march is always a month that leaves me in a waiting position. there is rarely anything to do in march, and the transitioning of winter into spring also hasn't started yet. it's kind of a bleak month to me. it's the only month where i rarely shoot photos and i'm craving for spring already, being fed up with winter.
morning moments.
the sun sometimes puts funny light apparitions on my walls.
the ringkirche ( ring church ). just a random take while i was on errands in the town.
my little money tree is happily growing bigger and bigger!
this march i was able to witness the penumbral sun eclipse, quite extraordinary happening it was, but i guess it will never compare to the total eclipse in 1999 - i remember that one clearly, because it happened at a time when our time was on the cusp of a new millenium and i remember all the apocalypse theories that surrounded it. the event itself was great - we made vacations in hungary and were by the lake balaton when it happened. just minutes before the sun disappeared every bird on earth was singing a song and then suddenly it was the biggest silence i have ever heard. every human being stopped breathing for a minute or two. it was great. when the sun returned again people fell into each others arms, crying over the fact that the apocalypse did not happen, the world didn't end and they were happy about it. human beings are such credent creatures.
these pictures were the most decent ones of all, i shot them through my window so they appear as quadruple suns :)
another highlight of my month was a concert. herman van veen gave a special birthday concert in wiesbaden, he had just turned 70 a few days prior. and what a splendid concert it was. he gave multiple encores and played very old songs and it was just perfect. his music makes me cry and laugh at the same time. it was also my first concert at the wiesbaden kurhaus - a prestigious neoclassical building from the early 1900s. the concert hall was really pompous - but in a good way - art nouveau elements were all over the hall and it pleased my eyes so much.
i shot this picture at the end of the concert, most visitors were already gone and only the hard core of van veen followers were present and a few moments later he would reappear for the last time that evening, singing 'kleiner fratz'.
it was a beautiful concert, very melancholic and devoted to herman van veen's recently passed companion erik van der wurff. his piano was not used throughout the entire concert.
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