Blooms

 End of Season

And still beautiful.

More Deidesheim

 Family Reunion

I don’t post people pictures here, but we did have some gathering times. This is the town’s Catholic Church, in which grandparents were baptized, married, and where they worshipped.

Down this street is the chapel in which we had our family church service on Sunday morning. 

This is a very old ruined monastery, which has a restaurant, where we had a formal family dinner with relatives. 

On Sunday morning, we came here for our worship service.

While it was much too hot, the weekend went well, and we had a lovely reunion. 

Deidesheim

 Family Reunion

It has not happened for a long time that the whole family has been together, but this summer everyone made it happen. From Friday evening to Sunday afternoon we spent time together. We met in the town of the maternal grandmother‘s family. We got a tour from an old Aunt, seeing sites associated  with family history. We spent time with family members there. On Saturday evening we all met for a formal dinner under the sky in a roofless ruined cloister. The setting was historic. The food was excellent. And we concluded with a lovely church service on Sunday morning in an old chapel we rented. It had an organ, stained glass windows, wood carvings, and very straight-backed pews, that wouldn’t let you fall asleep if you wanted to. The heat was close to unbearable every day. But it had been so for most of the summer. 

We all stayed in this odd shaped house. It did actually fit us, but this corner was quite sharp, and the building had no right angles on its corners. 

In our town tour we started at this fountain. There is a very old tradition that a neighboring town must bring a buck goat to this town every year. It has a big story, and gets celebrated every year. 

Summer gardens and flowers abounded. 

The town is so old, it has few trees left. 

Deidesheim was having its annual Wine Festival. It is historically a notable wine growing area. The residents proudly let visitors know that in the festivities for the opening of the Suez Canal, wine from Deidesheim was served. Many houses have grapevines growing on them. 

To be continued…. 

Late Summer Flowers

 From Garden

Not from garden

Hello, September

 Stay a Bit

August Odds and Ends

The eclipse that wasn’t (at least from our location)

During the not-eclipse 

Sister’s pictures from Florida. We like the birds. We don’t like the alligators.

In the small German town, where we stayed for Family Reunion, a very rare event with all of us together.

The house of our accommodation. Yes, it had this sharp corner, but it really did fit us all. 

The goat fountain in Deidesheim, where we met with relatives. (More on this to follow.)

In Brienz area, by Ballenberg, for a birthday dinner with family. 

These were for sale along the walk back to the car. Garden dwarves.

A local sunset out our window. 

The drain spout on a small local grocery store. 

 Goodbye, August. You didn’t stay around very long, but you sure were full.