hAPPY NEW YEAR 2024

  

Happy New Year

The Best is yet to come.

Gina

Merry Christmas

 Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas

Gina

Happy Thanksgiving

 

Wishing you, my dear Friends, a very happy Thanksgiving

Gina

Blooming

Blooming in my Garden

 

Pansies and 

Daisies and 

Salpiglossis 

Happy Sunday to you and yours, 

Gina

Easter 2023

 Happy Easter 

Wishing you a very special day

 with family and friends

Gina

A Miracle

Will it work Part II

 It's just a little stick

He showed me how to prepare a grape branch for grafting

It is an especially sweet grape 

growing in the fertile soil, under spewing  Mt Etna Volcano.

We walked through the vineyard, always aware of the smoke rising from Mt Etna

See the rocks at the base of the barrels? 

 Mt Etna volcano reminds everyone who is  in charge. 

And what about that stick?

It came home with me to give to my neighbor who is going to graft it onto his grape stock. 

  What else do you give a neighbor who has taken such good care of my animals  and property while I was having a grand time in Italy. 

And now my neighbor has achieved the almost impossible.  

That dried up old stick I carried around with me has come back to life. 

 

Salute

Gina

Nothing, nothing at all

flowers are hiding under the snow

                 All photos from my 2021 garden

They are still sleeping

No flowers for the house. 

Even too cold for pansies.

Not even a Hellebore in sight.

When are they going to show their faces?

There is only this

and nothing more

Enjoy your flowers, 

mine will come soon enough

Gina 

Wondering where to go this Summer

 

Why not consider this secret little spot?

Where horses are ready to take your for a ride,

their face made of velvet

The Hotel Gasthof Metzgerei Keindl is a good place to start y our journey.

But where is this place you say? 

There are two little towns. Oberaudorf and Niederaudorf.
You will find them hidden in a valley between Munich and Innsbruck. 

Not so far from the Alps.




The church is tiny but it's treasures within are formidable. 

When the cows come back from the mountains they always stop first by  this fountain. 

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They do this every night. 

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They spend their days in the mountains. This is where you can hike to your heart's content.  

Or you can stay in the valley visiting the Kloster Reisach in Unteraudorf. 
There are walking and bicycle routes everywhere. 

A fine Konditorei awaits you in Oberaudorf. 

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Cafe Luckner (das Torten Paradies) 
serves great coffee, fabulous ice cream, finest chocolates and oh, those amazing cakes. 


    

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She's got it made. 

One thing I could never  figure out is where 
Niederaudorf and where Oberaudorf belong on the map.  
But they are so close together that it doesn't matter.  

Auf Wiedersehen  

Stay well dear friends, 
Gina

Snow

 New snow every morning

Aren't we lucky

To the house, looks a lot closer than it is.

It gets farther and farther away when you begin shoveling

Even white inside

Days are short

Wishing you a great week ahead,

Gina