DISANDAT - the Easy Life -

From our balcony:
The Petzen in the background,
the pool up front.

The wall of the storage shed,
decorated with ivy and rhododendron

Steven's Narcisses decorate our breakfast table.

...actually Christin decorates our breakfast table;
the Narcisses only help her.

OUR POOL and GARDEN

This shot, taken from ground level,
does not show the "Petzen" mountain in the back ground.
Just a little blue sky, green water and....
oh no ! it also does not show the +25 degrees.

...from underneath the arch of ivy...

...the swimming champ; ready for the plunge !!!

...you thought I was just pretending....
wrong...here I am in mid air.
It's a tough life ! But somebody has to live it.
So it might as well be me.
Greetings !
Bert

MARTINI MEETS MARLENE

Tonc Feinig, a most wonderful keyboard player
accompanies Claudia Martini
as she re-creates Marlene Dietrich

"Lili Marlen" the hit song for soldiers
on both sides of the War is presented
with such honesty that one might feel
transported back in time to the 1940s.

"Go, ask the boys in the back room"
the hit song from the movie
"Destry Rides again"
presented in its original version
made you expect Destry ( Jimmy Stewart)
to enter from back stage any moment now.

Claudia Martini and Tonc Feinig
presented a true "Look Back"
to the time when
Marlene Dietrich had wowed them all.

Dainese paints Carinthia

I seem to get to know more artists,
up close and personal than ever before.
This is Dainese: Borne in Italy, educated in England
now married and living in Carinthia.
As she said: She came to Carinthia,
fell in love with the country and has been painting it
ever since.
She predominantely uses blues and greens and has
become known for the colours and multiple hues
in her work.
Dainese is not only a talented artist
but she is also most charming.
Unfortunately, these images do not do justice to her work.
Some of her canvasses, (she paints in oil ) are quite large
and inspite of the tenderness of her work,
they convey considerable power.


I just wish I could exhibit all of her canvasses in LARGE here.
The details contained directly or hinted at
are astonishing.

It can be argued that her portraits
are even better than her landscapes
You'd have to see her work yourself to judge.

Maybe I will put a few more of
her paintings on my Blog.
I am now working on a PSG show
which I will post on my Photodex Website for your
enjoyment and edification.