Fasnet is what they call the pre-Lent season (known as Carnival in the U.S.) in this part of Germany. Fasnet, a traditionally Catholic celebration, is actually not marked in a big way here in historically Protestant Tübingen, although there is … Continue reading
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Before the temperatures around here plummeted over the weekend and all the puddles froze, I took a few more of my “puddle world” photos on Friday.
A couple of follow-ups on stories seen on the blog this week:
That talk I gave at the d.a.i. wasn’t the only presentation about photography I gave on Tuesday. The last day of the class I’ve been taking on learning words that help you talk about art in German was Tuesday morning, … Continue reading
Thanks to everybody for all the well-wishes here and elsewhere regarding my photography talk last night at the d.a.i. here in Tübingen. I’m happy to report that all went very well.
You heard it here first. As I reported back in October, a body was discovered under a car park in Leicestershire, England that was thought to be that of King Richard III. It seems that one version of what happened … Continue reading
I focused on just the color “blue” the other day, but today I have just a few quick expressions to show that both German and English are full of many colorful expressions. Literally.
Today I’m in the midst of preparing for a talk I’m giving next week on 20th Century American Photographers. The final announcement for it just went up today in the “upcoming events” portion of the website for the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut … Continue reading
A while back the owner of the hair salon where I get my hair cut encouraged me to color my hair. The encounter was more like an intervention:
The German word for the color “blue” is blau. In my German class today we learned a bunch of expressions that involve the color blue.