A Postcrossing post card from Jannett in Germany.
Janett lives in the south-east of Germany in a small village near Austria.
This is the Aurora Australis as seen in Antarctica, photographed by Robert Schwarz.
Thanks for the great postcard, Janett!
Year: 2009
Ostseeheilbad Travemunde
A Postcrossing post card from Katrina in Gernany.
Katrina lives in a small town near the Baltic Sea which has the honor of having the oldest lighthouse in Germany, built in 1539.
She works in a kindergarten.
Thanks, Katrina!
Luzerne
Rocking Horse Poo
Rocking Horse Poo. A Geocache in Petrie. So that’s what it looks like 🙂
We had fun finding a Geocache today entitled Rocking Horse Poo. Lilly and Sophie had fun and even picked some of the stuff up.
The imagination of Geocachers never ceases to amaze me!
If you’ve never tried Geocaching, our family would recommend it. It’s a great way to get outside on a Sunday afternoon and have fun.
Suomen Joutsen
A Postcrossing postcard from Anne in Finland.
The three masted, full rigged “Suomen Joutsen” was built in 1902. She has a steel hull and plied the trade routes between ports in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Since this was before the days of the Panama Canal, this means she frequently passed through the treacherous waters of Cape Horn on the southern tip of South America.
In 1930, the Finnish Navy purchased this beautiful ship for use as a Training Vessel.
From the mid 1950’s she was a stationery seamen’s training vessel, but in 1991 she was purchased by the city of Turku and operates as a museum.
What a beautiful grand lady of the sea. And what a gorgeous painting by Håkan Sjöström.
Thanks Anne. You made my day!
Music to Cruise To
 Wine With Sunset by Adam Dawson |
 Sunset Behemoth by Evan Leeson |
Here’s a Reggae style piece I did recently that was inspired by my love of being on the ocean, aboard a ship.
One of my favourite places / times is at sunset at the back of the ship, where there’s usually a bar overlooking the stern. You can’t beat watching the sun go down over the ocean while you sail away from all your cares.
Front Porch Blues
Here’s a really simple 12 bar blues piece I did in about 30 minutes on the WX5 with MixPad.
I can imagine three different versions of me sitting on a front porch somewhere in the Autumn sun drinking a few cold beers, and playing this.
The voices are Trumpet (#5), Clarinet (#99) and Air Sax (#10).
The Secret Pony
Lilly came to me today and read me her partially completed story.
“What else should I write, Daddy?” she asked.
And I replied, “Kids understand magic when they’re your age, but as they grow up most adults forget about it. So I’m not the best person to ask about what to write. You know much more about magic than what I do”.
“But what about Doctor Seuss and Mem Fox”, Lilly retorted. (She’s very astute for her age).
“Ahhh. Doctor Seuss and Mem Fox never forgot what it was like to be a kid”, I answered. “That’s why they’re both so good at what they do”.
Seems like I’ve got a lot of “remembering” to do. Adults are so boring, and such a large part of our lifespan is devoted to being “grown up”. Childhood is so brief….
So brief it makes me want to cry at the tragedy of it all.
“The Secret Pony by Lilly Ennis
Onec upon a time there lived a butyful
girl named cloe. One day when cloe was in the
garden picing strorbries she
found a secret passag throe the garden. it was so butyful. So she wen throe it.
When she got to the end of the secret passag sge sore a pony. It was so butyful.
It had long heir and sparkerling blue eyes. The pony gace her lots of spechal
yummy treats. They played together to but the most imporint thing is that there
friends. The End.”
Don’t forget how to be a kid, Lilly. Once you forget, it’s a long time being a grown-up.