Friday, 29 March 2013

Loving Easter Greetings.....


...with

Albrecht Dürer's
Young Hare

  "Junger Feldhase"  (1502)

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Tizian's

  Madonna and child with St. Catherine and a Rabbit 
(1530, Louvre Paris)

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The Holy Family with Three Hares

Albrecht Dürer, 1496

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...with 

 
 fresh Easter farm eggs....

and....

"Osterglocken"  
- yes "Easter bells", that's what we also call Daffodils in Germany -

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See the land, her Easter keeping,
Rises as her Maker rose.
Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping,
Burst at last from winter snows. 




 Earth with heaven above rejoices;
Fields and gardens hail the spring;
Shaughs and woodlands ring with voices,
While the wild birds build and sing. 





You, to whom your Maker granted
Powers to those sweet birds unknown,
Use the craft by God implanted;
Use the reason not your own.
Here, while heaven and earth rejoices,
Each his Easter tribute bring-
Work of fingers, chant of voices,
Like the birds who build and sing. 

 by Charles Kingsley


FROHE  OSTERN!




HAPPY  EASTER !




JOYEUSES  PAQUES !



The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings.
The happy earth looks at the sky
And sings.
Easter by Joyce Kilmer



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Saturday, 16 March 2013

Oskar's new French blog-buddy


...Filou


 Filou lives - very comfortable! - in the Limousin,
(not far from us, about one and a half hour drive)
in a French Antiquaire's and passionate collector's house,
here

being elegantly surrounded by...
 
 
...old silk and textiles,  here
 and  here


 ...by collections of antique books...



 Livres anciens

 

 ...old scripts and documents...


 here

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Yes....Filou has certainly a - rather luxurious - happy life... 
amidst of...

 
...plumes...



...embroidery...


and...


...historical costumes
here





Hmmh...



....whereas Oskar prefers more the rural "rough side"...
 living amongst old country pieces...
checking-out here my inventories...??... ha-ha...



...being surrounded by old linen and hemp...



 ...he is most happy....

 

...having a little snooze
 on top of old German grain sacks...


 oh well....that's heaven!

And while he's probably dreaming about his new blogger friend Filou
;-)

we've received Violettes from  his mistress Marie Claude...


Spring greetings from her wonderful French garden
 here

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Bon week-end à tout le monde...



...purr - purr !

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And to all our Irish friends...

 
 Happy St. Patrick's Day!





Saturday, 9 March 2013

"Spring development...."


Day one...

....first blossoms on our  
"we don't know what kind of tree" 
 It is the earliest flowering one of all our fruit trees
with late ripening fruits like large cherries,
providing a feast for the birds in June/July!

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Day two....

...literally over night !



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Under normal weather condition 
- normal for our region the Périgord -
first buds and blossoms appear in early to mid February!
But since a few years and harder winters
flowering starts later and later...and later...
Nothing seems to be "normal" any longer...

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Oh, 'those days' in February with clear blue skies
and warm temperatures...


 ...when Oskar was just about one year old, 6 years ago,
and loved to climb up into that tree...



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Bon Weekend !



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Thanks to all my dear blogger friends for your kind and lovely comments
to my previous post "the red-truck-dream" and all the others!
Now - I'm back to earth!