Can anyone guess what this is? No cheating by Googling the Latin
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One of my best friends just told me that her mother’s side of the family is from Poland, but she doesn’t know where. She’s so different from me - I would hunt down the information somehow, but she doesn’t seem to be interested.
My mom was born in Danzig too! She is a German citizen born in 1938 when it was a free city.
The family fled and lived as refugees in a barn loft in a tiny village in eastern Germany during the war and lost basically all of their belongings and property.
I went with my mom back to Gdansk and eastern Germany when it opened back up. Mom called it her “Roots Tour”. It was very emotional.
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Dear wife is 50% Polish, and we saw a TV series a few years back called Flavor of Poland where a Polish-American ‘actress’ (can’t find anything else she’s done, but I digress) would visit a city or area in Poland, then go into her kitchen and recreate/put her spin on the foods she tried in the episode. It floored us how lovely Poland looked.
We seriously considered visiting Poland, as you say, things are quite cheap there. We saw a 9 day tour with a reputable company for only $2K per person.
Then the war broke out in the nation right next door…so we’re now leery of traveling so close to a war zone.
I didn’t hesitate to visit Poland because my son felt comfortable with the situation. At one point, I was 25 miles from the border with Russia.
That series sounds interesting!
Flavor of Poland pops up occasionally on one of the PBS stations, like PBS World or PBS World. Our DVR is set to save it whenever it pops up. The shoe also has a website where episodes might be available. The host is Alexandra August.
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ETA I ordered the canvas & will scour 2nd hand shops for a frame!
This is so fun! I stumbled on a pic I took through a window, our D was about 12, she’s chilling in the hot tub, reading a book (as a voracious reader she always(!) had/has a book being read) - I shared the photo with my love & bff (and D of course).
Bff said he thought it looked like a European master painting. (You can barely make out my reflection in the window, plus the colors, give it a very old world feel) -
The more I looked at it, the more it felt Dutch Renaissance -
This morning bff sent the pic in a gilded frame and now I want to print the photo on canvas and frame it in an ornate frame!
To quote bff: Girl with a pearl earring got nothing on girl with book in the bath.
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Had three gorgeous days last week in Acadia National Park. Theme for this year’s visit seems to have been “birds”.
While on the trail around Jordan Pond we often see/hear loons out in the middle of the pond. This year we had a loon right at the edge of the shore, no more than 6 feet away from us–didn’t seem to mind the foot traffic at all (I wish we could see its red eye in this photo, the shade was a challenge) The tag on one of its legs is visible:
On Little Long Pond we found this adorable canada goose family, with 3 goslings!
On to Bubble Pond, where there was a pair of common mergansers. Mom posed quite willingly, Dad proved to be elusive, staying far from shore:
Finally back at the cottage that we rent on Salisbury Cove, there was what we THINK is a greater yellowlegs poking around a tidal pool:
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That’s something special!
Who’s the artist?
Not sure if I should post this here or in the Coincidences thread lol!
If it’s the same artist, it’s Faig Ahmed
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When we visited Old Town in Warsaw, we saw this couple being photographed for awhile. I kept watching and got this shot.
Then I took this photo, because I thought it was funny to capture a bride and a panda in the same frame.
Old Town is gorgeous. It was totally destroyed during WWII. They rebuilt it as closely to the original as possible. So it’s kind of surreal - buildings that look old and new at the same time. Warsaw received no foreign aid at all. Citizens contributed to a rebuilding fund and there was also a 0.5% tax on wages. Every able-bodied person, even school kids, pitched in to help with the labor. It’s really amazing what they were able to do.
We went into this church (that’s my DIL walking up the steps). We got to see a Catholic mass in progress.
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Cadillac Ranch?
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