The Changing Seasons – Spring Edition

First of all: I want to apologize to all of you for staying away from blogging without even announcing or explaining it for so long. I had – what I now know in hindsight – what you might call a digital burnout. All of a sudden I felt I had to pull my digital plug

A Pair of Cardinals

    July is the official World Watercolor month, founded by my awesome friend Charlie from over at Doodlewash! Anyone can join in and celebrate art by simply tagging any art that uses watercolor (or gouache) with #WorldWatercolorMonth. 31 days artists from all over the world come together to paint the world with beautiful watercolors

Two Blog Awards and a Duckling

    I´m completely thrilled to have been nominated again for two wonderful Blog Awards! The first one is The Blogger Recognition Award for which I have to thank Cathi from OVER THE HILL on the YELLOW BRICK ROAD! 🙂 Please check out her wonderful blog, and I promise you that you will fall in

Isidor´s Eagle

    Having lately noticed that eagles are the national birds of many countries (including my own with its Golden Eagle), I thought it was time to give it a try and paint one. In this post however, I want to draw attention to a maybe less known species of eagles, the Isidor´s Eagle, also

A Surprising Encounter

    Over 3.5 million people and a few thousand foxes live in Berlin, and supposedly the latter can be seen just about everywhere but so far I only ever saw one single fox. It was a couple of years back when I was on my way back home after a late course at uni.

The Story of an Apple

  I ate an apple the other day… 🙂  

Things I Bought Today

  Not long ago, when I posted about my Summer Companions, my dear friend Sarah (no, I´m not talking of myself in the third person…yet 😉 ) from over at Travels with Choppy very perceptively mentioned in response to my comment that I take my camera nearly always with me except when I shop for

Summer Companions

  I can feel that summer is coming to an end here in the northern hemisphere. It seems to come earlier each year and instead of gently drifting of to autumn it will be winter all of a sudden, at least that´s what happened in the last years and I don´t have reason to believe

Parlez-vous français?

  Do you speak French? Or are you planning to learn it? I´ve been on and off the train “Learning French” for the past two years – well, more off than on, if I´m honest. 😉 And to be even more honest with you: I was quite fed up with myself for not already being

It´s coming!

  Prepare yourselves for an unrivaled experience! This one has it all – mystery, love and… crime?? 😉 The next chapter of My Slightly Different Count Dracula is going to be published this weekend with a lovely surprise coming your way… and for those of you who can´t wait that long, watch the following! 🙂