This week I saw/DWZI...

... St. Michael. Een jaar geleden schreef  ik over het fenomeen dat ik eind september overal Michael of Joris en de draak tegenkwam. Tenminste op gevelstenen en schilderijen en dergelijke. Een onvermoede antroposofische erfenis noemde ik dat.  Het is weer zover! Bovendien schijnt er een kleine Michielszomer aan te komen. Zo heet dat klaarblijkelijk. Beter bekend onder de naam luiewijvenzomer of nazomer. Geniet ervan. De linkertekening maakte ik, de rechter Casper, de beroerde foto's zijn ook van mijn hand.

 ...St. Michael. A year ago I wrote about the phenomenon of me seeing St. Micheal or his counterpart George fighting the dragon everywhere around me, in late september. An unexpected Waldorf heritage I called it. It's happening again. I've just learned that a Micheal's summer is what  Americans refer to as an Indian summer. And according to the weather forcast we're about to have one. At least for a week or so. I made the drawing on the left and Casper the one on the right, and I have to admit I made the poor pictures as well.

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Drawing

It has become a habit, or a tradition as you wish, to make a drawing for our children's birthdays. There's nothing more in the world Valentijn would have loved more to get for his birthday than a cat. Poor kid, having Sneezy for a mother, he has to do with a paper one. Drawn with love, I must add. The idea was to draw a somewhat simplified cat. I'm afraid this one is aiming to much to look like a real one. I also did a linocut.

Tomorrow is the big day. We'll be at the soccer pitch first, to see Valentijn and his team become champion and after that we'll have his friends over for his birthday party. The boys talked about it all week, making assumptions about who's the mole. They are very excited and we are too, off course!

Laughing lemon meringue pie

It's my husband's birthday today. Although it will be Sunday before we have everyone over, I thought it would be a nice gesture to make his favorite pie for dessert. It's a lemon meringue pie. With a laughing lemon in it..

Last year for his birthday, I made a drawing from him, from the back. This year I made a portrait upfront from myself. Although I like to be somewhat anonymous, I post a little picture of it. In the end, this blog intended to be a journal of the things I make. (And I happen to make a pretty good lemon meringue pie...)