woods - the fleeting world; bubbles in a stream

August 16, 2023 Landscapes

Bromfiets- en Rijwielstalling

“Gestern abend in der stillen Ruh’,
Sah ich im Wald einer Amsel zu;
Als ich da so saß,
Meiner ganz vergaß:
Kommt mein Schatz und schleichet sich um mich
Und küsset mich.”

(Folksong Waldeinsamkeit)
Wijlre (NL)

March 4, 2019 What has been left

Hopeless sadness in a green oasis

“Traurigkeit erfüllte sein Herz. Eine milde Traurigkeit, die ein ergebenes Lächeln erhellt,
wenn wir auf eine Hoffnung verzichten, an die wir in Wirklichkeit nie geglaubt haben.”

(M.Bánffy in In Stücke gerissen)
Montigny-le-Tilleul (B)

March 21, 2014 Landscapes Post a Comment

Pluviomètre no. 13

“Beyond the horizon, behind the sun
At the end of the rainbow life has only begun
In the long hours of twilight ‘neath the stardust above
Beyond the horizon it is easy to love.”

(Bob Dylan in Beyond the Horizon)
Liège (B)

November 1, 2012 Landscapes Post a Comment

The lonely bridge

“There are bridges on the rivers,
As pretty as you please;
But the bow that bridges heaven,
And overtops the trees,
And builds a road from earth to sky,
Is prettier far than these.”

(Ch. Rossetti in Boats sail on the rivers)
Vaux-sous-Chêvremont (B)

July 11, 2012 Landscapes Post a Comment

The chain in the woods

“How calm it was! — The silence there
By such a chain was bound,
That even the busy woodpecker
Made stiller by her sound
The inviolable quietness …”

(P.B. Shelley in The recollection)
Wanze (B)

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Bromfiets- en Rijwielstalling

Hopeless sadness in a green oasis

Pluviomètre no. 13

The lonely bridge

The chain in the woods