Happy July!

    Happy July to all my Friends and Readers
New Calendar picture with this

beautiful watercolour painting by Frank Koebsch
"The Small Copper Butterfly's Play of Colours"

"Farbspiel des Kleinen Feuerfalters"

 Frank says to this picture:

"Für das Kalenderblatt Juli haben wir ein Schmetterlingsaquarell ausgewählt. Das Bild zeigt eine Szene mit einem Feuerfalter auf den Blüten des Rainfarns."

"For the July calendar page, we have selected a watercolour painting of a butterfly. The image depicts a scene featuring a small copper butterfly on the blossoms of a tansy plant."

Such a cute picture, don't you think. And it shows the yellow of the sun that we have every day at the moment.

Read more on their website here. *

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I wrote last month, that I had been ill for several weeks. I am getting better, the worst part is over, only a few little ailments stay behind.

However, my illness foreshadowed an even worse event. My brother passed away after battling a brain tumour for three years. We will all miss him tremendously.

༉‧₊˚🕯️🖤❀༉‧₊˚.

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For the German word of the month, I will repeat one that I used earlier in a post. It is used used to refer to general disorder or a jumble. 

"Kuddelmuddel". 

I was trying to find the origin of the word but it is not totally clear. It's assumed to be from Low German origin. "Muddeln" means something like "mud" or "muck" (Modder in low German).

Wikipedia tells us: "The onomatopoeic compound 'Kuddelmuddel' most likely spread from Berlin in the mid-19th century." They even mention my favourite author, Thomas Mann who, like me, spoke Low German, and used this word in his novella "The Transposed Heads" (Die vertauschten Köpfe) which I should probably read.

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Since I have not read any great books this month, I will go back to Thomas Mann and one of my favourite books ever: Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family. I really recommend 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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☀️😎 I wish you all a very Happy July! 😎☀️