
A plumbing masterpiece down to the millimeter. Complete with hot water circulation and a switch to draw from either the boiler or the gas furnace.
It worked out well, so I'm going to tackle replacing the second toilet too...
A setup to prevent logs from scattering.
After this batch, we now have a total of 20 cubic meters of split firewood—enough for several winters.
2025 - Grif poprvé novou cestou 9.3.2025.mp4Exploring my new route to the roof.
Such a small thing, and now everyone uses this way. Except for the old dog...
The last addition to the house...
...in the coldest corner of the house, with thermal insulation to protect against the summer sun...
...and sliding doors with a lock.
The most beautiful Czech mountain landscape
The most beautiful Czech mountain landscape
A week on wheels⬀ along the upper Svratka River.
You can tell from the landscape and the cottages that no population exchange took place here—unlike in most of the Czech borderlands.
And we bought a little piece of that region as a watercolor to take home.
50 years after high school graduation
50 years after high school graduation
The very first reunion of high school classmates from the Sokolov gymnasium. First, probably as seventeen-year-olds with our homeroom teacher (second from the right). My head is here second from the left in the back. And then already as seventy-year-olds, along with our Russian language professor, who came to apologize to me after graduation for giving me a B—she said there was no other way. I didn't care; I liked her anyway.
Here I am standing in the back row on the right:
Autumn mountains
Autumn mountains
Americans
Americans
This year, Ondra arrived with the two younger ones, and Mom stayed home with the oldest—14 photos⬀: help at the Sázava cottage and the Mirákulum children's park.
2025 Dan na bruslích PXL_20250606_124617401.mp4
Petr and Lucie
Petr and Lucie
They got unplanned two more kittens. And planned a ton of work renovating the cottage⬀ on the Sázava River.
I used the construction of the outhouse on their Lednice vineyard as an opportunity to hike the beautiful Pálava ridge⬀ trail.
And at the end of the year, they even managed to fit in New Zealand⬀. Hopefully there'll be more photos in time.
They have Orion upside down there.
The crescent Moon is oriented the opposite way there.
On the same day, from Ořech.
Hanka
Hanka
2025 Hanka v trojhlase s varhany signal-2025-04-20-13-28-07-315.mp4Three soloists from Pavel Verner's choir (he appears right at the very end of the video). Hanka in the middle, Eva Vernerová on the right (Martina's sister).
On a trip with the choir. Anthony is the choir's organist and the partner of Hanka's friend.
Mitra
Mitra
2025 Mitra klus PXL_20250819_054814211~2.mp4Still that graceful movement and the shadow of a wolf.
And he always spreads good cheer. (All the New Year's greetings⬀.)
Grif
Grif
He's already tamed all of us, including Mitra.
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