Happy May to all my Friends and Readers
New Calendar picture with this
beautiful watercolour painting by Frank Koebsch
"Das Cliff am Südstrand von Sellin im Frühling"
"The Cliff on the South Beach of Sellin in Spring"
Frank says to this picture:
"Es macht immer wieder Spaß, an der Ostsee direkt am Strand zu malen. Einfach mit den Füßen im Stand zu stehen, dem Rauschen der Wellen und den Möwen zuzuhören, die Sonne und den Wind auf der Haut zu spüren."
"It's always a pleasure to paint right on the beach at the Baltic Sea. Simply standing with my feet planted on the sand, listening to the sound of the waves and the seagulls, feeling the sun and the wind on my skin."
I can imagine how beautiful it must be to spend a day on the beach painting - if the weather plays along. I love being at the beach, the air is just wonderful.
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We just happened to go to an open air museum that has three different kinds of windmills, depending on which part of the construction is moving.
We just happened to go to an open air museum that has three different kinds of windmills, depending on which part of the construction is moving.
We haven't been to the beach last month, but we were able to see a beautiful windmill in a small open air museum in Bad Zwischenahn.
If you haven't seen enough windmills for today, I did a collage of some last year in May (see here). Seems like this is the month for windmills.
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Since we find more and more people like that nowadays, I will choose this German word of the month:
Schubladendenken
Schubladendenken
I checked whether there is an English translation for that and found pigeonholing and stereotyping. I think I prefer the latter. We are talking about narrow-mindedness, bigotedness, blindness, ignorance, obstinacy. Haven't we all lost friends we thought were nice people until they let out their political thinking?
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This month was the first time in years that I didn't finish a book. A friend had lent it to me and I told her I didn't like another one I had read by that author but I would try this. It was even worse. No more books by Ian McEwan.
With my local book club we discussed "The List of Suspicious Things" by Jennie Godfrey. We all quite liked it.
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* You can also have a look under my labels Artist: Frank Koebsch and Artist: Hanka Koebsch where you can find all my posts about the two artists.
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