My honorary granddaughter sends me an art card every week, and when she was in Berlin recently to run the marathon, she visited museums, including the museum of early musical instruments. So these cards have started arriving.
Here's a wooden flute, the head of a bass viol, the ancestor of today's double bass, a c clarinet and a trumpet, all dating from the sixteenth century.
These are instruments which played my favorite early music, very exciting to see. I hope they get played now and then, because they need handling and the wind instruments need warm air passing through them, to stay alive.
Yesterday was a rainy cool day, just right for comfort food, here tuna/cannellini bean fritters, with chili pepper, long pepper, and roast potatoes, sprig of Thai basil for a bit of color, ketchup because I could.
And comic relief from Free cycle
And Halloween is almost upon us complete with costumes
Happy day, everyone, don't acquire elephants that you'll only have to store. But dress as one for Halloween, maybe.
