Rain ... after all ... RAIN

What a garden view!

Rain! After all. ...

The rain barrels thankfully filled again.

Thank you, bees and bumblebees

What in April began ...

... is now bearing fruit - bees and bumblebees be thanked.

Saturday Night Music – Alfred Brendel

 

Alfred Brendel (5 January 1931 – 17 June 2025)

Franz Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828)

Laughing Lhursday* – Been there

* [For first time visitors]:

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

40 years ago.

;-)

Good news:
Daughter and grandchildren have been taught
 how to perfectly spell and pronounce. ;-)

Beers & Books (422) – Also the donkey has a soul

Also the donkey has a soul

Peter Bichsel (24 March 1935 – 15 March 2025)

Bloomsday again

121.

Coffeetime with Daphne

..., not with mug Daphne, though. ;-)

Daphne du Maurier (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989)

Saturday Night Music – Grigorian: Song to the Moon

Asmik Grigorian *12 May 1981

What I see when I turn around

...

Update: 
The photo shows about ten per cent of my exquisite little library.

On the left shelf from top to bottom. 1+2: French literature; Irish literature below. 
Centre shelf: 1+2: Russian authors; 3-5 (up to the owls): Italian authors; 6: South American literature.
Right shelf: 1+2: African and Asian literature; 3: Icelandic and Scandinavian literature (Faroe Islands, Norwegians, Swedes, Finns, Danes; 3+4: Catalan, Portuguese and Spanish literature. 5. continuation of Latin American authors, plus (not in the image) Iranian authors.

Laughing Lhursday* – Two Daphne

Two Daphne – the writer and the mug*.

* Inspired by Mark. ;-)

Daphne du Maurier (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989)

* [For first time visitors]:

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

Heralds of long-awaited rain

Last Friday, 12:45.

Beers & Books (421) – Woolf: Monday or Tuesday

Monday or Tuesday

Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941)  

It is fragrant all around Seanhenge

On the lower balcony, the climbing hydrangea is fragrant,

while jasmine and ...

... elderflowers perfume the front.

And the roses ...

... are a delight to behold