Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Foraging Time

Wild Weeds 

The Garden Show is still coming here, but I have been buuuuuussy, and toddling about hither and yon.

But in a tribute to Spring around the corner, we have started gathering and eating greens from our area in our salads again. Spring tonic. Highly recommended, if you have a clean area. Bärlauch (which I think you call wild garlic), Dandelions, and various small greens and flowers. 




Friday, March 15, 2024

Garden ShowTime

In Zürich

Today we went to the annual garden show. My pictures haven’t up loaded yet, and it’s too late to wait for them, but probably tomorrow I can share some. For now, a couple from a flower shop in the Old Town.






Forsythia and daffodils are blooming here all over now.

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Monday, March 4, 2024

Spring is Springing

Colors Coming



We are hoping hard that the trees don’t flower yet. We want fruit this year!



But snowbells are quite welcome.

Friday, March 1, 2024

Happy March

New Month, New Opportunities 


Winter flowers 


Vinca minor, a spring flower, much too early, from an unseasonably warm February.



Snow drops, a winter flower.


A few weeks too early for Forsythia.



And the rhubarb is pushing hard. 



Thursday, February 29, 2024

Happy Special Day

Once in Four Years

More time to do more? Or more time to get behind on TO DO list? 




Monday, February 26, 2024

Monday, February 19, 2024

Blessed Lenten Season

Somber Time

On this day- my brother’s birthday- my father died four years ago, a blessed end, with much of his family around, just before lockdowns hit. It was 12:20, 20-02-2020 (or 02-20-2020 in American numeration of dates). I was there by video. Last week his brother died, 95 years old, also a blessed end with family around and at peace and ready for heaven. May we all pray for such an end, with a Christian family as our legacy. 

As life goes on. 
 This past weekend some of us went to look at a property for sale. A very old, furnished restaurant/house, rambling all over the place in Appenzell. Anybody interested in cheap rent and lots of room for your business? 




With as many chairs as you could want. 



Commercial kitchen, freezers, etc.



Folk art furnishings 


A marvelous ballroom with great acoustics 



With a painted ceiling - one of only two left in the canton. 


Depicting the cantonal folk and their culture 


And flora and fauna


And original log structure attics


Where the community still meets for its festivities.

A piece of history.