dc COAT (No 165)

My favorite coat:

knee-lenght, waisted and with a nice shaped, big collar and coat-pockets

Fly front and even the belt is modest.

 I would add a brooch sometimes or a belt buckle just as an accessory

– and these pink of the gloves for the coat would be nice!

I have collected some twigs of willow catkin 

(their days were numbered... but I temporized the theme of dear Patrice this week ;-)

Ha! and her theme fits perfectly! It's COAT. 

Because of the changing temperatures in April (and May) sometimes I wish a coat, that's soft and cuddly like made of the catkins (and no animal has to die for my wish)

btw: the colors of rhubarb are my favorite, too.

I am late, sorry for that.
Wish you a cosy Sunday evening (Mother natures douses the trees here)
 I will come to your coats, now, via my sweet friend Patrice,
our hostess of this week's drawing challenge No 165! thank you!

PS: even a kind of coat: 

Print 'Hanami' by Patrice 

'Rose and bug' by Ritva Palander

Booklet 'Blossoms' Hermine van Dijck

Plate by Celinda Versluis

Ablenkung / Diversion

Das Licht ist so schön

das Grün so zart und der Himmel so blau

drinnen muss dringend

geputzt werden

jetzt ist auch noch der Mond da

- den Auftrag mache ich morgen fertig

hoffentlich

/

The light is so very beautiful

the green very dainty and the sky very blue

inside I have to clean

urgent

now the moon comes out

on top of that

- I will settle the big job tomorrow

hopefully

(and the dc No 165... COAT at Patrice's this weekend)

In Hülle und Fülle

Happy birthday to all birthday youngsters, today:

Dani@ome with sweet baby boy and Stephanie on a farm in Colorado
und ... (wünsche Dir nur das Beste in Hülle und Fülle)

wish you all the best abundant

Für alle: Sonne im Herzen
for all: sun in the heart
.

drawing challenge No 164: GRASS

In my family we love to have a picnic

and I loved to play outside with my sister

Imagine a cave in a clump of flowering shrubs behind the house.

Like in a huge nest my sister and me padded out the ground with fresh tufts of grass, 

built a carpet of it (the adults weren't happy 'bout destroying the lawn)

We played 'neighbourhood' with our friends in the next bushes: we visited us, barefoot, brought some fruits and Schnökerkram, sweets, from the little corner shop.

For this week's drawing challenge No 164 dear Veronica is our host. Her theme is GRASS. 

I have taken my old linocut of green roses {made it in 1993, you find more of it here} have drawn with oil crayon a tuft of grass and added soil.

Strandtreppe, 1970

Strandtreppe, 2015

My sister Irena lives over 20 years in Canada. 

She and Frédéric came for a visit to Hamburg (Mom's birthday. It was her voiceover in a short film by the ecology group in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg, started with: "The grass is green, but toxic..." in the early 80th). They are already back in Montréal, now. I have padded the ground of my heart with fresh sweet memories...

Thank you for your visit. 

I wish you a sunny Sunday, outside and indoors!

(in Montréal und Hamburg... and around the world)

For more GRASS please come to Veronica's pretty place 

update: {Ostern (Mond) Reflexion} + new dc theme

Auf dem Land habe ich darauf gewartet, dass der Vollmond aufgeht
At the countryside I have waited, that the full moon rises
.

In der Zwischenzeit fand ich ein paar andere Reflexionen
Int the meantime I found some other reflexions
.

und dann, plötzlich
and then, suddenly
:

la luna

Am nächsten Morgen rezitierten eine Freundin und ich 

wie aus einem Mund den Osterspaziergang von Goethes Faust

At the next morning a friend and me recited with one voice 

the Outside of the Gate from Goethe's Faust

:

"
(...) Denn sie sind selber auferstanden
For they themselves have now arisen (...)
"

Wieder Zuhause haben wir unser Familientreffen
Back home we have our family reunion

Hope you are fine, too, dear friends.

I will come to your Keys from the drawing challenge soon! Nosy nosy!

update: Next host of the drawing challenge (No. 164) is Veronica, again (thank you, Dear). 
Her new theme is GRASS for this weekend, the 11th + 12th of April
Say "yes" here, please.