Flickr Favorites : Shiny

Today in the Flickr Favorites we are playing by theme (every first Tuesday in the month), and the theme for this Tuesday is "shiny".

For more flickr favourites see ArtMind's blog.

1. shine, 2. GREEN MOSQUE // GROENE MOSKEE HASSAN II CASABLANCA, 3. yip: 9/365 shiny, 4. So dark and shiny...


And a picture of the Schlei fjord in front of my house shining in the sun.

Tidbits : Clouds

We have the most amazing sky and clouds above the Schlei fjord, sometimes also in the most amazing colours. Yesterday was a great day for clouds, so I took some pictures:


At the end of our road along the Schlei lives another Dutch woman, Betty Kerstens, who only paints water and .... clouds. She thinks it's here the best place for her to live ! Have a look at her website ! Here's one of her cloud paintings:

Tidbits : Flickr Favourites

Made a lang walk along the Schlei again yesterday with Peggy. Can't stop loving it, the water and the air above it is every time different. So I dedicate this Tuesday to the Schlei !
For more flickr favourites see ArtMind's blog.

1. Bridge over the Schlei Fjord (I_^_I), 2. Die Schlei Princess, 3. Fisherman on the Schlei Fjord - Northern Germany, 4. Schlei 2

And here the bridge from the first picture seen from the water
And some more mood pictures:

Tidbits : A Sunny Schlei

Here some pictures of the sunny Schlei fjord yesterday and today taken from our boat. First the inland direction (direction Schleswig), with the railway bridge at Lindaunis open on the first picture.


Then two pictures in the other direction (the direction of Kappeln and the Baltic Sea).


And the last two; going back home with the boat again, with the Schlei bridge in Kappeln behind my hubby (with one of my caps...) and all the seagulls sitting along the coast.

Tidbits : Still Winter

It's still winter here in the north of Germany; we have still lots of snow and it's pretty cold. Above a picture of my back garden.
It's also winter for the birds; last days it was difficult to buy feed for them. All shops were sold out ! But we improvised a lot and the birds were happy. Here a jackdaw, a blue tit, a chaffinch and a blackbird.

Tidbits : Frozen Fjord

Finally the Schlei fjord is frozen; it's so gorgeous. It's white, silent and cold. I would love to go skating, but I have not seen a single skater on the fjord yet so I am afraid it is not safe enough. And I am not a young brave girl anymore that goes as the first one on the ice. I have to remember myself every time that this is actually salt water.....
But it looks nice, don't you think ?

Tidbits : Treasuries from the Schlei

Beautiful radiant fossil
My camera died on me 2 days ago, no idea what's wrong. Somehow, he made all pictures very dark and unsharp. I always use the autofocus and never studied the thing further. I looked on the internet and found the instruction booklet for my camera on line. After some fidling around, I think I got it. Using the functions and not the autofocus made the pictures I took not so dark anymore and some were reasonably sharp. So, I hope I remember what I did ....
Fossil that looks like a mouth ?
I found some treasuries along the Schlei in the last couple of weeks. They were my camera test models. So, here they are !
Fossilized sea urchin



No idea what this is, but there are lots of fossils !

Tidbits : Lawnsign

I ordered a week ago a lawnsign at VistaPrint and it arrived today. Had no idea what to expect, but for the money it's a very clever solution. It's from plastic and has metal legs. I think it looks pretty cool along the road before my house; hope that tourists like too what they see and come into my little shop/atelier !

Tidbits : The Schlei / Slien

The Schlei (in german) or Slien (in danish) is the most southern fjord in northern Europe; it stretches for approximately 20 miles from the Baltic Sea along the small cities of Kappeln (the featuring city in the german TV series of "der Landarzt") and Arnis (the smallest city in Germany with about 300 inhabitants) to the city of Schleswig in northern Germany. An important viking settlement, called Hedeby, was located at the head of the fjord, but was later abandoned in favor of the city of Schleswig. There is now a beautiful museum at Hedeby (danish) or Haithabu (german) showing how this viking settlement was built; with rebuild viking houses, real found relicts, lots of information, and the yearly viking days. Two years ago they found an abandoned viking ship in the Schlei just in front of us when the water was very low; archaeologists took it piece for piece away and rebuild it in the museum.

We are living along the Schlei just after Arnis. Although it's not the best time of the year for pictures of the Schlei, I took some because the weather was so bright this morning.