A wonderful vacation came to an end...

Just one last sunset, before we left last night. It was beautiful again. I could watch them forever.
I must say it is also nice to be home. The weather is still great and I need to get a new phone since it fell into the water.
Oh my god we are lost without a cell phone. All the public phones did not work. What is one to do? I did not think though I could have used skype…

In Honor of our friend Mike who passed today...

I am in total shock about the news of the passing of our friend Mike today.
The sky responded with great drama and beauty to welcome him into heaven…
RIP Mike and our heart goes out to his family.

Today God used the color gold to paint...

Again we had an amazing sunset, but my battery went dead before the end. I have to keep the final minutes in my memory.
I am staying another day at the shore and we will see what happens tomorrow.
I hope you enjoy the pictures , I sure do…

another amazing sunset

It never seizes to amaze me how wonderful the colors and the drama in the sky can be.
I cannot get enough of its beauty...
These pictures are from the 4th of July.

Why I love skies...

Sunsets happen, when God is painting.
And what a master he is….

(I took these pics myself tonight at the shore July 3rd)

ICEWORKS a global melting pot for skaters...

It has been really exciting what has happened at our rink. Since Olympic Champions Natalia Linichuk and Gennadiy Karponosov are teaching here, we are having people train with us from all over the world. It is so interesting to watch the preparation for Olympics having Tanith and Ben, and Oksana and Maxim training on the same ice …
Right now we have Skaters and coaches from:
America, Canada, China, Korea, Switzerland, Ukraine, Russia, Japan, Slovenia , Israel, France, Germany and others are scheduled to come.
For the next two weeks we have a huge hockey tournament with participants from:
America, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Canada, Italy, Denmark and Ukraine
And middle of July we have the “Liberty Competition” which is one of the largest figure skating competitions in the world( last year we had 1800 starts!!!)
It is so rewarding for me to see all the friendships that are being started. I benefited from my international skating experiences with having made friends for a life time.
Great skating, great friendships and lots of fun…
Truly a dream come true!!!

Endless flow and the beauty of skating...

It is so wonderful to be involved again in creating beautiful skating.
We have skaters again at the rink who are willing to go beyond the rules and create endless flow.
It is very simple but not easy…
One has to except that the body is the tool and that space is my creation.
When I sit in the snack bar and look out the window , the movement of the skaters has to look as if they are in water. And I have to see a continuous effect on space through their movement.
Through gliding movement and motion we have the opportunity to create the illusion as if gravity is non existent. When a skater achieves that it gives the spectator goose bumps while watching.
As my dad always said:
*Everybody feels emotions
*Some can move their emotions
*Seldom can someone evoke emotions in others through their movement…
That is where it is and always has been at for me to be in love with skating...!!!