….at Caffee Moguntia’s Tin Shed On Wheels on the market in Mainz Fate brought us together. Just a bit too late, IMHO. We’d got back from Boston at 5:15…
You can tell that the leaves are falling….. She can have 3 big bags full from me. For free…. Category: Mainzer Seasons
…under an autobahn flyover. Royalty on the left doesn’t look utterly convinced that it’s going to hold…
Uncrenellated (look it up), at that. The Brand shopping precinct in Mainz at its most inviting.
You’ll rarely find a subject as photogenic as Peter Krings. Lucky me. (Talking about weaving: I once told Meg, a highly skilled fabric artist and co-author of Nelson Daily Photo,…
If blue-skinned grapes are WHITE inside, how do they make RED wine? Gather round, children, and I’ll tell you a story. It’s a bit confusing. You all thought that they…
any spiny-finned, freshwater food fish of the genus Perca a solid measure for stone, usually taken as 198 inches by 18 inches by 12 inches any place or object, as…
…definitely came from Mainz. A strong westerly last Thursday pushed them all the way over to Frankfurt….
…to stay on the aforementioned straight and narrow when the stuff looks this good…
…to stay on the straight and narrow when you’re surrounded by raw materials like this…
And Part 3 of the Egon Schönberger story The Schönbergers were Neustadt [New City] folk. Of course, “new” around here has a different connotation to where I grew up (oldest…
That’s how the locals pronounce it, anyway, and after 30 or so years, I can just about manage it too. Klein-Winternheim (bits of it, anyway) in the foreground, Ober-Olm in…
You’ll find Fina Alonso at the market in Bad Kreuznach on a Friday. And at Frank and Ingrid Jung’s Open Studio event in autumn. Not that I’m one of her…
Peter Krings (in real life, a hydraulics engineer) repairs the woven seating of antique chairs. “Sometimes, I think it’s punishment for some unknown crime” he said. Seen at Karina Jungenheimer’s…
Kupferbergterrasse
…James Dean” said Volkmar and Rosi Nauth’s son on Wednesday. “Especially when I take a drag…”* Know the feeling. I was hobbling around on crutches after a meniscus operation a…
Seen at Karina Jungenheimer’s open day in (sister) Rosi Nauth’s wonderful courtyard. Head: Peter Krings, chair seat basketry Hands: Rosi Nauth Feet: Unknown customer with Physallis Head, Hands and Feet? …
Gudrun Klag’s excellent flower stand on the market in Mainz is a perfect indicator of the seasons. Their bunches start out as “Mainzer Frühling” [Spring], change to “Mainzer Sommer” [Summer]…
St Martin will have to do. I had Kurt Beck, Premier of Rhineland-Palatinate, all lined up for a silhouette portrait, but he held a press conference on Friday to tell…
I’ve put this through Google Translate, but that didn’t come up with a legible version either….
Sunday’s Child Uli’s mother-in-law’s mum, Katharina Roth, must had a stunning designer back in the 1960s or early 1970s. The only thing that gives this away as not being from…
Work this out for yourselves. A university lecturer (lost her card…) does this sort of stuff in her spare time. Makes a box out of cardboard (phenomenal artisanal skills, believe…
Used to be, anyway. If you want to cross the Rhine anywhere between Wiesbaden and Koblenz ( a good hour’s drive) , you’re stuck with using ferries. Ferry operators are…
“Now take your time. Does any of these creatures look like the one who shat on your head?”
The Katharinenkirche in Oppenheim spoiling a late evening view of the Mainz Basin, a tertiary marine basin that for a time (shortly before we moved here, actually…) linked the North…
…memories… er….the dog shit and the trash…” The perpetrator (or someone with a keen sense of the absurd) wrote underneath “Oh, you’re very welcome”
Now, I’m not for the Nanny State, with bureaucrats telling you what you can and can’t do at their whim (Friends are renovating a 1930s cottage in New Zealand. It’s…
…Winkel jb. It appears that I fell under the spell of the Demon Alcohol sometime back in September, nodded off, time-warped and woke up just before Christmas. That’s my only…
It’s not that I’m paranoid, but these sunflowers keep following me… Now wonder the Italians call them Girasole. Trivia alert: That’s where Jerusalem Artichokes come from. Although the plants are…
At Ulla Nelles-Halft‘s studio
Mainz Daily Photo 