I enjoy exploring new tracks, observing the nature and listening to the whisper of the wind. My first mountain bike tour this year was bloody hard work for my legs, but desperately needed for my soul! New ideas. And also new UriKuri POSTCARDS – click! Fritillaria meleagris/Erythronium dens-canis, Hepatica nobilis, Omphalodes verna/ Lathyrus vernus
Continue readingI was travelling by myself to Istanbul in 2008. There I met one of the greatest musicians and a darbuka player, a man with the golden groove, Hakan Kaya, who taught me how to play the darbuka. …two weeks living with the musicians in the heart of Istanbul, being part of turkish weeding, practising and listening to so many different kinds of folk music, smoking ”nargile”, drinking a tasteful ”çay”, a good black turkish coffee and ”Rakı” with friends… it’s for sure, everything ends someday, but good…
Continue readingMemories…. …of roasting fermented Cocoa seeds in Granada, making raw chocolate bars and drinking hot cocoa with chili…so delicious! I admit, diving near ”Bat Islands” eye to eye with Bull Sharks…brrrr, it was scary! Such a magnificent animal! (I forgot how to clear my mask – what an amateur!). And a night dive in the Carribean ”Islas del Maíz” : a funny pose of a turtle, naping on a reef …cross my heart, I didn’t…
Continue readingWhile travelling, my main ‘tools’, carried in my bag, are always: a book made with cold-pressed watercolour paper (usually Moleskine or Stillman & Birn), my water brush (any kind), a few pens and of course my water-colour paints (Schminke). Sketchbook as my mini diary of feelings and stories follows me everywhere, actually since I travelled around Egypt for one month in 2007. I decided to share with you some of my fun memories from my travels and vacations.…
Continue readingI received a kind mail from Kate with her photo of a sheep, called Rambo. Rambo used to live in Australia and Kate asked me if I could draw him. I said to myself: “Sure, why not, he’s so cute!!” I tried to paint him just the way he was from my point of view, courageous, persistent, strong but kind and soft-hearted at the same time. I really hope and wish that my painting reflects the correct image of him, do…
Continue readingThe Cairns Birdwing (Ornithoptera euphorion) is a species of birdwing butterfly endemic to northeastern Australia and is Australia’s largest endemic butterfly species (up to 150mm). He was landing on my head.
Continue readingThe hoopoe (upupa epops L.) is an old-word bird. It hails from Africa. And it brings wisdom. In oriental the hoopoe shelters Solomon. The king of the hoopoes asks of Solomon a reward for having shielded the king from the rays of the sun. Solomon grants the request by bestowing golden crowns upon all hoopoes. This arouses the jealousy of the other birds, causing them to persecute the hoopoes. They complain to Solomon, and he,…
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