Today I woke up to grey (gray? I can't spell anymore) skies and cold weather... I could actually see my breath.. ha, I wonder how warm it is in Waterford... I'll check right now... handy dandy weather.com... 73° according to my findings... What temperature does air have to be in order for one to see one's breath... 50°? 45°? I don't know. After eating breakfast I ventured outside to the cold frontier that has now become my home away from home... So melodramatic I know... I took some photographs of Eva's garden and found a HUGE slug, which are called die Schnecken (pl). I will enclose pictures of it at the end of this post. When I saw the slug I immediately thought of you, Maia, and the photograph you took and then gifted to us in our IDS class. I saw Nistershums (talk about not being able to spell) and for some reason seeing the same flowers growing in Eva's garden that I earlier photographed at home, in Waterford lit up my heart. I am over 3,000 miles away from where I grew up, but the same plants are growing here as grow there! AMAZING!
After I took pictures of the flowers, I went with Emmerich up into the town of Idolsberg to document the 500 year old church side building with him. They tore the ENTIRE thing down this afternoon, and hopefully I can get some more photographs of it tomorrow, when the light comes back.
Here are the photos... The amount of flower pictures I took was limited because the wind picked up about halfway through... and the flowers became 'unshootable'
roses
black-eyed susans
die Schnecke
die Schnecke - all other wildlife in Austria is very small, except for some reason, the slugs grow to mammoth sizes...
Wie ich jetzt fühle...
the inside wall... yeah, I'd say this building's been around for awhile.
500 year old Cellar. WOW.
the toilet in the building...
just as a little side-note. If you click on the images, you can get to a larger version. They are a bit confined and small on this blog. enjoy!
2 comments:
That slug is going to give me nightmares...*shudder*
Love the black and white slug, the cellar, and, most especially, the toilet. I'd like a print of that one for my bathroom. Wanna trade?
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