A weekend

Where did the weekend go.

It went by so fast...with lots of sun and good food ...

#1 Eight-Nine-Six-Seven-Five on my walk

#2 Blue

#3-5 cutting, squezing oranges to poach pears in their juice with prunes

#6 the breakfast: Yoghurt with linseed oil, grounded linseed and the poached pears with orange juice

#7 Getting veggies at the market

#8 We had a great Saturday lunch.

Hers: Bread with fennel and roisins, avocado, cheddar and olive oil

#9 His: Mustard, roasted lamp and rocket

#10 Blood orange

#11 shiny leaves

#12 The cinnamon pastry I was talking about the other day.

How was your weekend?

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walks

I feel the need to walk walk walk...

To go out and explore, to take new ways or just enter little paths which look inviting...To get lost and find ways which seem familiar again...Here are a few shots from my last days...

#1 me

#2-8 walking

#9 We buy our bread from the wonderful bakery Sonoma which also has a few nice cafés here. I will take a picture of the amazing cinnamon pastry they make. It was gone too fast ... so next time : )

#10 It was raining all day on Tuesday and I was baking chocolate-apricot-cookies

I look forward to tomorrow when the Young Blood Design Market is taking place here for the weekend...

and guess what...I am ready to leave the house now for a long walk again...

Have a wonderful day

Maria

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Another day, another walk

A few images from my four hours walk to and through the Botanic Gardens yesterday. I really enjoyed walking in there..and it seems surreal to me when at some point I suddenly saw the Opera House in front of me....It still has this postcard - image to me if you know what I mean...

There is lots to explore here...I wander around and look and see and enjoy...

Thank you so much for all your lovely comments. They really mean a lot ... and it is great to get to know a few of you who I haven't 'met' before : )

I wish you a wonderful weekend

Maria

#1 a bench and its shadow

#2 Hi Sydney, it's me...and wearing my red wool hat

#3 I know..another one of the feet images...I like these tiles which you see a lot here

#4 'disco' window

#5 A heart in the window

#6 ...

#7 four here...

#8 a pool, which seemed so pretty to me and calm

#9 blurry opera house

#10 green in the gardens

#11 the flying foxes the biggest bats hanging in the trees of the Botanic Gardens. Will says they look like huge bats wearing leather jackets : )

#12 so colourful

#13 I think the people here see that I am from Europe just how I enter the street. Most of the times I look into the wrong direction

#14 The leaf was lying on the street in front of our apartment. I think it looks like a mouth

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Jumper love

My mum used to work in a wool shop back in the days and knitted many of the jumpers my brother and I wore when we were little. She also knitted jumpers on commission for people who couldn't knit and in the late evenings when she had some time left she was working on a few cardigans and jumpers for herself. She kept all of them in a closet up in the attic and last weekend when I have been at home I was looking through this closet and found those two jumpers she made when she was my age or even younger...I couldn't believe how great they are, the colours, the patterns, their condition - thinking that they are already 20 years old...I was wondering how long it must have taken her to knit them and also how great it is to make something like this which lasts so long.

She asked me if I would like to have them and I took them up with me to Hamburg and really love to wear them especially as it is so cold and snowy outside. I think it is great to get things passed on. It has such a great worth to me and I am proud when people ask me were I got them from and I can say my mom made them...

In the meanwhile I am still sitting here on my little scarf knitting project which is not really comparable with the things my mum knitted to this time..but I try and maybe one day I can pass it on too which I can imagine must be a nice feeling too...

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White

I am back from my mind-trip to Sweden.

Thanks for your nice comments and your thoughts on this : )

The reality looks a bit different here: snow snow snow the whole weekend...

I went out for a walk and watched ducks flying.

Enjoyed the tiny bit of sun we got..outside and inside..

Had tea with a friend and ate a great blueberry pastry.

Bought some hibernation food at the farmers market: walnuts hmm

Sewed a birthday gift for a friend which I will show later in the week. As it is a little surprise.

Got this beautiful song send.

/M

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