Tag: Park

Spring Is Acoming

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I like this shot of our local park. All that is missing are people, then it would be very close to Cee’s photo.

And although it is not yet Easter, it’s been such a mild winter that Cee’s strollers in the park reminded me of the famous “Easter Walk” from Goethe’s Faust (the translation is by Edgar Alfred Bowring):

From the ice they are freed, the stream and brook,
By the Spring’s enlivening, lovely look;  [....]
Growth and formation stir everywhere,
‘Twould fain with colours make all things bright,
Though in the landscape are no blossoms fair.
Instead it takes gay-decked humanity.

Faust observes people leaving the city for their first spring walk-about on Easter Sunday. There are not enough flowers yet, so the people in their Sunday finery supply the colours.

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My home is a castle

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I was truly privileged as a child.  We lived in a modest house but the back garden bordered the high wall surrounding the castle grounds.  In my father’s day this park was off bounds for the townspeople (except on Easter Sunday or Monday, for a couple of hours).  Nowadays the park is public and the castle is the town hall.  To me, it was always the playground just behind the house.

For The Daily Post where Cheri asked to share a favourite place. More favourite places can be found here.