Germany, April 2012
That’s no trick. There are actually two houses, the facade of one and the corner of the other one, separated by a narrow street. Chance made it that the walls of both houses had the same texture. The Weasel loves optical illusions.
April 2012, Germany
In the old part of German towns, built in the Middle Ages, one can find the most amazing architecture details. Especially if big parts on the said towns have been recently renovated: than you have a wonderful urban landscape of narrow streets and colored lines of houses. There is some sort of orderly chaos, created by repetitions and all sorts of contrasts between big and small, narrow and wide, straight and curved, and modern and old. A source of infinite possibilities to create photographical compositions.
Ever wondered how a day in the life of a weasel looks like? Well, I have to tell you that weasels usually lead fabulous lives, with a lot of adventure and new things coming up every day. For the purpose of getting the world to better understand weasels and what makes them what they are, here there will be some excerpts from “The Weasel’s Diary”, a complete documentation of the Weasel’s life as seen by the Weasel. Now, since all the work is done by a weasel (as maybe some of you already know, weasels don’t have opposable thumbs *and WP doesn’t recognize the word opposable, either*) the drawings might lack in mastery, but be assured that the information that they convey is 100% accurate.
Diesbar-Seußlitz, Germany, March 2012
Spring decided to finally show itself here too. And, how she does it! With clear blue skies, sun and temperatures over 20 Celsius. We’re really spoiled here. With such glorious weather in the last few days, the Weasel couldn’t stay inside the weasel-home, he had to take the cam and go out and explore! One evening we went to Diesbar-Seußlitz. Placed in what is called “Toscany on the Elbe”, there is a former little castle, now used as a hall for weddings mostly, a little hunting hut on a top of a hill and a garden – a miniature reminding of the splendor of the gardens around the villas of old patricians in Italy.
From all the pictures of statues of angels in the garden and architectural details of the 18th century, on the villa, the Weasel chose this simple, abstract one, because of the contrast between the straight lines constructing a simple, yet very well defined geometry, and the organic chaos of the ivy branches.
(Click on the image to enlarge)
Last year I made an entry about the 1st of March and the tradition around it. I won’t repeat the whole story. This year the Weasel made again something for this occasion. Inspired by this tutorial from Elsa Mora’s blog, the Weasel went to the store and bought modelling clay and paint, and searched through his treasure box and found there French beads, a piece of felt, golden ribbons and golden dust. The motive, a snowdrop and a butterfly, is a usual spring theme used usually on these little brooches. Since finding an acceptable red-white thread here is quite a challenge, the Weasel let tradition a bit aside and went for purple and gold. The success was just as great.
Moritzburg, Germany, February 2012
At Moritzburg is a complex built at the order of probably the most important ruler of Saxony, Augustus the Strong. Back then royalties and noblemen (and noblewomen) knew how to make it nice for themselves. So, there was not only built a castle in the middle of a lake, surrounded by a park and forest. No, they also built a hunting (not haunting) castle (well, don’t imagine that there’s something really big, but it’s still called a castle), surrounded again by a park and forest, near a little lake too. The little castle and the park are built in such a manner that when standing in front of the house, one has a clear view over the main castle, the one in the middle of the lake.
Getting back at the hunting castle, or rather lodge, and the lake near which is built, there is also a little light house built, at the end of a small promenade that goes a few meters in the lake. The lighthouse is not very tall, but fits to the place. It is painted in this nice reddish – pinkish color. Unfortunately, it is not open for the visits (probably would fit only 5 people at once, the most).
Moritzburg, Germany, February 2012
Trees develop such unexpected shapes, it’s easy to get one’s imagination running to come up with different stories or only images: weird landscapes, strange beings, monsters, and so on.
Germany, Summer 2011
A bit of green to help get through the gray, cold and snowy winter days. Cannot wait for sunny days and bike rides along the Elbe. Especially after rainy days it’s full of these little critters, really hungry hungry little critters.
Germany, February 2012
Or should it be “Weasel with a graphic tablet”, since the Weasel has acquired one since few weeks ago? Now the Weasel keeps himself busy learning how to play with the new toy and getting into the world of digital painting. One of the exercises – thumbnails. And since Wolfie is one of the favorite models and inspiration muse for the Weasel’s creations, it had the honor to be the subject of the Weasels doodles.
Thessaloniki, Greece, October 2006
One of the things that really fascinated me in Greece was how history seemed to be so integrated in the current life. Of course, there are all those famous touristy places like in Athens or Meteora (yes, before linking Park released an album with this name, some monks built hundreds of years ago some monasteries on the top of some very strange looking peaks in a place bearing this name), for example, swarming of, of course, tourists from all over the world. There are also the other places where the traces of history are also very visible, but they are just parts, or even objects, of a daily, normal life of the today people living there. One of these places is Thessaloniki.
In the image there’s a part of an old construction (don’t remember exactly if it were a tomb or a house), dating from the very early Middle Ages. There are many such places in the town, where ancient ruins are peeking through modern apartment buildings, between the graves of a cemetery or even in a small “museum” organized under a busy road crossing the city. It’s also fascinating how proud the people are of their heritage and how they try to preserve everything, even if there are only a couple of bricks still standing, remains of a once highly visited temple or church or such. And these places, these small ruins and monuments are even put on the visitors map. So, next time you’re visiting Thessaloniki make sure you visit not only the white tower on the sea shore, but also wander a bit on the streets of the old town and spot yourself some not so popular, yet interesting traces of history too.
