1. January 2018

 

New Year's Day. 

A fresh start. 

A new chapter in life waiting to be written. 

New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. 

Answers to be discovered 

and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. 

Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. 

Only dreams give birth to change.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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HAPPY  NEW  YEAR

BONNE  ANNEE

FROHES und  GESUNDES  NEUES  JAHR !

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"For last year's words belong to last year's language

And this year's words await another voice."

T.S. Eliot

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. Goran Persson
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Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. Goran Persson
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/goran_persson_178599?src=t_newyears

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. Goran Persson
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/goran_persson_178599?src=t_newyea

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a bientòt....

"BY INVITATION ONLY" - Oktober 2017

As announced yesterday the event of  "BY INVITATION ONLY" is back!

Originally initiated 5 years ago by Marsha from SPLENDEROSA
now as a "reprise" by D.A.Wolf 

Our first subject for this month, for October:
Welcoming the Autumn Season - Custom Party - Halloween
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I welcome here the Autumn Season 
with my
"PUMPKIN - PARADE..."

...fell in love with them - as every year.

Perfect for decorate the house with all kind of still lifes...
bringing some color into daily life..
  
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I went Friday to our weekly market in nearby Riberac to see what I can find,
knowing that there is a small stand with very special home grown vegetables. 
Remembered from last year that
if I like to have some special pumkins - I'll find them there....

And YES -

they had the most beautiful and interesting pumpkins.  

...and I went mad....

 How can one resist....?

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 Back home ....

I simply love them!

   

"A CHAOS IN ORDER....?"

 

 Or simply nature's own ART

 

... like old fossils...

Any questions ???

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 Each one with its own personality....

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...makes them so perfect for any kind of still lifes....

ideal for the table decoration when arranged on old white stoneware...

...for example.

 ...Standing up proudly...

"Advise from a Pumpkin"

Be well-rounded
Get plenty of sunshine
Give thanks to life's bounty
Have a sick skin
Keep growing... 

....Be outstanding in your field !

(Author unknown)

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 Ready for the next party....

....a Custom Party in my Fantasy...

Ladies and Gentlemen to be dressed in the 15th/16th century style

using autumn colors or at least a suggestion of red. 

Colors to be suitable to my Pumpkin-Parade ;-) !

And me ?

Just to give a suggestion of Halloween...

..what's wrong with that....

"waring my faith but as the fashion of my hat"

...to paraphrase William Shakespeare 

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 The diner:  probably pumpkin soup....

.....cheese and bread....

....and certainly a lot of wine....

...only the best - St. Emilion Grand Cru...what else!

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Old Master's Autumn Still Lifes:

From left to right:

Jan Mortel - 1650-1719 -----Johan Laurenz Jensen - 1800-1856

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Michelangeo Cerquozzi - 1602-1660

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There is something special in pumkins, something so attractive...

A Modern one..

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Happy Autumn - 

...and...

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Ha-Ha-Ha...

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Hope that you will enjoy this little Pumpkine parade...

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Please pop over to D.A.Wolf's blog

DAYLY PLATE OF CRAZY

to read and enjoy all the posts from our group

click  here

Welcome you all back to my blog,

to the "reprise" of the "BIO" envent

and wishing you a wonderful October!

For those of you who celebrate Halloween, Custom parties...

ENJOY !

A bientôt - Karin

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Before I forget....

You might like Loi's  "Pumkin Parade"

at the Tone on Tone blog

here - Autumn in Maine 

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REMARK:

All Antique Ceramic and Stoneware platters

available here

All Souls

The first two days of November are Allerheiligen (Nov. 1) - All Saints
and Allerseelen (Nov. 2) - All Souls.

Related to Halloween, 
these two holy days are devoted to all of the saints (known and unknown) 
and to all of the “faithful departed,” respectively. 

In medieval English, All Saint's Day was known as All Hallows.
 All Hallows Eve (Oct. 31) came to be called “Halloween.”



Ruins of    
 All Saints' Abbey (Kloster Allerheiligen) 
which was a Premonstratensian monastery near Oppenau 
in the Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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All Soul's Day is always November 2,
it is a time when families fondly remember the deceased.

All Soul's Day, 1888
Jakub (or Jakob) Schikaneder 
(February 27, 1855, Prague – November 15, 1924, Prague)

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 All Soul's Day is a day of remembrance 

for friends and loved ones who have passed away. 

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This comes from the ancient Pagan Festival of the Dead, 

which celebrated the Pagan belief that the souls of the dead would return for a meal with the family. 

Candles in the window would guide the souls back home, and another place was set at the table. 

Children would come through the village, asking for food to be offered symbolically to the dead, 

then donated to feed the hungry. 

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The traditions of the Feast of All Souls began independently of the Feast of All Saints. 
The Feast of All Souls owes its beginning to 7th century monks 
who decided to offer the mass on the day after Pentecost for their deceased community members. 
In the late 10th century, the Benedictine monastery in Cluny, France,
chose to move their mass for their dead to November 2, the day after the Feast of all Saints.
 This custom spread and in the 13th century, 
Rome put the feast on the calendar of the entire Church. 
The date remained November 2 
so that all in the Communion of the Saints might be celebrated together.

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 Wish you all a peaceful and reflective Sunday.

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Jacub Schikaneder:

Schikaneder came from the family of a German customs office clerk. Despite the family's poor background, he was able to pursue his studies, thanks in part to his family's love of art; an ancestor was Urban Schikaneder, the elder brother of the librettist Emanuel Schikaneder. After having completed his studies in Prague and Munich (1871–1879), Schikaneder, alongside Emanuel Krescenc Liška (cs), was involved in the furnishing of the royal box in the National Theatre in Prague; however, this work was lost in a fire in 1881. After his work in the National Theatre, Schikaneder travelled through Europe, visiting Germany, England, Scotland, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy and France. From 1891 until 1923 he taught in Prague's Art College. Schikaneder counted amongst those who admired the Munich School of the end of the 19th century.

He died in 1924 and was buried in Vinohrady Cemetery in Prague.

info source  here