March 23, 2024

*The first snowdrops & 17 years together

{Music: Light and Water – Rasmus H Thomsen}

I always forget to post my little movies here, so a little later again:

First little signs of spring are brightening up the otherwise gloomy days. On our anniversary we visited an old ruin castle where we had an amazing view over the Kamptal area.
 

March 22, 2024

*hiding sun


Impressions of the autumn-like days that we had throughout February and most of March. I love how this series turned out though! I'm slowly taking up my brushes again and trying to get into a routine. Yesterday I also cleaned the greenhouse and started to prune the raspberries. We had several days with frost and minus degrees in the nights, but it seems the coming days will get milder again.
Tiny heads of stinging nettles are popping out of the ground, so I started my yearly nettle cure. I'm looking forward to all the fresh greens that soon are available again and and the different tree blooms and that it will become spring here in my blog as well!

March 20, 2024

*High flight


Today I was browsing through one of my old diaries (from 2006) where I had written down a poem by the Anglo-American pilot John Gillespie Magee Jr. who fought in WW2. He died when he was 19 years old.

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of wheeled and soared and swung.
High in the sunlit silence, Hov’ring there
I’ve chased the shouting wind along and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long delirious burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor even eagle flew
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

March 10, 2024

*reunited


We found the last deer yesterday in the early morning hours dead in our garden. At least it is reunited with the others again. I'm running out of tears lately. Storms Night and Day, reflecting the turmoil inside of me. The bad news are not breaking off and I long for a pause to be able to process all that has happened this year already. 

March 08, 2024

*Returning to the comfort of words


Two days ago we celebrated my Birthday with a walk at the river where billions of snowdrops are covering the ground right now, the weather was quite grey again and windy. We met a men who was working with a logging horse in the forest. He told us that wood work with horses is not as seldom as we often assume. Nowadays a lot of wood work is done with huge harvesters and they destroy so much in the forests, the work with a logging horse is a lot less invasive.

Unfortunately only one deer remained of the flock that lived in the area around our house. It is a little one, that has found refuge in our garden recently. First it only came from time to time to graze, but since several days it also sleeps there and does not even flee when we are near. Don't know how to lead it to a safer area. It always goes back to the place where it has lost the others. The street is so near, it's really a dilemma.

March 05, 2024

*spring dreams



Welcome to March!
I don't know where to start, it feels already so long ago, since I last sat down to write here, the last month has been so emotional exhausting and full of worries, that I was not able to take up my brushes to paint at all (those "spring dream" paintings are from January), but also unexpected nice things happened. First signs of spring have shown up so early! I found first snowdrops and the apricot trees are starting to bloom already! Now only the sun has to follow – we had mostly gloomy days throughout February. No snow at all, but I don't know if I can trust the weather enough to start preparing for the new garden season, let's see...
In any case I hope you had a good start into March and that it will bring you lots of spring flowers and good feelings! Until soon!

February 25, 2024

*Slowly welcoming the new year & floating through winter

{Music: With You – Matteo  De Grandis}

I forgot to post my latest youtube video here as well, it's from end of January/start of February:
A little later than usual I started to welcome the new year and film a little every now and then. Even though I am longing for spring earlier than ever, I still enjoy to float through those distinct winter days. We had mistiness like in autumn and some frost every now and then but also some sunshine for the soul, I had my first spring flowers on the windowsill and enjoyed the calmness of the mornings.

February 19, 2024

*Iceheart


The beauty of ice.

February 17, 2024

*holding the pieces together


A lot of burdening things are happening lately. It's an emotional very demanding time.
It decreases my joy to blog, because it feels senseless somehow. To distract my mind a bit I started to do jigsaw puzzles again. I loved to do them as a child with my family and also alone.
I just came back from a nature walk, we did not have any snow in February and I also don't think that we will get any this month still. But we had a little frost every now and then and misty days like in autumn, but today the sun was out for a moment and the mood of the clouds was stunning. It really felt like walking in a painting of the great masters of art.

February 08, 2024

*ceramic dish set


This dish set had to wait the longest for being finished, I started them back in summer when the Roman fennel was in full bloom. It's such a nice thought to have tea in one the cups that comes from the same fennel plant like I made the imprints with.