Saturday, January 19, 2008

Sábado, step-by-step

mein Samstag in zwölf Schritten
my Saturday in twelve steps
my Sábado en doce pasos

1. an early visitor - loud singing bird


2. my neighbor's cat, britney, she visits me on the weekends and seats at the front steps of my door


3. britney trying to sneak into my house, again...


4. early blooming in the entrance little plants, an early spring?


5. new leaf of a little plant i rescued in 2007, it's growing!


6. my new tea warmer arrived in a very neat box


7. peppermint cut leaf organic tea and black ceylon pettiagalla


8. another little bird - outside my kitchen window having his Nektar-Mittagessen


9. time for the new tea warmer test


10. und später... a second tea warmer test


11. finished reading Carlos Ruiz Zafón's 'Marina'


12. and the book, even though is in Spanish, came all the way from here with me

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

old lady shoes



meine alte Jungfer schuhe

i got these shoes while my mom was here
this past December 2007
she, or we, were in the frenzy x-mas shopping
the shoes were on sale!
really cheap for some fake liz clairbone shoes
not that i care for brands but i do like the nice NOT leather
and nice built on a pair of shoes
they were my size
and the most important part
they are very comfortable for walking
and perfect fit for the office...

anyway, they were on sale
they were 'somehow' my style
flat, moccasin, black conservative shoe

but today, that i finally wore them for the 1st time
oh, they really look old-fashioned...
and i know i am getting to be an old-lady
reading Agatha Christie mysteries and
crackling laugh... but
damn looking at my feet today with the old-lady shoes
and these gray tights, really made me feel
like an old lady, but a happy silly one

i always figured i could end up
like one of these ladies that like mysteries
like legendary Miss Marple
or at least like Jessica Fletcher!
the "Murder, she wrote"
by Angela Lansbury
i would be flattered if i do!!
oh my role models heh heh

by now just at least
i already have
1. the old-fashioned detective literary taste
and...
2. the old maid shoes

what's next?

Monday, January 14, 2008

too much Baumkuchen?



not sure if one can have much of this
wonderful german cake

oh baumkuchen!

but i ate almost a whole 1
this weekend and then
and i was so lazy!
couldn't and didn't
do too much for 2 whole days
initiative abandoned me
and if any appeared
was just to call for more
baumkuchen

mmm? took over my will
the darn great cake



and strange...
'cause then at the touch
of caffeine this Monday morning

i had a free-way drive
full of epiphanies
yellow epiphanies over
dark gray freeway 15 pavement

colors and rays of light
as i drove

crumbs, and sweets, and breads
to exchange for your soft real embrace

gray pavement
and more yellow lights
tomorrow
as i will drive again

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Düsseldorf Flughafen

ein regnerischer Morgen am Düsseldorfer Flughafen
4 Januar 2008 - 7.26.50 AM

a rainy morning at Düsseldorf Airport
January 4th, 2008 - 7.26.50 AM

una mañana lluviosa en el Aeropuerto de Düsseldorf
4 de Enero del 2008 - 7.26.50 AM



and this scene, same airport
many many years ago
from an Artikel at
Das Magazine a free publication for travellers
of the Düsseldorf airport
rather interesting men fashion those days...



1955 Heile Welt
Deutsche Pfadfinfer kehren am 30. August mit einer KLM DC-4 vom Weltpfadfindertreffen an den Niagarafällen nach Düsseldorf zurück.

Friday, January 11, 2008

"... der Himmel ist blau..."

here my favorite song from this
growing-on-me album
Jazz ist Anders
"Himmelblau"



die Ärzte, in my car...


and the ala zombie video of Junge

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

concerned

the feeling of today
is
worried, uneasy
at my own home

a strange episode last night
and i was reminded of the fragility of life

just as i was feeling settled again here
with mister/herr/señor Kiyo who is back at home!
and his new friend meine luminous Eidechse...


Kiyo, his mirror, and his new luminous friend Eidechse

and then some episodes
you just don't see them coming
accidents, and other violent matters
occur just like that
unexpectedly...

and to confess, i am afraid
the quintessential German word
die Angst
takes over my dorsal spine
one vertebrae at the time

as related the story of last night
episode's this morning, came to my mind
this scene from
"The Night of the Hunter"



"It's a hard world for little things..."

creepy, but an excellent film
from 1955, don't miss it!
Robert Mitchum as the bad guy...


Kiyo and his traveling house

Monday, January 07, 2008

vista

long monday.
windows vista installed at work.
bad.



(but at least)
got the Adobe CS3 Web Premium.

oh that means Photoshop CS3.
hm.
hmm.
hmmm.

jet-lag a bit still.

petit monday blues

perhaps
vielleicht
'cause san diego is this morning
again
wieder
covered by mist and rain

perhaps
vielleicht
'cause
i have to come into work again

perhaps
vielleicht
'cause the wonderful Urlaub is over

perhaps
vielleicht
is why i have this monday melancholy today
but it is a petit, mild melancholy

like a sweet memory afar
of a nice fragrance, of a happy smell

the kind of melancholy
that almost feel comfortable
like a gray spongy pillow
a melancholy that is nice...

Sunday, January 06, 2008

feliz año nuevo 2008

Frohes Neues Jahr!
Happy New Year!
¡Feliz Año Nuevo!

i think is not too late for this post
wishing a happy new year if you come across here



i know that what cross this wintry german sky is
just a plane
but my little soul got tricked into the belief
that is a falling star!
eine Sternschnuppe...
loaded with warm wishes of love and peace
for this new year

i wish that a falling star
crosses your sky too
and drops on her way
for you some warm dreams
and

Prost!
Cheers!
y... ¡Salud!

Sunday, December 23, 2007

taking off

life flies
and we take off
another Christmas
another year



and merry Christmas!
and let hope make softer
the colors of your life
these memories, these years

warm wishes!
as your eyes pose here

abfliegen, Christmas, der Urlaub, taking off