Beers & Books (396) – Goethe 275

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832)

When I try to imagine the time of the original creation of those 20,000 pages of my thin-print complete edition, I suddenly think of some Flemish painters. Should be possible that Privy Councillor Goethe, who today would celebrate his 275th birthday, had some industrious penmen write for him? ;-)
The following may seem casual, but seriously:
The man spends 25 years of his life as political advisor, minister, theater director, “rides” in times of small statehood for one and a half years by horse-drawn stage coach to and through “Bella Italia”, and – not to forget the one or other amorous adventure that also takes up this and that hour – finds time by candlelight with quill and inkwell to write such an enormous oeuvre?
Chapeau!
Happy birthday, Wolfi! ;-)

Butterflies Dorado

These days one can see why summer lilac is also called butterfly bush.

Several peacock butterflies, swallowtails and others
are frequenting this one.

Monochrome Monday

Missed you. Where've you been?
There'd be a lot to tell.
Anyway, you're back.

Coffee time with Dylan Thomas

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog

Dylan Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953)

Beers & Books (395) – José Carrasco

Chile, my martyred land

José Carrasco (24 August 1943 – 8 September 1986)

Friday is Skyday

 

16 August
See the birds?

22 August

Today

Laughing Lhursday*

A garden spook named Philomenosa

* [For first time visitors]:

Typo in the title?
Nah. It's just that I would not
let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Fine Beer for Fine Books

A friend visited the Faroe Islands
and on his return surprised me
with a nice little collection of Faroe Beer.
"For your Beers & Books."
I am delighted.

Beers & Books (394) – Tarjej Vasaas: Das Eisschloss

The Ice Palace

Tarjei Vasaas (20 August 1897 – 15 March 1970)

Feast for the eyes

...

 

Coffee time with Seamus Heaney

The Redress of Poetry

 
Seamus Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013)

Beers & Books (393) – Henry James: Daisy Miller

Daisy Miller
& Other Stories

Henry James (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916)

Friday is Skyday

Developing "wings" ...

... mighty cloudsbird

Dahlia delight

Their bulbs

overwinter in cellar

to delight our eyes

in summer

in many shapes

and colours

until they start fading away

and their bulbs ...

"My" Rowan

A birthday present twenty years ago ...

"my" dear Rowan grew and grew ...

and its berries taste good to me and our feathered friends.

Beers & Books (392) – Time Machine and other works

The Time Machine

 H. G. Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946)

The old cherry tree

The old cherry tree
He provides us with cherries
and welcome shadow

 

Beers & Books (391): Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton (24 January 1862 – 11 August 1937)

Coffeetime with young García Márquez

The "Giraffe aus Barranquilla"
comprises 82 journalistic works by García Márquez
written between 1948 and 1952.
"La Girafa" was the title of a column
that the then 22-year-old regularly wrote
for the Colombian daily newspaper "El Heraldo".
Many of the short glosses and literary sketches,
in which he processed everyday experiences,
paved the way for his later work.

Gabriel García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014)

Friday is Skyday

20:06

 

Laughing Lhursday*

The artist's commission:
Paint within 3 minutes
Don Quijote on Rocinante and Sancho Panza on his donkey
approaching a windmill.
And voilà!
As an encore, the artist even added a scorching sun over La Mancha,
or is it a dust-wreathed herd of mutton? ...

* [For first time visitors]:

Typo in the title?
Nah. It's just that I would not
let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Two things are certain

Two things are certain:
Humanity will vanish.
Nature will prevail.

 

Beers & Books (390) – Das Geheimnis der Pineta

"Enigma in luogo di mare"
A fine read, the more while enjoying holiday in Italy. ;-)

Carlo Fruttero (19 September 1926 – 15 January 2012)

Franco Luccentini (24 December 1920 – 5 August 2002)

Fruttero & Luccentini

Beers & Books (389) – Sergio Ramírez: Tiempo de fulgor

Tiempo de fulgor

Sergio Ramírez *5 August 1942

Coffee time with Antonio Muñoz Molina

The Polish Rider (El jenite polaco) I re-read a few days ago.
This afternoon "The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield" 
enriched my coffeetime. ... Well, not all, but two of them. ;-)

Beers & Books (388) – James Baldwin

One Day When I Was Lost

 James Baldwin (2 August 1924 – 2 August 2024)

Friday is Skyday

...

 

Laughing Lhursday*

Bird poo art

However you spin it

 * [For first time visitors]:

Typo in the title?
Nah. It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.