Lilies!

 And Blooms

The roses are mostly done blooming, but amazingly the wisteria is re-blooming. It hasn’t ever for us, though I hear it blooms continuously in Texas. The gladioli* keep maturing blooms one by one, so I have house flowers. And, I had three lilies bloom. Mostly that was while I was gone last week, but I brought one in to scent the house. 

* We are dutifully informed that the acceptable plural forms of gladiola (Latin, “little sword”) are gladiolas (common), gladioli (formal and proper), and gladiolus (which is weird).

More Wangen

 Town Center

Rathaus/City Hall

The Reader

Note the little salamanders all over.

Piebald pigeon.

Wangen, Inside the Walls

 Through the Gates

The archway leads through the thick wall into the city proper.

This is the old mill. An old sister lived there with her cats for many long years. It is now a museum. 

Wangen -Again

 In the Summer

We went to Germany for our church service, and had a sister along, so we did a walk about to show her the historic town center. First, a walk along the River and the city walls.

City walls and fountain 

A park outside the city walls

A traveling poet

To be continued….

St. Gallen

 Sister Visit

When she finished her 1000km. Camino in Spain, she came yo see us and is now considering the Swiss portion. The Swiss Jacobsweg (the Pilgrimage route) goes through St. Gallen, so we went to see it. Pilgrimages go to the main churches, of course, so we went there. There are the scallop shells on streets and signs and in front of the cathedral showing the way. 

The Abbey Cathedral 

Fountains are dressed for summer.

Restaurant Salad: Arugula, dried ham, watermelon, feta, lentils, “rice” pasta. 

The Reformed Church