Travel

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“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.” 

―Elbert Hubbard

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study the past 2024

   

- January 2024

On a cold winter day we made a visit at Lüneburg, where we'd lived some years long ago and visited the famous Monastery Lüneburg. 

 

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

- Confucius

- February 2024

I discovered some beautiful cat baskets on Instagram and reactivated my crotched skills. Coralie love her new created chilling places. 

- March 2024

In March we spend some wonderful, cold, and windy days on the Frisian Island Sylt. 

- April 2024

I never get tiered of this first view in the morning. Especially when Spring arrived. 

- Mai 2024

May is always one of the best months of the year for me. Nature is in full bloom; the temperatures are stabil higher again, it is my birthday month, asparagus season, and the first strawberries are growing on the fruit farms around us. 

- June 2024

It was perfect weather for a garden photo shooting with or sweet neighbor girl Paula. We had so much fun together. 

- Juli 2024

Juli brought a lot of rain and impressive skies. 

- August 2024

The sea was calling and we loved to stay at Heiligenhafen, Baltic Sea. We had such a great room with a fantastic sea view day and night. 

- September 2024

We'd decided to spend some days on Sylt Island again and had a late summer fun some at the beach. 

- October 2024

For a long time, I had wished to discover more castles and palaces in Sachsen-Anhalt, so we visited the gorgeous water castle Flechtingen. 

- November 2024

November brought early twilight, fog, rain, snow, and awesome sundowns. 

- December 24

Fortunately, Christmas markets are back, and the one in our beautiful half-timbered town of Celle is considered one of the most enchanting in all of Northern Germany. 

 I'm so grateful for this marvelous year full of unforgettable moments and I hope that you enjoy this review as much as I do. 

All my best wishes to 2025 dear friends. Thanks for your continuing interest, support and wonderful comments and inspiration. 

Hugs and Kisses

your isabella 

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from whence we came

I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came.

[Remarks at the Dinner for the America's Cup Crews, September 14 1962]” 

― John F. Kennedy

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The Sea Spirit

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I smile o'er the wrinkled blue­

Lo! the sea is fair,

Smooth as the flow of a maiden's hair;

And the welkin's light shines through

Into mid-sea caverns of beryl hue,

And the little waves laugh and the mermaids sing,

And the sea is a beautiful, sinuous thing! 

I scowl in sullen guise­

The sea grows dark and dun,

The swift clouds hide the sun

But not the bale-light in my eyes,

And the frightened wind as it flies

Ruffles the billows with stormy wing,

And the sea is a terrible, treacherous thing! 

When moonlight glimmers dim 

I pass in the path of the mist, 

Like a pale spirit by spirits kissed. 

At dawn I chant my own weird hymn, 

And I dabble my hair in the sunset's rim, 

And I call to the dwellers along the shore 

With a voice of gramarye evermore. 

And if one for love of me 

Gives to my call an ear, 

I will woo him and hold him dear, 

And teach him the way of the sea, 

And my glamor shall ever over him be; 

Though he wander afar in the cities of men 

He will come at last to my arms again. 

Lucy Maud Montgomery, 1874 - 1942 

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study the past 2015

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- January 2015

New Year's walk along the River Aller, Celle

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

- Confucius

- February 2015

playing with flowers

- March 2015

a year full of watercolor studies - there is so much to learn, so much to enjoy

- April 2015

sunny Easter visit at Timmendorfer Strand, Baltic Sea

- Mai 2015

relaxing days at the famous island of Rügen, Baltic Sea

- Juni 2015

visiting Goethe in Weimar

- Juli 2015

enjoying our Garden

- August 2015

time of the Heidebluete at my North

- September 2015

renewing an old love - the perfect getaway for dreamy vacation Porquerolles,situated just off France’s Mediterranean coast

- October 2015

short trip Tønder, Husum, St. Peter-Ording

- November 2015

celebrating Autumn

- December 2015

Christmas visit in Chicago

I'm so grateful for this marvelous year full of unforgettable moments and I hope that you enjoy 

this review as much as I do. 

All my best wishes for 2016 dear friend. 

Hugs and Kisses

yours isabella 

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cool, quieting thoughts - Island Rügen, Baltic Sea

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"I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought."

— Helen Keller, Writer

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mein Norden - An das Meer

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An das Meer

Urfrisches Bild der Jugendzeit

Im goldnen Saum der Ewigkeit,

Das du seit Schöpfungsanfang warst,

Wie du dich heut mir offenbarst!

Du sahst das Erdrund werden alt

Und sich verwandeln mannigfalt –

Auch du oft wechselst dein Gesicht,

Doch deine Seele wechselt nicht!

Du zeigst die ew'ge Schöpferkraft,

Die rastlos aus sich selber schafft,

Stets neue Lebenswellen treibt

Und immer doch die alte bleibt.

Wer deines Herzens Wogenschlag

Und Melodie ergründen mag,

Dem raunst du das Geheimnis zu

Stets jung und alt zu sein wie du!

- Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt

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 Wordless Wednesday  - Weekly Top Shot #173 - Skywatch Friday

Photos taken at Timmendorfer Beach, Baltic Sea - North Germany during the Easter vacation 2015. 

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Dänischer Sommer

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Die Möwe und mein Herz

Hin gen Norden zieht die Möwe,
Hin gen Norden zieht mein Herz;
Fliegen beide aus mitsammen,
Fliegen beide heimatwärts.

Ruhig, Herz! du bist zur Stelle;
Flogst gar rasch die weite Bahn –
Und die Möwe schwebt noch rudernd
Überm weiten Ozean.

Theodor Storm, 1817 - 1888

 

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Der Süden rief mich, aber dem Norden war ich zu Eigen.

Jakob Wassermann, 1873 - 1934

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