June and July 2019

Starting with a new project - a lovely pattern by Svetlana Gordon, but

changing the shape into a scarf was no success - she knitted a coat - 

she is a real knitting artist.

https://www.ravelry.com/designers/svetlana-gordon. 

wonderful designs - it is worthwhile

to have a look at her creations

So I cut the thread (above) and unraveled all of it (below)



wound it up and made it wet - and dried it on the line - it is like new now!

Then the new pattern - much less counting - will this lead to a  scarf?

I intend to keep up knitting this time - I even ordered more wool

and got exactly the same colour and production number -

bravo Junghans-Wolle

Meanwhile we are back in Germany - making little walks in Altensteig,

Schwarzwald

admiring sculptures

and fake windows in Berneck.

Berneck is part of Altensteig (Blackforest) 

Old town Altensteig - Schwarzwald

Taking a walk into the old town Altensteig

steep roads - 200 years old houses

high - very high - people have to go up many steps

restaurant and old town hall (below) with clock ringing the hours.

and down again

Summer heat and more

Lots and lots of yellow little plums  - we call them Mirabellen

Most of them are in the freezer without kernels (2nd photo), or on

already eaten cakes, ha! - or in jam jars.

We fled the garden because of heat and are spending days 

in the cooler Black Forest - Schwarzwald - meeting up with 

friends - new friends of the gymnastics club - in the historic town

of Altensteig - built in the 13th century with its castle as a stronghold.  

We are eating, drinking and chatting - until it is time to drive up to

a place where we can watch the eclipse of the moon -

a very high point called Kapf - 825 m above sea level

 Ok - we saw the moon now and then - slowly moving up in a wonderful

orange color - every so often covered by clouds - but Mars could also

be figured out „below“ the moon.

Driving home we had a wonderful sight of the illuminated town Altensteig.

The photo is far from the real view but with the photo of the map of the

town you can imagine a little - a better view of the town with description 
and webcam here

The red arrow shows the place where we sat in the street behind the larger house 

constructed in 1459 - renovated in the 1980ies - with a quaint restaurant

on the ground floor - I saw the kitchen!

And my admiration for the ladies who are preparing delicious Flammkuchen in there:

dark, very small, crammed full with things. Flammkuchen is made of yeast dough

with lard, onions and cream - the paste being very, very thin.... 

Summer in Berneck

Destashing cotton yarn - crocheting over a clothline - something useful

for the table

Sweet peas from a neighbor`s garden but growing outside of the fence

...and fallow-dear in a private park near our house

so tame no fear - behind the fence

Breakfast on the market place - coffee and delicacies for free

for everybody - we were so much surprised to take part already in May

fun for children, too

...and a flea market - real flea market - look at the chaos in the van

crammed with old things - 

You make easily friends with people sitting near you.

We call it loggia , this „room“ - up to now we didn‘t do anything

in it - it has a door and steps to the garden

Ivy is coming through every little space in the loggia

a room which we don‘t use yet 

Lavender pillow made out of nothing  - little crocheting - lavender from the 

Adriatic sea - the fragrance so much more intense than ours

It‘s July and we enjoy the warmth in Black Forest - when it is not raining 

(like today with 15°)