My Daily Banana

 

 

 

Photo of the Day:

 

 

 

 

Event of the Day:

 

21st July 1969

 

Niel Armstrong is the firstman to step on the Moon

 

At 02:50 am GMT he stepped onto the Moon and said "One small step for man and one giant leap for mankind!"

 

 

Birthday of the Day:

 

 

21st July 1948

 

Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Islam
 

 

I loved his music when he called himself Cat Stevens; my girlfriend at the time Eileen also and my daughters love his album Tea for the Tillerman. His first hit recording came out in 1966 "I Love My Dog"; a catchy tune; it reached #28 in the British charts

 

 

Died on this Day:

 

21st July 1796

 

Robert Burns

 

A Scottish poet he died at thirty-seven. His best known poem is "Auld Lang Syne" (a version sung by Rod Stewart)

 

 

Thoughts:

 

Today we went to Leck and had a stroll around the village. It's much nicer than I thought; usually I only drive through the village to and from work. It has quiet roads with quaint thatched roof houses and well-built gentry houses.  I could imagine living in those areas otherwise it is quite a dump.

Thirty years ago, before perestroika, the village boasted two air-force camps and a few thousand soldiers; today there is only one regiment of soldiers and they don't come into or live in Leck like in the past. In the eighties they even had a strip joint, I remember going in there with Heike and her sister. What a dive; that was a once only visit.

 

The roof will not hold much longer.

Leck Hüs
the renovation was funded by the European Union

Someone is paying out a heap of money refurbishing this house

The Tax office

This is not a door, it's an entrance

Isn't this a good piece of ninteenth century architecture?

The vicars house and parish office

A couple of mishaps

 

 

 

 

My Daily Banana

Photo of the Day:

the time on the sundial is one:fifty pm. in Central Europe fourteen:fifty
What ever: Time for a cappuccino

Event of the Day:

20th July 1968

"In-a-gadda-da-vida" recorded by the Dutch heavy metal group Iron Butterfly was the first heavy metal song to enter the Billboard charts, it reached #117

Birthday of the Day:

20th July 1938

The lovely Diana Rigg was born in Doncaster, England

 

 

I will always remember her in a sexy leather cat suit as Emma Peel in the 1960's version of the TV-series the Avengers

20th July 1940

Carlos Santana

He played at Woodstock and revolutionized Latin American music by playing it in a rock style. One of his best recordings was "Black Magic Woman"

Died on this Day:

20th July 1973

Bruce Lee died at the age of 32

 

 

after taking a painkiller to treat a headache; his brain reacted to the medication and swelled from 1400 to 1575 grams a gain of 13%.

Thoughts:

This weather is getting on my nerves! I can't remember when my hayfever last took over my life. Before I get up in the morning my body is itching and when I get up I can't see because it's as if there was a screen stuck to my eyeballs, then the real itching starts; it's a wonder my eyes don't wear out from all the rubbing.

 

Today Heike couldn't sleep, so she got up at seven:thirty; much too early for me, it's Sunday and I don't get out of bed until nine. When I eventually got up she had been waiting an hour and a half for me and I was moody; the poor las'. It's not an easy life living with me!

 

Yesterday we had planned on cycling to Leck to visit our daughter and have a coffee in a cafe that opened last week. The idea was good but it didn't work out, my havfever put an end to our plans. Instead we walked through town and I took some door/entrance photos. Our plan today is Leck again, but in the car, that is if I can persuade Heike to go there with me (we had a bit of a niggle, because of my attitude or as I call it hayfever). Like I said it's taken over my life!

 

 

Friedrich Paulsen School
Main building

Friedrich Paulsen School
Behind this door there used to be a dormitory

Two well kept wooden doors
The house was built in the thirties; I don't know how old the doors are.
 They won't be the original doors, the house was built in a workers estate and sold to the public in the eighties.

I like this house!
The cellar is built above ground and the house on top;
nothing for a handicap person

Today I end with a flower:
how original!

 

That's it for today

My wish is that I will be fresh and friendly tomorrow

We shall see.

My Daily Banana

 

 

 

Photo of the Day:

 

Old love never rusts; I couldn't decide which one I preferred so I uploaded both

 

 

Event of the Day:

 

19th July 1983

 

Michael W. Vannier published the first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head from single slices of a CT in St. Louis, Missouri, United States

 

 

 

Birthday of the Day:

 

19th July 1947

 

Brian May

 

 

Astrophysicist and lead guitarist of the group Queen

 

 

Died on this Day:

 

19th July 1973

 

Clarence White

 

 

The co lead guitarist with Roger McGuinn of the Byrds.

He was hit by the car of a drunken driver while loading equipment into his car after a gig in Palmdale, California; he died at the age of twenty-nine years.

