Visitor coming down our stairs

Lonely cat on stairs - visitor cat. She is stepping down the stairs and 

going up on the driveway.

Seefest in Berneck im Schwarzwald - Festivity in Berneck, Blackforest

The festivity started, with a 1000 colourful lights on the lake

People gathering alongside the lake - at the booths for snacks and beer

We are sitting on the opposite side watching the happening

from above and waiting for the fireworks

Looks like house on fire - it was a fantastic spectacle



and lasted 15 minutes

Illuminated row of old houses - Schlosssteige

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I tried to transform a pattern by Svetlana Gordon and make a scarf -

I liked the knitted feathers but I could not transform it into a long scarf

so I unravelled it

washed it without detergent ...

and started a new pattern





which also meant much counting




but by now I know it by heart

I miss granddaughter - probably still sleeping - 

We are watching how son will pack the car getting ready for departure

After a good while everything was in

Easter eggs on the blooming tree

Easter eggs look wonderful on the blooming apple tree

I will leave them on the tree till autumn or longer

I love those colours

please have a look at the austere fir trees on the other side of the 

narrow valley, I think it is called Köllbachtal. Köllbach is the creek

where trouts are raised.



For the fun workshops Sketchbook Revival I am gathering pics

of cracks in the asphalt - it is the theme of Carla Sonheim.

We have to invent an animal or something else using the lines of the 

cracks - 
At the moment no printer is available - so I can‘t continue

Our daily walk to the castle of Berneck




Well, not the best photo - but isn‘t this beautiful behind the tree!

The workshop: Mixing two water colours

a very shy experiment - but anyway - I can see a running figure

copying an object from different positions, left hand, blind,

with an upright pencil, continuous line - different ways to draw

We get two videos each day for about 10 days - 

The teachers are drawing and talking for about half an hour

We can watch, work at the same time, we need not publish it

There is a facebook group „Sketchbook Revival“ - the administrator

is Karen Abend at sketchbookrevival.com

I am no sketcher at all and I know now that I won’t ever draw any birds

naturalistic drawing is not my choice.

New home

When it is sunny I have a superb view out of the diningroom window

I even love when rain invents a beading pattern on my newly cleaned windows

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Surprising visitors - Feuersalamander - (Salamandra salamandra) 

I took „him“ with gloved hands

and offered him a nice grassy place - a friend told me that he can

induce allergy -

DH handled this visitor - a harmless one - I wouldn‘t know of poisonous

snakes in our country.

And now let me sit and knit after all this moving chaos

No big project - a project of fantasy - using up left-overs of cotton yarns

so many lovely colours

Knitting without plan - short rows - purl - knit - change colours at random

and produce a happy wash cloth - 

 
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I am sitting in the middle of Schwarzwald - Black Forest - on our

balcony - it is like very exclusive holidays - and we are at home here.

I think we are lucky people.




This is growing around the house - and if I can believe my patchwork friends

and I believe them !

it is called Giersch and can be processed into various dishes - tarts, soups,

smoothies...
Gewöhnlicher Giersch (Aegopodium podagraria)


I can gather lots of it. Years ago I weeded it in our garden and succeeded ! 

Today I know better and regret this ignorant rampage - 

I am going to read recipes.

Nice arrangements - seen on our evening walk.

Bye-bye till next time.