On the Road

. . .

Saturday Night Music – Paco de Lucía

Paco de Lucía (21 December 1947 – 25 February 2014)

Friday is Skyday

11:40 a.m.

11:41 a.m.

11:42 a.m.

Saturday Night Music

Paco de Lucía (21 December 1947 – 25 February 2014)

Sunset with Saharan Dust

. . .

 

Sun, trees, Saharan Dust

. . .

 

Beers & Books LIV – Edna St Vincent Millay

 

“My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night"

[from A Few Figs from Thistles]

Edna St. Vincent Millay (22 February 1892 – 19 October 1950)

Beers & Books LIII – Sean O'Faolain

"Stories, like whiskey,
have to be allowed
to mature in the cask."

Seán Ó'Faoláin (22. February 1900 – 20 April 1991)

Beers & Books LII – Lyudmila Ulitskaya

The Big Green Tent

Lyudmila Ulitskaya * 21 February 1943

Saturday Night Music – Andrés Segovia

Andrés Segovia at the Alhambra

As this video, unfortunately, can only be watched on youtube, I do invite to follow the link above. Enjoy!

Andrés Segovia (21 February 1893 – 2 June 1987)

Alhambra

Beers & Books LI – Umberto Eco

Well, rather Wine &Words
 

"You die,
but most of what you have accumulated
will not be lost;
you are leaving a message in a bottle."

 "Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016)

Beers & Books L – Herbert Rosendorfer

Skaumo,
The Architect of Ruins

Herbert Rosendorfer (19 February 1934 – 20 September 2012)

Laughing Lhursday*

Snowy primate.

* [For first time visitors]: Typo in the title? Nah. It's just that
I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Update
to prove Andrew (see comments) is right.

Baboon, still there
but disguising himself as a bush.

Moments of solitude

Like a great poet,
Nature knows to produce greatest effects
with most limited means.

– Heinrich Heine (13 December 1796 – 17 February 1856) –

At sparrow's fart

No idea what let
29 members of the sparrow gang
from the cherry laurel vis-à-vis
suddenly invade this part of Seanhenge.

 

On the Road

07:25

10:22

10:23

 

Sunday in Seanhenge

There's enough for all,
but why should blackbirds be wiser,

a goldfinch contemplates.

 

Saturday Night Music

Miguel Poveda *13 February 1973

On the Road

. . .

 

Laughing Lhursday*

A wing mirror's wake
on a white winter morning
rhapsody in blue

* [For first time visitors]: Typo in the title? Nah. It's just that
I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Beers & Books XLiX

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

Peter Høeg *17 May 1957

More snow

More snow ...

... to shovel.

Well, after breakfast.

 

Monochrome Monday

. . .

Lovely coincidence: Not only Mark celebrated a Monochrome Monday, too, but yesterday posted part One of last year's 52 Monochrome Mondays.

Head over then, enjoy A bleak and beautiful world of Monochrome and don't forget to let him know.

Update 2: And here – just posted – A bleak and beautiful world of Monochrome, Part two

After all

After a stormy night, yesterday ...

... the village(rs) woke up with a bit snow.

 

Himalaya – Land of Women

 

Zanskar

Mariann Chaud * 1976

 

Saturday Night Music – Human Music

 

Human (The film)

Yann Arthus Bertrand * 13 March 1946

Armand Amar * 1953

0:22 – Faces (Caravan – Pakistan) 4:38 – Flamingos (Magadi lake - Kenya) 6:15 – Tenues (Portraits - Human) 7:55 – Dam in China (Dam Xiaolangdi - China) 10:41 – Forgivness (Portraits - Human) 12:48 – Castelles (human tower - Spain) 15:08 – Nepal (Mustang, Nepal) 17:40 – paddy fields (floating gardens - Burma, Lahore market – Pakistan, Attabad lake – Pakistan) 21:30 – Mongolia (Steppes, Mongolia) 25:06 – Storm from human (lençios maranhenses – Brazil, Saint-Guénolé – France) 28:54 – Shakuhachi (Mustang – Nepal, Well – Ethiopia, Fields – Madagascar, Paddy Fields – China) 32:59 – Ploughing – (Fields – Madagascar, Ethiopia, Mexico) 36:00 – Toil (Mines – Madagascar, Uyini Salar Flats – Bolivia, Fabric – Pakistan) 39:32 – Immigration (panorama – Kenya, Ethiopia) 43:45 - Human I (Portraits – Human, Kids – Haiti) 45:28 - Haiti (Market – Haiti) 48:08 - Pepe Mujica (Manhattan, New York) 51:35 – The Hidden Church (Cliff – Ethiopia, Temples – Burma) 53:15 – Castelles (Portraits - Human) 55:12 – Childhood (Kids – Pakistan, Daadab School – Kenya, Clothes – Dominican Republic) 59:47 – Swimming in China (Wave pool – China, Weddings – south Korea) 1:02:27 – Crowds (Stadium – Germany, Military Parade – India) 1:04:49 - Human I (Portraits – Human) 1:11:54 – Jerusalem (Tree of Life – Bolivia) 1:14:41 - Human II (Portraits – Human) 1:20:13 – Ghada’s Dream (End credits, Human)

Beers & Books XLVIII – James Joyce

"Is there any chance of a drink itself?"

from Dubliners,
Ivy Day in the Commitee Room

 James Joyce (2 February 1881 – 13 January 1941)

Snail's Dream

Had I followed my intention you would now read a short story, afterwards watch a short film and then ...
Anticipating the then, I decided to not manipulate your thoughts and feelings with my writing, but leave you alone with the film. Voilà.