Tuesday 15 September 2015

Picture Of The Day #55



A little while later I bought a Sony digicam with a better lens and macro option. The plant grows in our bathroom. It blossoms on average every second year. 

Friday 28 August 2015

Jump on this Boat!

It's considered bad manners to write about a book before you are finished reading it. But there's a but: Due to coincidence I'm reading A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole and Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra at the same time. 

They seem to share quite a deal.

And since I've laughed out loud three time before reaching page 6 in Toole's weird tale of Ignatius J. Reilly, I need to quote one of his lines (he's thirty, living with his mother):
"I dust a bit," Ignatius told the policeman. "In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip."
I am very sure that I'm going to enjoy this book.

Don Quixote was lost to me for many years. A clear victim of German class - where they seem to have taught most people NOT to read. We read the first page of the first chapter. I still remember the words - the translation, compared to the English one by John Ormsby I'm reading now must've been lousy. We had to write a content summary. I didn't only consider Don Quixote boring crap for years - I disliked content summaries for as long as I was a student as well. What a waste! 
The tale of the Spanish knight (remember: bad manners - I've hardly started reading) seems to be miraculously funny, witty, strange and deep. 

Thanks to Kevin Dorney for tipping me into his direction again. And thanks to Daniel Wouters for sending A Confederacy of Dunces by mail from Spain or Switzerland or wherever it were...



Thursday 27 August 2015

Pictures from La Gomera



Camping Montana Roja
Apratementos de Maria Isabel - Vale Gran Rey
Typical for the Canary Islands: Euphorbiaceae
Argaga Valley

 

At Casas de Gerian

Like Mandala
Camp in the Mountains

Going down from El Cedro to the North Coath 
Las Catalinas
Hermigua Valley from the East
A form of Asteraceae
Looking towas Punta Cabina
The beauty of La Gomera - simple.
Down at Punta Cabina. A variety of fish lives in this basin.
Hippie Valley..
What a camp!
Slowly it's time to say: Goodbye.
Because soon we'll be back at Cologne Airport.