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Self Portrait
Summer is here. Well, not really, but it felt like it Sunday. It was 18 Celsius in the vineyards above Sulzburg. It was warm and sunny, a great day for a socially distanced walk on the Castellberg. Especially when a bench beckoned in the sunshine, a perfect place for fresh apple crisp and coffee from […]
Rubbing It In
My Canadian friends are reminding me that Winter is nowhere near over. I read news reports of record low temperatures in Texas. Weather seems to be a topic of conversation everywhere. Most of the time the comments aren’t complimentary. Not wanting to make anyone envious (or maybe I do), it appears Winter is over where […]
Speaking Your Truth
You’ve heard people say it. You may even have agreed with it. “Speak your truth.” “I needed to speak my truth.” It is time to confess: I’m getting so tired of “truth.” I want to but all these truth-speakers a dictionary so they can look up the word. “your truth” just doesn’t exist. Neither does […]
Thoughts For Monday
I thought I should say something inspiring to start the work week – and this is what Google suggested. I figure computers rule our lives anyway, so I went with it. Not that I endorse its message completely. It seems somewhat dated. I agree we should focus on what is important, though it would help […]
Playing With Toys
They seemed a little embarrassed at first, but as my wife asked questions they warmed to the topic. They had looked rather out of place walking along the path. We came across this grey-haired couple on one of our afternoon walks. From a distance we weren’t completely sure what was going on. They couldn’t be […]
Groundhog Day – Again
For many people, it feels like we are stuck in a pandemic loop. Every day is just like the previous one, with no way of getting off this treadmill. When will it ever end? I have seen it likened on many occasions to the 1993 film Groundhog Day, which tells the story of a weatherman […]
Snow Angels
Wandering through Sulzburg’s Kurpark in the snowstorm a couple of weeks ago I came across a woman making snow angels. Not something you think of as an adult activity. When I was a child we would make snow angels by lying down in freshly fallen snow and moving our arms and legs. The resulting impression […]
Black Forest In Winter II
Took my camera instead of just my phone. And a different trail from the one in the previous post. A day later, there had been more people out – I wasn’t breaking new ground through the snow. In some places I could see that there are cross-county skiers in the area. I wonder how often […]
Black Forest In Winter I
I’ve seen pictures from years gone by, but this was the first time I experienced it myself. In this fashion anyway. I’ve walked through the Black Forest in winter before, but this month was the first time I was able to do so in snow. Needless to say, it was quite different. I think Sulzburg […]
First Snow
“Take your boots back to Canada,” my wife told me in November. “You are never going to use them here.” The winter boots are an ongoing joke. I bought them in the fall of 2017, making sure I was prepared for the winter all my German friends assured me was coming. Except it didn’t. Throughout […]
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