Enjoy today's story, related to my topic of the year: 300 years Bach's chorale cantatas, and the first was written for today, - listen to the music, beginning with a French overture for a chorale fantasy. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:41, 2 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thank you! - It didn't make it to the Main page because they argued that we can't run it on the First Sunday after Trinity because it was 11 Jun in 1724. - But Franz Kafka "made it", having died 100 years ago OTD, hence the story. I uploaded a few pics from the visit of Graham87. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:47, 3 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Today's story is about an extraordinary biography, Peter Demetz. - I uploaded a few more pics but leave the link, because there's a new one of Graham and his mother who liked it. The new ones include the rainiest so far. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:33, 5 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
The wallpaper behind that piano is exquisite. Would that your rain would come this way. That obelisk looking building in the rain makes me long for dark clouds. (Only for a day or two to cool it down. In general, sunny weather is my preference.) Demetz story is fascinating indeed. SusunW (talk) 18:50, 5 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
The "wallpaper" are frescoes from the 16th century. Come some day and see yourself. All tourists were taken to the place until they closed for renovation, and I somehow missed it reopening. It was Graham's idea who found that and many other treasures on the internet, and came all the way from Perth. - Did I miss a link to the EZB? They do guided tours, but less interesting when you are born blind. - Another interesting person: Alexander Lang. Wish we knew about the four important women in his life, not just Katja Paryla and Annette Reber. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:31, 6 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Someday I might. One never knows. East Germany is hard. I've written a couple of women from there and finding records was nigh on to impossible from here. SusunW (talk) 13:19, 7 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Today was a very struggling day. Barometric pressure off the charts. Little ability to work or focus. But at 16:15 the rain came. What joy! What wonderment. I still feel like I am on an airplane and the pressure in my ears is crazy, but it is cooler, my plants are happy and I am going out to just stand in the rain. SusunW (talk) 22:40, 11 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
And it's been lovely. Normal rainy season - about 17:00 each night rain rolls in for about an hour or two. That first day, temps dropped from 41 to 28 in the space of two hours. It's been 25 - 35 ever since. Love the photos, especially the poppies. Hall's story is interesting, thanks for sharing it. SusunW (talk) 14:07, 15 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
I love Bach! Lovely piece. How in the world did a nutria arrive in Germany? I've seen them, they are typically in South America, whereas here we have more Pacas and Agoutis. In Belize, "gibnut" (a paca) is known as the royal rat and is a delicacy. SusunW (talk) 17:47, 16 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thank you! - I couldn't talk to the animal which was busy grazing. - New pics of food and flowers come with the story of Noye's Fludde (premiered on 18 June), written by Brian Boulton. I nominated Éric Tappy because he died, and it needs support today! I nominated another women for GA in the Women in Green June run, - review welcome, and more noms planned. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:00, 18 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
We have a baby o'possum. It seems so odd to me to live in the middle of a major city and have 'possums, but the mother has apparently always lived in our gardening shed, and periodically she has a litter. My cats completely ignore the 'possums and iguanas in our yard; perhaps they figure they were there first. The one we've seen is adorable. Only about the size of my fist but his tail is twice as long as his body and his nose is pink. We call him Opie. I tried to take a picture of him last night climbing the window bars, but too much rain and glare. Love the flowers, foxglove and cornflower are not something we have here. SusunW (talk) 14:52, 19 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Would love to see Opie. (In German, Opi is what a child might say addressing a granddad.) - Thank you for improving article quality in June! - Today we have a centenarian story (documentation about it by Percy Adlon) and an article that had two sentences yesterday and was up for deletion, and needs a few more citations. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:52, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Today is a feast day for which Bach composed a chorale cantata in 1724 (and we had a DYK about it in 2012). Can't believe that Jodie Devos had to die, - don't miss her video from the Opéra-Comique at the end, - story to come. The weekend brought plenty of music sung and listened to, and some of it is reflected in the last two stories! + pics of good food with good company --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:18, 24 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
The rains coming is always a curse and a blessing. It breaks the heat, yay, but then one discovers all the leaks where the heat had baked the impermeable membrane on the roof to the point of flaking off, which cannot be fixed until it stops raining again. So for the last 2 days, we've had no internet, intermittent power, a game of moving pots. I am very behind, but all is well. SusunW (talk) 14:37, 25 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, and please don't feel pressure to respond! - The image in my DYK story is what I happened to see from my seat in a performance before the festival (with Anna Netrebko in the title role but sold out of course, and the other was possibly the icier Principessa anyway). I recommend the trailer video, with various scenes to the end of the music that Puccini was able to finish before he died in 1924. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:53, 25 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Interesting piece. Never heard of him or Alma. Thanks for helping me to learn something. All the blue flowers are gorgeous. Battening down the hatches. Early hurricane season taking off. We expect landfall perhaps on Friday. SusunW (talk) 14:45, 1 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thank you - such an unusual piece, treating Gregorian chant just like the chorales. - 3 July is the birthday of Leoš Janáček, and I'm happy I had a meaningful DYK in 2021 which was about a woman ;) - It's also the birthday of Franz Kafka, and I uploaded pics from his family's album seen in Berlin. Proud to have had 2 women in green in June, and the third nom is in progress. - Yesterday, I found an abundance of chanterelles in our forest, enough to select some day by day, - never seen anything like it here in decades, - pics to come. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:54, 3 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Me, I'm not on much right now. Beryl's trajectory is changing daily. First report was it would hit south of Campeche. Yesterday, closer to Mérida. Today between the two. Trying to prepare for the worst, and hoping for the best. Friends in Barbados say it was really, really bad. A few more things to prepare today and then just wait it out. Friday will tell the tale. SusunW (talk) 14:30, 3 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
After all the preparations and stress, it ended up being just a soft gentle rain here. We were very fortunate, as so much damage occurred in the Caribbean and is occurring in Texas. That said, while we didn't lose power or internet during the crisis, we lost internet from Sunday through Monday, so once again, I am very behind in my work. I'll try to read through your links. SusunW (talk) 15:18, 9 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
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