 

 

Thoughts:

 

Yesterday I wrote under a photo this caption, "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose".

That got me thinking: What's the meaning of this line from Gertrude Stein's poem "Sacred Emily"? I came up with two versions:

 

The girl named Rose is as beautiful as a rose; that she be compared to a rose  and a rose is as beautiful as a rose

 

my second version, quite simple really:

 

Rose arose (as in rising) and a rose arose (also as in rising)

 

My preference is the first version; the good old Gertrude liked to play with the English language. I invested some  time and read all nine A4 sides of the poem and couldn't help laughing reading some of her rhymes; that do not rhyme. 

 

Try this verse, I wonder if you understand it; I don't, but then it's art and art is made to appease and not to be understood:

 

Happy happy happy.
All the, chose.
Is a necessity.
Necessity.
Happy happy happy all the.
Happy happy happy all the.
Necessity.
Remain seated.
Come on come on come on on.
All the close.
Remain seated.
Happy.
All the.
Necessity.
Remain seated.
All the, close.

 

 

A plastic door, it looks good from a distance

This one looks good close up

This one as well

The first black bramble
oh deear summer is coming to an end

The rose hips are reddening

Bird food

and one last flower for today

 

Das war's, tschuß bis morgen!

My Daily Banana

 

 

 

Photo of the Day:

 

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
(Quotation from the Sacred Emily, a poem written by Gertrude Stein in 1913
Here you can read the poem Sacred Emily
Anyone who reads the poem from the beginning to the end in one go will earn my respect)

 

 

Event of the Day:

 

18th July 1968

 

Intel is founded in Mountain View, California

 

 

Birthday of the Day:

 

18th July 1895

 

George "Machine Gun" Kelly

 

An American gangster born in Memphis, Tennessee

 

I only know him from a James Taylor song "Machine Gun Kelly" written by Danny "Kooch" Kortchmar

A beautiful song for a rough and reckless robber, kidnapper and bootlegger

 

Died on this Day:

 

18th July 1954

 

George Francis Barns Jr. aka Machine Gun Kelly
 

 

He died from a heart attack while serving a jail sentence in Leavenworth Prisson, on his birthday

 

Thoughts:

 

Today I was in a moody! Nothing was right, I got up had a shower and had to lie down again 'cause I was so tired; well it didn't brighten my day up.

My poor colleagues; it's Thursday which meant we had our Lunchtime gymnastics and they wanted photos to be taken for the Bilfinger magazine. (Information; the firm for which I work belongs to the Bilfinger Group.) I wasn't in the mood for this and told them so; only a few weeks ago I wrote about our gymnastic group in my blog and for this purpose I had taken loads of photos.

They weren't good enough, ok, so I let them use my camera to take some photos themselves. These were so miserable, that I took it in my hand and shot some photos myself.

Have a look and judge yourself which are more interesting, I won't tell which photos I took; I'll just number them:

001

002

003

004



005

Enough of this niggly mood,
I will leave you,
but beware I shall be returning tomorrow

My Daily Banana

Photo of the Day:

Sylvia, her daughter Leanne and grandsons
two lovely and lively lads

Event of the Day:

17th July 1938

 

Douglas Corrigan set off from Brooklyn, New York on a flight to Long Beach, California and landed in Baldonnel Aerodrome, County Dublin, Ireland. He was then nicknamed "Wrong Way' Corrigan"; the name is still commonly used for a person who goes the wrong way.

Birthday of the Day:

17th July 1951

Sylvia Davies (maiden name Martin)

 

Sylvia and hubby Frazer
Greetings and have a good day

My sister was born in Celle, Germany, (bloody Kraut:-)

Have a nice day Sylvie, I'm thinking of you xxx

17th July 1954

Angela Merkel

 

The German Premier Minister (another Kraut)

Happy Birthday Angelika, keep the good work going; you may not be a sight for sorry eyes, but your work and character are top!

Died on this Day:

17th July 1959

Billie Holiday

 

Jazz and blues singer/songwriter, she died at fourty-four, as a result of alcohol and drug abuse she died of liver cirrhosis. Here you can hear her singing "Lady Sings the Blues"

 

Thoughts:

Today I took a photo of a rose (well that's something new). When I opened the photo on my computer I was absolutely dissatisfied with it; the rose had water spots on it, so I thought why not play with it and see what I can make out of it; well here's the result:

 

the original photo

the first spots are removed

the scars of the spots are softened

Now I started on the ratty petals

Soften the jagged edges

 

 

and cut the flower out of the photo

now it can be set into any other photo

 

 

 

See what is possible in just a short time

Don't believe any photo, it could be faked!

 

See you all tomorrow; Bye!