CI, did you take any photos from the auto interior on your speedy ride through Germania? she says, picturing unfocused streaks outside side windows...
I mention this as a somewhat practiced car photo-er.
My business partner has this annoying, over time - stepping aside, understandable - need to be in control, so of course she likes to be the driver. Fine with me, I'd hate to have her in the passenger seat counting off steering errors, especially going through my favorite forest.
So, I have as a slightly trapped passenger who happens to paint tried to photo this place or that. Hard to stop, as the highway doesn't allow for that all so much.
I quickly learned that the photos out of the front window turned out better than those from the sides.
I did get a painting out of a photo like that, some time ago...
as my exhub drove over the bridge to Hemet (dammit) around the year end holidays, we were near the last over a bridge in a wild and wooly rainstorm before it split apart. My out of focus out of window was a neg I had blown up into an 11 x 14 and eventually did a painting of. No big deal except that I liked being there and doing that.
Professor Walter was our driver-guide from Amsterdam to Lippstadt.
Our hotel in Lippstadt, the Jonathan.
Walter and Ulla. Some of the nicest people I know on this planet.
Don't ask me about this 'strange' couple at our gathering in Lippstadt. I think his name was McTag, and her name is Urs.
The bicycle garage in Munster.
Remain of church in Lippstadt.
Browsing at the museum in Munster.
Recognize anyone? On the left seated are Urs and Walter. Standing in the middle are Clary, Diane and McTag.
And finally, the group of the Lippstadt a2k Gathering.
Okay, I got the dope on what "that" gerbera flower is from a very good source - a botany professor.
"It is a Transvaal Daisy, a native of South Africa. Actually it is a cultivar developed from crosses between Gerbera jamesonii and Gerbera viridifolia. It seems to be the cultivar called Brigadoon Red."
Raise your hand if you already knew that!
Good pix, and good flower research!
Good botanical research. And the breeders were probably right nearby. I found the photo of the red tulip with the white tulips in the background to be smashing! Caught my breath as it suddenly popped into view.
sumac, Glad you thought that photo was "smashing." Made my day.
I knew, and within the same timespan dys knew, that it was gerbera. Jamesonii is the cultivar we see here in the western US, but the leaves differ, which perplexed me.
I'm glad there is eventual identification as a mix, thank you, CI.
On the delightful photographic ride - I loved it.
My favorite is the fuzzy photo of McTag and Urs with the contrasting backgrounds. I enjoyed all of the photos immensely.
C.i., your journal is bringing back some treasured memories. Dys and I didn't take good notes, so you are our travelogue and diary rolled into one.
The photos are gorgeous. Have I told you yet how sweet and cute you are?
Thanks for the photos, c.i.!!!
(The one above the group, in Münster, is not from the museum but from the 'peace hall' in the ancient Münster Town Hall'.)
