Autumn weekend

Hi Everybody!

It's got very chilly here in Rhineland, winter is stretching its cold fingers out to remind us of what it has in store! Today was grey, but mostly dry and I was able to get out and about for my walks without getting wet, so it could have been worse!

Today we are remembering the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the 80th Anniversary of the 'Reichs Pogrom Nacht' - often called 'Crystal night', which sounds rather harmless. The Nazis started pogroms in almost every town and village in Germany, the synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses were smashed, burnt and looted, and 10,000 people arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps, just on this one night.  The father of Erika, whose photo you saw on my tag yesterday, was one of them. His family was forced to sell their business, house and everything they owned to pay the fine levied on him for being Jewish, and were able to escape three weeks later to South America. Many others were not so lucky, and I think you all know what happened to 6 million others....

Today I have another tag for Michele's 'Seeds and plants' theme at Tag Tuesday

The harvest image is from Gecko Galz, the other images from Serif and me. The quote is from Ecclesiastes chapter 3:

Some more autumnal pics:

Enjoy your weekend, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Weekend post

Hi Everybody!

Today I have another tag for Michele's seeds and plants theme at Tag Tuesday, and hope some more people will join us there. I used a vintage photo of Erika, dressed in her vintage finery, taken in 1919. In the background - another photo of mine, changed to look like a window - you can see seeds falling from the trees to the ground, and even huge trees grow from tiny seeds:

I am re-showing a piece made back in 2015, an A3  torn paper version of Wilhem Morgner's landscape showing a sower, as it fits nicely to the seeds theme. I tore the pieces in form, drew the sower and fussy cut him, and doodled the rest after sewing it all together:

The original is from the German expressionist Wilhelm Morgner,

and this painting is in the Kunstpalast art museum in Düsseldorf. He died at the age of 27 in the first world war:

And you have seen our 'green man' many times on my coffee photos. The sculpture is from Fritz Klimsch (1912) and is also called 'The sower':

I am linking to Paint Party Friday

Some pics from this week.

The Wednesday market by the Rhine:

The seagulls:

  Morning walks:

Way to go with all the leaves:

The flowers on my balcony all died off in summer when it was so hot. They have now grown back, and started flowering on cool and wet November 1st:

Dark clouds and sunshine:

Have a great day, take care,
and thanks a lot for coming by!

Crisp and Brilliant

Hi Everybody!

It's another grey and dismal day here, but I'm still hoping the sun will peek through sooner or later!
Today I am joining Rain at her Thursday art date where the theme is crisp and brilliant. I have no idea what others will be making for this theme, but it made me think of cold and frosty days. The first piece is an altered photo, set into a frosty frame:

The second one is the view from my balcony on a cold, wintry night back in 2014, which has been given a digital frame:

This one is my fave - a photo from my wonderful and never forgotten dog Scruffy, who loved playing in the snow, also with an added frame and a quote. All frames are from Serif:

I am linking to Rain's Thursday Art Date and

Paint Party Friday

The little town I live in is very ancient, but last Sunday I even saw a unicorn wandering through the castle ruins. There were some very strange happenings there, which I was able to photograph in passing by:

And yes, a unicorn!

I have no idea what they were doing, but lots of passers-by had fun watching and taking pics!

And this strange person was seen yesterday walking along the Rhine with a friend:

Back soon with more pics!

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!