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.... 

Blossoms and more

It is all blossom against the evening sky - the future crop of

mirabelles - the little round yellow plums, first a little sour and

if we leave them hanging long enough - very sweet and juicy.

It is the view out of our room where the piano is standing.

 

 

 

It is a pity that the fantastic light can't be seen in this photo.

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A collage of the finished "market basket" with handles -

I used exclusively batiks which make the bag somehow stiff.

 

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And here again the cover cloth --- the cat is more friendly now

I cut his moustache - and operated a light smile into his face.

The advantage of such a cloth - it can be changed according to

the creator's mood.

If you are maybe following Jude Hill's blog you will recognize

her "beans". It was an "aha-moment" for me - (thank you Jude, for

this idea). I am slowly filling in spaces with left-over bits of thread...

.... in a colour matching the ajoining squares.

 

 

I found a little embroidery in one of my boxes and thought it

would just fit in. I stitched buttonholes around it and laced it

with the same red cotton a broder. I added two buttonhole lace points

in white. Sorry the tips were cut off by my photographer, ha!

 

I need a little give-away next week when our grammar school class

will meet for lunch in my home-town Stuttgart. So I used again

(how many times already) the tutorial of noodlehead to create

this pouch. It is my favorite tutorial.

I will fill in chocolates!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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