At last autum has come.
I have visited Schwerin, the capital city of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. This town is full of art and inspirations.
„Das Kontor“ is the oldest house in Schwerin and the art gallery in it is a little gem. In former GDR times there was a bakery in it and fortunatelly nobody has torn it down, not like so many other houses.
You can browse endless through all kind of arts: paintings, photography, pottery, jewellery, graphics, letterpress, dressmaking, felt, woodcut etc.. All is very well presented and very intriguing, because the old architecture is very neat and something special.
On the market. I always love handwritten labels. The herbs and spices of that one-woman’s shop „Wald und Würze“ (Forest and spices) are very good.
Tomatoes that look like plums. The yellow ones are the best: sweet, juicy, mild.
The seabuckthorn is typical for this area. Full of vitamine C.
Inspiration at every corner.
At last a visit at the Cathedral.
A church full of flowers, just like it should be.
Time for some fresh ones though.
Lovely windows! When the sun shines thru they make such a wonderful light, painting rainbows on the wall.
Now in May, it’s wonderful, the tender green of the birches, the rushing silence of the spruces and bird songs everywhere.
Beauty all around.
I am walking the dog, gathering sticks and twigs. We do not have much forests in this part of Germany, so being in the woods is more or less a seldom event for me.
Later that day, I am making my typicals little „spools“ out of the sticks and twigs I have collected.
They are grinded and treated with oil and wax.
The colours of sand, wood, stone, ashes and honey. I am madly in love with earth colours these days.
Some sticks carry magic signs and pictures under their bark. Do you see the centaur?
Sometimes funny things came up, like this little garden marker gnome.
