The turkeys, again

I was just leaving home when I saw them running from Bea's house over to our pasture. I stopped the car and snuck around the barn and got this shot.

They ran because one of our neighbors came walking up the road with her dog. Why did they not fly?

Then I went on for dinner with Mary Lou and Doug. It was very nice.

Memories

On the roof top garden (Dachterrasse) in Lichtensteig, Canton St. Galen, in 1972. What a wonderful life we are having.

It is so difficult to open any closet, or any drawer, and maintain progress.

If you go Google Earth to 'Lichtensteig, Switzerland', and then follow the main road out of town north, until you have coordinates 47-19-58 N, 9-5-5 E ( that is in degrees-minutes-seconds), you should see two apartment blocks with flat roofs. They are between the main road and what is now called Unterplattenstrasse. This was a dead end when we lived there. Our address used to be Im Loreto. The houses were the last one on the road we lived in the middle unit in the southern block, off the Unterblattenstrasse. You can see the Dachterrasse. Looks like the current tenant kept the concrete planters we had put there. It looks quite overgrown. We often walked across the pasture to the river for play in the water to escape the summer heat.

A little south along the main road towards town stands a small church. Someone posted a picture of it. It's first picture location when you start going south from the apartment building. It is the first church, Iivo, you and I consciously visited. One day you requested to be taken to church and that's where we went. Ema and Kaarin stayed home.

The plant a few steps south from the church is the Toggenburger Waffel Fabrik, on the east side of the road. And a bit more south, the plant on the west side is the old Stoffel plant where I worked. You recognoze it by the shed roofs on two of the buildings. Just north of that plant there is still The Villa, the house we moved into from I'm Loreto, that must have been just after this picture was taken.

And if you go further south, you come to Old Lichtensteig and there are many, many wonderful pictures posted there. Do you remember any of the sights?

Love, Isa

A Corner of Old South Brattleboro

Hi, Evie.  This is a corner of old south Brattleboro, from the rail road tracks along the Connecticut River, just off the parking lot of that restaurant where we snacked a few weeks ago.

I love this shot - a pile of boxes and a rash of textures and colors and all held together by a common perspective. Even the random wires seem to fit in. What's the critique of the professional?  Opa

Beautiful Days

Came back from Bennington over Searsburg mountain this afternoon and, on this last day of summer, started the peeping of the leaves.

It was coming some while ago, already, but today, with the clear blue sky and the brisk fresh air I stopped and looked and wanted to share.

Wishing you all wonderful days ahead and hoping to share some of them with you.

With love to all, Isa, aka Opa, aka Rich

Even'tide on Town Hill

Good night, my loves. Isa