"Disandat" Look at them in LARGE FORMAT

A cottage on Ferry Lake, near Huntsville, Ont.
I was intrigued by several things:
the lamp throwing its shadow,
the parallel lines of the clapboard construction,
the obvious many layers of paint put on without
scraping off the previous layer
and last, but not least, the flake of peeling paint
exposing the pristine wood below.

A vegetable field in the "Holland Marsh"
just a little North of Toronto.
I loved the straight parallel lines of planted lettuce
leading the eye almost to infinity.
I say 'almost' since I deliberately included the barn
and the horizon at the very top.

Jackson's Point, at the south shore of Lake Simcoe.
A lawn right on the shore line.
A stiff breeze blowing spray, enclosing
each blade of grass in a frozen cocoon.

I don't remember for certain, but I believe
this is on the shore of the Mondsee in Austria.
The story tells of a year, a long long time ago, during which
the lake's water level rose so high that it covered the rock
and therefore also flooded the nearby town.
The citizens planted the cross and...
lo and behold...
there was never another such devastating flood.
If they plant another such cross, there will never again
be such bell-bottom pants as I was wearing then.

It's a dog's race !!!

The two long haired Afghans
have no chance against two 'Windhounds'
 in the game "Chase the Rabit"

All three wind Hounds hve caught up with the rabit,
while our Afghans are still huffing and puffing
in the back field.

YOU MUST SEE THOSE PICTURES
IN THE LARGE FORMAT:

Hey ! I caught the rabit! No, I did...
he's mine...

 

What Dogs !!!!

A friend of ours has two dogs.
I think they're called 'Afghans'
They don't bark !
They moan and groan, and whimper
and cry, just like a child

They simply break me up with laughter
when they start making their peculiar sounds.

 

 

Some more of the Old Town

This tower marks one end of the town square.
The opposite end is down by the river.
When I was a kid, nobody thought of
"Traffic Patterns", "One Way Streets"  "Restricted Parking Zones"
There were three cars parked on the "Stadtplatz"...
One belonged to the doctor, one to a veterinarian,
and the third one to the owner of the Hotel Post.
Now you may cruise up and down and up and down
until you find a parking space.
Other than that, not much has changed.

This plaque attests to the fact, that in 1960
the town celebrated its 700th year of existance.

A side street in the old part of Braunau.
There is a story to be told about almost every one of these houses.
In one of them, a man named Johan Phillip Palm,
a Nürnberg Publisher,
was incarcerated by Napoleon's forces and subsequently executed
by firing squad, because he refused to reveal the name
of the author of a pamphlet which he published:
"Germany at its lowest degradation"
While in one of the houses above, a victim of a brutal dictator
was held until murdered,
in the building below, another viscious dictator was borne.
This one, more than Napoleon, plunged Germany and Austria
into the deepest level of its degredation.

 

Braunau am Inn (1)

The little allee from which I accessed our house,
Stadtplatz 22.
My family occupied an apartment
on the 3rd floor from 1937 to 1976.
After 40 years at this address, when my sister and her husband
decided to build a nice single family home on the
outskirts of town, my mother is reported to have said:
"what ?... and move again?"

"Hans Steininger".
A city councilor, rushing downstairs in an emergency,
stepped on his beard, fell and broke his neck

A view from the river woods.

A view from just outside the original City limits.

Braunau am Inn

Upper Main Square with "Fischbrunnen" (fish fountain)
in the foreground and Old City Tower in back ground.

City Hall

 

Lower Main Square

Good News about my New Laptop

Well, hurray, my new laptop seems to be working. Firing from all barrels...
Now, if I can get the printer working in the wireless mode, I'll be happy.
On the location of the "Z" and the "Y" I simply will have to get used to it..
Mind you, I've been told just a moment ago, that if I want to change the whole thing to the English version, I will have to install everything from scratch...
Oh well... I'll survive this too...
Bertstravels