LAST SOCCER IN BLEIBURG

This was the last home game of the Season.
Bleiburg vs Spittal
In spite of superiority on the field, Bleiburg lost 3:2
What a shame. Our boys missed at least 5 excellent chances.
But, they also were not as dilligent as their opponents.

that made it 1:0 for Spittal

Here  is the very reason for our loss:

There are 8 Spittalers in front of Bleiburg's goal

and only 3 of our players decided to come back and defend.

Good keeper

Enthusiastic Spectators

Art vs Art

Most people who know me, also know my taste in Art.
I dislike charlatans and therefore I dislike so-called Artists, who take a piece of canvass or paper, a brush and some paint, smear some paint with the brush on the canvass and then call it "Art".
Oh, I forgot, they almost always dream up a fabulous title, like "Imagination 1" or, "Deep Contemplation 6." or some such meaningless title. 
Every now and then I meet a true artist and I always like to see and show their work.
One such is "Monika" and here are just a few of her works.

Now, Monica does not call this painting 

"Devastation 17"

In fact, she calls it nothing. She just paints it and lets you look at it

and allows you to come up with your own words; if you need any.

and if the gentleness of her strokes and the balance of the painting as a whole

does not talk to you, then maybe you are deaf.

Can you see the whiff of smoke, which almost hesitatingly emanates from the chimney ?

The sun has just gone down, leaving a yellow-pink hew in the sky.

It's cold, nobody there;  the whole family safely snuggled up in their

"House in the Woods."

That's what I call it. Monica just shows it to you.

Just imagine: Monika paints a sunset.

In modern Art this is a No-No.

Even though, this sunset is beautiful.

Oh, horror of horrors: Monika paints a beautiful bunch of flowers.

I suppose she should have just slathered some different colour paints onto the middle of a canvass

and called it:

" ???"

Would somebody have called it "Poppies" ?

Funny, Funny, Funny

A man enters the doctor's office and says that he is really worried, since he is convinced that he is a moth.
"Well", says the doctor, "you have to visit the doctor across the hallway. He is a Psychiatrist".
"Sure", says the man, "but in your office the light was on".

Bertstravels
thinks this is really funny.

Not my own

Please  note that the posting below is not my own invention. I received it from a very funny lady in Toronto and embellished some a little.
Bertstravel 
is not a plagiator ...

The System, you and two cows !

SOCIALISM.
you have two cows:
The Government takes all the milk produced by one of them,  During collection and administration it spills 75% of the milk collected from you, gives you back 25% and proudly declares it "Social Progress".

COMMUNISM.
You have two cows,
The State takes both and gives you some milk, which in the process has curdled. If you say that you do not like curdled milk, you are sent to the Gulag for social re-education. If you say that you do not wish to be socially re-educated you are shot and the cows are given to a Party Official.: 

BUREAUCRATISM;
You have two cows, 
The State takes both, starts a file of vital statistics of both cows, forgets to feed one, milks the other and chemically analyses the milk and then throws it away, because you did no sign a document which you had never seen.

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows
You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.

ROYAL BANK OF LICHTENSTEIN (VENTURE) CAPITALISM
You have two cows:
You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using Letters of Credit, opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a Tax Exemption for five cows.
The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company, secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed Company.
The annual report says the Company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.
You sell this option and with the proceeds you buy a Senator, leaving you with nine cows.
There is no Balance Sheet provided within this Annual Report.
The Public then buys your bull.

SURREALISM
You have two Giraffes:
The Government requires you to take harmonica lessons, before your are given a permit to clean their stable.

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows:
You sell one, water down the milk of the other, hire the biggest Ad Agency to tell the world that "Thin Milk" is great for your weight loss and general health.

A GREEK CORPORATION
You have two cows:
You borrow lots of Euros from the European Union to build barns, milking sheds, hay stores, abattoir, cheese unit and packing sheds.
At the end you still have two cows but the loan is forgiven.

A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows:
You go on strike, organise a riot and block roads, because you want three cows.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION.
You have two cows:
but you do not know where they are.  You decide to have lunch.

A SWISS CORPORATION
You have five thousand cows:
none of them belong to you and you charge the owners for storing them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows:
You have 300 people milking them. You claim that you have full employment and high bovine productivity.
You arrest the news man who reported the real situation.#

AN IRAQI CORPORATION.
Everyone says that you have lots of cows. You insist that you have none. They send an Inspection Team, who step into cow dung every step of their way, but they tell the world that you have no cows.

AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows
Business seems pretty good. You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate .

Bertstravels
would be happy if he owned one cow.

Flowers....

Since nothing exciting has happened hereabouts, (although there would be lots to write about regarding the world of the Middle East),  I dug back into my picture library to show you some flowers:

The Turk's Hat Lilly,

growing in profusion in the Courtright Centre

and many other places.

I particularly like the beautiful balance of this flower,

as well as the slightly out of focus, supporting leaves below.

The "Blue Flag"

an Iris which likes to grow in wet, marshy soil.

"Calypso Orchid"

Just off Tobermory, at the Northern tip of

the Bruce Peninsula, there is the "Flower Pot Island"

In the middle, from the mouth of a narrow cave

 a lukewarm breeze blows steadily.

(All year long about the same temperature)

Therefore, in an area where Winter becomes pretty fierce

an Orchid grows, defying all expectations.

The "Lady Slipper"

another flower of the family of Orchids,

was found and photographed near Tobermory.

These two Orchids, the Calypso and the Lady Slipper

surely prove that Orchids do not only grow

in tropical areas.

Canadian Song birds

"So where are you from ?" I asked Brenley MacEachern and Lisa MacIsaac.
"From Toronto" one of them answered.
"So am I" I said, very happy to have met a co-patriot. And such a beautiful one at that.
"Where abouts in Toronto ?"
"Queen and Bathurst"
"Well just travel North on Bathurst till you get to Steeles and you might find me there"

Chit-Chat back and forth about 'Good Old TO'

Then it was time for them to return to the stage and continue a wonderful concert.
These two Canadian singers, appearing under the stage name of "Madison Violet", are on the "Austrian Leg" of their European tour. About 200 Concerts per year keeps them busy and invites them to enlarge their repertoire and improve their style constantly.

Their voices, in two tone harmony, sound like one. Their repertoire consists mostly of their own compositions with serious, but never maudlin, lyrics.

This duo of singers is most ably supported by Adrian Lawryshyn    ( b.&Voc) and Jeff Luciani, (dr & perc ) Those two stem from St. Catherines, Ont.

For me it was a special pleasure to listen to and meet four great Canadian artists.

The lighting ( what there was of it ) was partly fluorescent, partly incandescent and for effect, changed in colour from green to red, to blue, which did not make photography very easy.

In addition, the use of flash would have been disturbing to the artists and is threfore not practiced by

Bertstravels.