Endless Blue Silence

Sunday after the birthday party, taking care of a slight hangover, cleaning up the house. I was lazy but Sabine convinced me that we should take a walk, and maybe not one of our short standard walks around the hill, but something a little more special. The weather was cold and sunny, spectacular compared to most of the rather grey January.

We drove to a village called Frangenberg, near Linde, a few miles from here, and took a round walk around the hills at Breidenbach and Spich, under a deep blue sky, with wonderful views. The end-of-January sun had already some power, and there was a hint of early spring.

We discovered an old stone cross, nothing unusual in this area, but this one (150 years old) had my name chiseled into it ... hmmm ...

Sometimes we stopped and listened ... there was the hum of a very far away plane, surrounded by a silence that was deep and rich and stretched out far in all directions.

Back home we had cherry cake and coffee and then we put these images on my computer and looked at them and had half of the chocolate candy box that Vera and Michael had given to me yesterday ... they were REALLY good