Balkans 5

 More Ethno Village

Zürich in Festive Mode

 Sechselaüten is Nigh

This coming weekend is Sechselaüten, the end of winter festival. Two enormous parades, one for children on Sunday and one for adults on Monday, with medieval guild costumes, hundreds of horses and carriages, tens of thousands of flowers, and music will fill the city center for two days. So guild flags are up and a clean city is getting cleaner. 

Oma’s Garden

 In Bloom

I was here yesterday. A neglected and unlived-in garden, but still blooming bravely. The collection of rhododendrons are just starting to put out flowers.

Bleeding Heart

Tulip

The kitchen patio

Evergreen Candy Tuft

Laurustinus

Primula

Vinca minor

Japanese Skimmia

Neighbor: Brahms House

Oregon Grape

Siberian Bugloss

Hellebore/ Lenten Rose

A peek at the neighbor’s garden

Exchorda Racemosa

Snowy Mespilus

All about to be sold, and maybe torn out. 

Balkans 4

 Ethno Village

After leaving Novi Sad, and crossing the border, we came to an “ethno village,” where we spent the night. It had some transplanted old buildings from farms and churches and villages. The trees were in bloom. Black swans were on the ponds. And it had some handsome goats. 

This is a bathroom. Lovely stone work. 

This fellow was testing for a Darwin Award. He was immediately thereafter bitten. 

View from my hotel room. 

My balcony. I would have happily stayed a few days to sketch and paint….

To be continued…..