My Daily Banana

 

 

Photo of the Day:

 

A reflection in a "puddle"
 

 

 

Event of the Day:

 

26th July 1803

 

S.I.R. (Surrey Iron Railway), the World's first public railway was opened in Surrey, England

 

 

It was built to transport goods (mainly coal) and linked Croydon to Wandsworth via Mitcham; the carriages were horse drawn.

 

 

Birthday on this Day:

 

26th July 1943

 

Mick Jagger

 

 

The skeleton front man of the Rolling Stones
I wonder if I'll look like that in ten years?

 

 

26th July 1945

 

Helen Mirren

 

British actress, she played the part of "Our Lizzie" in the film The Queen, she also stared as Elizabeth I in the TV series Elizabeth I. If a film come in TV with Helen in the character list I'm bound to watch it.

Wasn't that a great film where she played the part of Chris Harper in The Calendar Girls?

 

 

 

Died on this Day:

 

 

26th July 2013

 

J J Cale

 

 

That's new for me, I didn't know he was dead, but 74 is a good age

 

I can remember back in the early seventies, sat in the Santa Fee Bar in Westerland, Sylt listening to JJ's  first album Naturally. It is sooo laid back with songs such as "After Midnight", "Call Me The Breeze" or "Cocaine"

 

Thoughts:

 

Driving home today I at last stopped at the maze fielg to takea photo . Hasn't the farmer made a good job of pimping up the field? The perimeter of the field is sown with sunflowers, my second question is: How did he manage that? The drill isn't built to sow single lines of seeds is it?
Yes it can be, I've just Googled and look what I've found:

 

 

 The drill can feed eight or twelve rows. That's new for me, isn't it great how you can learn something new every day just bloging?

The pimped maze field
Look at what I caught in my photo, up in the left corner: a butterfly

It's sunflower time

Small but mine



Light at the end of the tunnel

My light

The Hidden Garden I

The Hidden Garden II

The Hidden Garden III

 

 Have a nice weekend

My Daily Banana

 

 

Photo of the Day:

They will soon be ripe

Event of the Day:

25th July 1969

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young play for the first time together in public at the Fillmore East, New York

From the left:
Neil Young, David Crosby, Graham Nash and Stephen Stills

 

I love the songs "Our House" and "Marrakesh Express".

When Graham Nash formed the group with the other three they nearly signed up on the Apple Label, but were turned down by George Harrison; who thought they would not sell. How wrong he was.

 

25th July 1978

Louise Brown was born

She was the first test-tube baby and was manufactured in Oldham General Hospital England

Wasn't she a sweet baby

Now she's lost that test-tube form

 

 

Birthday of the Day:

 

25th July 1943

James Stanley "Jim" McCarty

 

 

Drummer and singer of the Yardbirds  (For Your Love) and later Renaissance (Ashes are Burning)

 

Died on this Day:

25th July 1958

Harry Warner

 

 

A film pioneer and one of the three Warner Brothers who founded the Warner Bros. studio. He was president of the company until 1956.

Thoughts:

 

Today I walked through town and didn't take any photos! Well two of a bramble bush, but that doesn't count. The flowers don't thrill me anymore, the most of them are wilting away because of the heat and sun. Have you noticed the farmers are ploughing the fields? That's a sure sign of the approaching autumn, I'm not being pessimistic, it's a feeling I get every year when it's harvest time. If you think further it's really the beginning of the next year, the corn has ripened and the field are being sown; the cycle begins anew.

 

 

Enough for today,

I'll come around again tomorrow. Till then bye, have a nice day!

My Daily Banana

Photo of the Day:

Event of the Day:

24th July 1938

Instant Coffee was invented

 

 

I can remember drinking quite a bit of instant coffee when I lived in Britain. Horrible stuff, when I was on holiday in England last month I had a cappuccino in a restaurant and it was made from instant coffee: How low can you go? Yuck:-((

Birthday of the Day:

24th July 1969

Jennifer Lopez

 

 

Hasn't she got a sexy backside? I quite like watching her acting. I enjoyed watching the film "Monster-in-Law" ("Schwiegermonster") in which she co-stared with Jane Fonda; there were a few other films I saw in which she played that I enjoyed, but my mind is like a sieve, they're gone.

