T stands for Tuesday This and That

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week has started well. Here I was very shocked today - I

suddenly heard noise in the back garden, and saw that the

gardeners were cutting down the tree in front of my balcony- I asked them why, and they said the tree was rotten at the roots and not safe anymore. In ten minutes the tree had been  sawn down and chopped up into small pieces - so sad.

The tree gave me shadow, and was a resting and nesting place

for countless birds. I took photos of it, and will show them another time.

Elizabeth is hosting T stands for Tuesday again today, as well as our challenge at AJJ, back to school.

For back to school I have a hybrid piece. I used a vintage image from Gecko Galz, a Banksy stencil of the little girl with her balloon and some digital elements. The little boy, bowed down with heavy books, is dreaming of better days....:

We had wonderful weather while Susi was here, and often enjoyed some refreshments at the ice parlour in Market Square:

Iced coffee with extras.....

Hmmm, Susi likes it:

First taste, looking rather dubious:

Yessss! Delicious....

We began and ended Susi's time here in McCafe at the airport, and I used the

napkin from the tray to make a journal page. And just a reminder, you have one more week to enter the Coffee and cream challenge at TIOT!

And the last photo before she flew back home!

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

First day at school

Hi Everybody!

Hope you have had a good weekend. Today was cool and 

rather misty here,

but it was pleasant after all the hot days we had. 

I went out early for my walk,and the streets were almost deserted, 

which I also like.

For Elizabeth's 'Back to school' challenge at Art Journal Journey I made a page using a photo of me taken on my first day at school:

I was surprised to see the trees in front of my window looking so autumn like when I looked out this morning:

The Market Place was deserted:

This old 'fire telegraph' is on the corner of one of the streets here. I looked it up on Wikipedia, and saw that is an apparatus built at the end of the 19th century by Siemens and Halske. Inside it there was a handle which you had to turn to set off an alarm by the Fire Brigade:

Another almost deserted street: 

And the trees are turning colour fast:

 Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Miss Jones' Birthday

Hi Everybody!

Hope you are enjoying your weekend. The weather here is still good, so 

I have been out walking and spent the rest of my time playing in

my arty kitchen - fun!

The image I used for this journal page for Art Journal Journal, back to school, is from Gecko Galz, and it looks like a scene out of the 50's. I love the way the kids are celebrating their Miss Jones' birthday. I always got little presents from my students, too, and it is good to feel appreciated. I used a vintage paper background, and added the text and the sentiments. 

I gave the image a filter to loosen the edges a bit.

This morning started off looking quite stormy, but it soon cleared and we had good weather.

Today I saw a small heron, which I have never seen before. It's about a third of the size of the large ones we usually have here. It's always exciting to discover 'new' species!

Autumn is on its wa, even though we still have summer temperatures:

The rain we had in the night made the fungi shoot up:

Have a great day, have fun, and take care.

Thanks a lot for coming by!

Weekend Mix

Hi Everybody!

It's weekend at last - enjoy!

For Art Journal Journey, Elizabeth's theme of back to school, I have a vintage image (Gecko Galz) of a girl sitting at her desk. We still had desks like that in  couple of classes at school, black with age and full of scribbles of generations past. It was fun to try to decipher the writing instead of listening to the physics teacher....The background was painted and then digitally overlayed with various layers of script. The quote is by Einstein, 'Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one learned in school'

Yesterday I watched the moon rise in the evening, it was pale and hardly visible at first:

As the sky darkened it took on more colours:

I was up very early again and stood outside on the balcony and watched the sky slowly grow light:

The swan was swimming on the Rhine today, right by the ferry, it didn't seem to worry it at all:

And the heron was staring at the water and waiting for a careless

fish to swim by:

I saw this butterfly in the midst of some bushes as I went by:

That was my day, how was your's?

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!