Scribblings with Green Chalk

I didn’t give it much thought but, somehow, from the very start, I’ve chosen as headers pictures of places that are in some way or other significant for me. The pictures give me a sense of place I cannot otherwise afford. I hope to keep moving in the coming years, because I don’t think that at this point in time I could honestly decide that I want to stay somewhere for good. However, there obviously are places that mean more than others and that could probably hold me for longer. I sometimes take pictures in a moment when I’m really happy about being in that particular place in the world. And these pictures make it to the header.

The first photo was from my first visit to Ithaca, NY. Winter trees in one of the gorges.

So was the second. Same place, only in the middle of summer.

Then came a third Ithaca photo, taken in a rented cabin. The cats playing in the clothes were the owners’.

For a few hours during Nacht der Wissenschaft, I put up a snapshot of a flagpole from my trip to NYC in August 2007. I took it down, because national flags make me uncomfortable.

A view of Heidelberg (where I currently live) from the castle. It’s the first time I’ve used a picture taken by a friend, not one of my own. (Autumn and beginning of winter 2007)

January 2008: I’m letting some sun in, tired by the winter gloom. View of Alte Brücke from the Heidelberg castle.

mid-January 2008: I need a non-place. A meadow. Maybe two. Heather reminds me of summer and of how, as a teenager, I read Wuthering Heights in bed.

February 2008: Florida trees.

April 2008: A jetty under water.

May 2008: Water in the Ichetucknee river.

July 2008: Chabry. Skansen w Lednogórze, chyba 27 czerwca.