Died on this Day:

24th July 1960

 

Hans Albers

 

 

The great actor and singer from Hamburg, Germany. His most known song was "Auf der Reeperbahn Nachts um halb eins" from the film "Grosse Freiheit Nummer 7" produced in 1944 during the Nazi regime; the film was first released in 1945 by the British occupational regime.

 

24th July 1980

 

Peter Sellers

 

 

Next to Spike Milligan the best comedian that Britain produced. In the fifties they performed together in the legendary Goon Show. Later he stared as Inspector Clouseau in the film series The Pink Panther.

 

Thoughts:

 

Forty-three years ago today was a Saturday, I had the weekend off from work. At the time I worked for Plessey Telecommunications as a wireman. This weekend was special, my girlfriend Eileen was away on holiday with her parents, and I had a ticket for the Tupholme Folk Festival in Bardney near Lincoln. The ticket for the one day festival cost £2-00p., what a price. Go to a concert today, I am next month, a minor act, and the tickets were on sale for EUR 38,50 that's £30 for a two hour concert. The times they are a changing!

 

In Bardney that day 43 years ago the sun was shining, the atmosphere was peaceful and calm and the music phenomenal. There were three highlights which I remember:

Buffy St. Marie, a Cree Indian she sang so beautifully; if my memory serves me right she had a very husky voice and her songs were stories. Listen to the song Soldier Blue

 

The next highlight was the late coming group The Byrds. They started with an acoustic song (the whole festival was under the motto acoustic folk music); after that as an intro, they said something like "And this is what you wanted to hear" and exchanged their acoustic instruments for  electric. The crowd went wild but they abided by the motto and went back to playing unplugged.

 

Most amazing was the performance of James Taylor. He was so cool and sang the crowd nearly into sleep, I've never seen so many people laid-back singing along with the songs. It was indescribable!

 

One more thing, if anyone who is reading was at the festival: Do you remember the Meeting Tree? I don't know why, but when I think of the festival the big oak tree at the end of the field always comes to my mind. Wasn't that a great festival? It was the best I have ever been to.

The link down below it to an internet thread that is still going; the oldies like me can put down their thoughts concerning the festival. Look it up, you'll se that I'm not the only one who enjoyed the day!

http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=82227#1505450

 

Niebüll Vicarage

The windows are original double windows

Another small mishap

 

 

Was that interesting today?

It was for me, it brought back memories from my youth!

My Daily Banana

 

 

 

Picture of the Day:

 

Hazelnuts

 

 

Event of the Day:

 

 

23rd July 1966

 

 

Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"

 

Birthday of the Day:

23rd July 1938

Götz George

German actor  best known for his roll as Chief Inspector Schimanski from Duisburg in the German Tatort series.

 

 

 

Died on this Day:

 

23rd July 2011

 

The beautiful Amy Winehouse joined the infamous 27 club.

 

She died of alcoholic poisoning

What a waste!!

 

 

 Thoughts:

Yesterday I was asked about the photo of the wall painting / etching or you could say chiseling. I did a little research and came up with tons of information. to begin with the artist was Alexandre Farto aka Vihls.
Vihls and his team made four pictures in Berlin for the Levi's Jeans "Go Forth" campaign. The motives were chosen to show the optimism and pioneer spirit of the youth of today. The photo that I published was of a karaoke pioneer in Berlin, Joe Hatchiban. He went into parks with his battery operated karaoke machine and rocked the people there.

http://www.artschoolvets.com/news/2011/07/14/levis-go-forth-kampagne-in-berlin/

During our stroll through Leck on Sunday I took some photos of doors, I hope you find them interesting

 

 

 

That's it for today.

See you all tomorrow, have a nice day!