Rose

Mittwoch, 7. September 2016

Memo

Es geht langsam voran. Nicht immer linear, doch stetig geht es weiter. In Wellen.

Dranbleiben. Flexible Beharrlichkeit (Memo an mich selbst)

It goes on, slowly. Not straight, but continual. In waves.

Stay on the ball. Flexible persistence (memo to myself)

PS: I lag behind the AC... so sorry! 'll visit you, in waves ;-)

Dienstag, 6. September 2016

Jeden ersten Freitag nach den Sommerferien feiern wir in der Burg am Eisenbach ein
Nachbarschaftsfest hinterm Haus. Dieses Jahr feierten wir am Samstag vor dem Haus mit allen
Nachbarn drumherum: nach dem Feuer 2014 sind jetzt (fast) alle wieder eingezogen:
wir sind wieder da!

Each first Friday after the school holidays we have in the Castle at the Eisenbach
a party with the neighbours behind the house. This year we partied at Saturday
in front of the house together with all neighbours:
after the fire (nearly) all of us were moved back, now:

we are back home!

Leckereien von unserem Griechen,
selbstgebackenen Kuchen satt und süße Gäste,
Jung und Alt tanzten auf der Straße bis in die Nacht, ein großer Spaß!

Dainties from our Greek,
home-made cake and cute guests,
the young and the old danced in the street into the night, big fun!
(but, we and 2 other families are still waiting
for the claims settlement...)

Freitag, 2. September 2016

in color

The color version of the bouquet.

I've bought the flowers from the market today*

It is Friday today and I am at home in the Castle at the Eisenbach – on my own

for the first time after 6 weeks school holidays.

I've sketched out some letters in big size and we've colored it with busy neighbourladies.

'cause: Tomorrow we will have a celebration!

(it reeks of home-baked cake on the balcony)

I will report :-) Happy weekend to you!

Love, Ariane. Rose

* Cosmea, quinces, spindle tree, purple snapdragon, leaves of raspberry, green rose hips – and roses (sorry, dear florist Geli, but I have to add roses to it!)

Montag, 29. August 2016

Himmelsreise {Kopenhagen 2016}

Wir fuhren zu einer himmlischen Feier nach Kopenhagen

– ein schöner Rausch!

We drove for a heavenly party to Copenhagen

– a lovely rapture!

Auf dem Rückweg färbte sich der Himmel

erst donnergrau und wechselte dann zu rosa

On the way home the heaven turned

thunder gray first and changed then to pink

{Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag, liebste Viola!}

[Get well soon, dear Frédéric]

Some more pics? Here

PS: This spontaneously journey was the reason for my silence at the Art Challenge last weekend.
I will come around to you, soon (after a fine nap)!

Samstag, 27. August 2016

AC#197: A Room with a View

Many glasses were emptied

in the Castle at the Eisenbach

and filled, again, in this heaven!

I love the balcony, that view! (the moon!)

that sound of the Eisenbach, the birds and trees!

It's A {real} Room with a View:

'A Room with a View'

is a novel by Edward Morgan Forster (1908),

member of the Edwardian Bloomsbury Group

the „Bloomsberries"

Have you seen the berry-pink cloth on the table in the vid?

Well... ahem... actually I wanted to dye the cloth
with pearls wrapped inside and outside
for a nice pattern like the negative of berries on it
in the color of berries for this Art Challenge

but

The cloth dyed completely... no berry-pattern,
too small the pearls, I think, and overnight... hm

Interestingly I've driften in my mind from
'A Room with a View' by E. M. Forster to another member
of the Bloomsbury Group: to Virginia Woolf with a
'A Room of one's own'

It reminds me on:

'It's all about the space'
our print of our Summergathering 2016
at Patrice A.'s with Barbara Bee and
woolfy Nadine, our host of this Art Challenge

It's all about the space
to abandon oneself to idleness
to find the creative flow
to hear the inner voice
to follow the heart...

There is no room for myself in the Castle, even not a table
(and it is really hard. It makes me aggressive, sometimes, these interruptions!)
and
there is room everywhere
the earth is my table and the heaven my space

AC
...

No. 195 GARDEN PARTY

No. 196 BLUE

For this Art Challenge No. 197 this weekend (27th + 28th of August)
is woolfy Nadine-tje's our host. It was she, who strikes a chord for
A Room with a View

Make sure to enjoy the view over at her place!

In the vid I show a photo of Julia Stephen
mother to Virginia Woolf taken by
the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron

aunt to Julia Stephen

Great-aunt to Virgina Woolf

She started in the age of 48 with photographing

Happy weekend to y'all! And yes, I am happy that we start again with the Art Challenge!

{PS: Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag. liebe Zaroya!}