Happy July to all my friends and readers
New Calendar picture with this
beautiful watercolour painting by Franka Koebsch
"Sommerwiese mit Mohnblüten"
"Summer Meadow with Poppies"
Frank says to this picture:
"Poppy watercolours are a delight at any time of year. In September, most of the poppy flowers have already faded, but here and there you can still find poppy flowers on the edges of fields or in meadows."
"Mohnaquarelle begeistern zu jeder Jahreszeit. Im September sind die meisten Mohnblüten bereits verblüht, aber hier und da findet in Randlagen noch Mohnblüten an den Feldrändern oder auf den Wiesen."
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beautiful watercolour painting by Franka Koebsch
"Sommerwiese mit Mohnblüten"
"Summer Meadow with Poppies"
"Poppy watercolours are a delight at any time of year. In September, most of the poppy flowers have already faded, but here and there you can still find poppy flowers on the edges of fields or in meadows."
"Mohnaquarelle begeistern zu jeder Jahreszeit. Im September sind die meisten Mohnblüten bereits verblüht, aber hier und da findet in Randlagen noch Mohnblüten an den Feldrändern oder auf den Wiesen."
Read more on their website here. *
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June was an awful month for many, we had heavy rainfalls in Germany and a lot of areas were flooded. Not ours, but we know quite a few people who had to experience damages to their houses. In the meantime, it has become far too hot for my liking. And no, I am not one of those people who complain about the cold in winter and the heat in summer. I always say, in winter, I can dress accordingly, put on more clothes and I'm fine. In summer, that does not help.
I hope the last of the climate change deniers has woken up in the meantime but I doubt it.
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My
favourite book last month was "10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World" by Elif Şafak. It was a sad subject but great writing.
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We had a family celebration down in Southern Germany and they served one of my favourite side dishes: Spätzle (Wikipedia).
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The old German word for July is Heuert or Heumond.
They used to start mowing the hay this month. Another word is Honigmond, which simply translated into honeymoon as a lot of weddings would take place in summer and people then went for a honeymoon. But the meaning of the "hay moon" is a lot older, of course.
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That's a perfect watercolor for July! Love it. :D
ReplyDeleteI totally agree, Lark. I love the combination of cornflowers, poppies and daisies, reminds me of my youth when all the cornfields were full of them.
DeleteHappy July!
Love the watercolor, Josh, my oldest is coming for a visit so I’m happy. Glad you are able to have family reunions.
ReplyDeleteJust read Ariel Lawhon’s Frozen River. It’s a great historical novel and about midwifery in the 1700’s, base on a real person who attended over 1,000 births and never lost a Mom.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds great, Janet.
DeleteI suppose, you also wrote the anonymous comment, the name Josh gave it away. ;)
I know how happy you must be to see Josh, it's always so much joy for us mums whose kids live far away.
Your novel sounds interesting. I'll have to look it up. Thanks.
Pretty flowers in the picture, Marianne! My best friend from high school moved to Swabia and loves Spätzle. It is also too hot here, almost every day we get 30 degrees and high humidity, sometimes over 90 %. I feel like I am living in a greenhouse.
ReplyDeleteYeah, welcome to my world. It gets hotter and hotter every year (and there are still people who don't believe in global warming/climate change).
DeleteI got introduced to Spätzle by my husband's family from Baden but in the meantime, they are well known everywhere in Germany.
We never ate Spätzle when I was growing up and I don't think many of my relatives do, but most of my family lives north of Frankfurt :).
DeleteWell, no, Eva, when we were younger, that was not a thing in Northern Germany. But it is today. There is hardly a restaurant that doesn't offer it. And you can buy them ready made in every supermarket. Not that they are the same as the home-made ones but it shows that people like them.
DeleteI guess that is true, there is more international and regional cuisine everywhere.
DeleteÁnd that's a good thing.
DeleteJust all spicy dishes are not for me! Americans love black pepper and I hate pepper.
DeleteI would have thought you got used to them in the meantime. In our American church in NL, there were many Americans who liked to cook spicy. But a lot of them were from Mexico or South American because they are the Catholic ones. In any case, I love spicy food.
DeleteNo, I will never get used to it. I think I hate it even more now than when I was younger. I think all Americans like black pepper and I hate it :).
DeleteWhat a shame. Well, at least you went to the North East. Their taste is a little more European.
DeleteTrue.
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