A New Painting and a German Haircut

Hello Everybody,


I'm still looking at my painting and doing a small bit of tweaking, but I'm thinking now of the next one..... It's been interesting for myself to log the progress of my Wilbur painting - it's the first time I've ever broken a painting down into all the different stages and see how it develops. I'm also happy with introducing a more of a 'Fantasy' element than I normally would. Has this come from living here in this Ancient River Valley with all the history? I can't really say, but I think that I'll stay with it for the next painting too...
So what to paint next?
Wilbur in Winter?
Perhaps a painting with a Swan?
Or maybe a painting with Wilbur and a Swan in Winter?
There are endless possibilities....
Which brings me to my new haircut.
I had my little piccie of what I wanted it to look like. I had my phrasebook - 'Hier etwas kürzer, bitte.' I had my fingers crossed. 
But the hairdresser did a Very Good Job. She cut it how I wanted it to be, even though the picture wasn't quite what I really wanted and my phrasebook didn't have nearly enough phrases.... So that was meself in a good mood anyhow. It was also heartening not having enough vocabulary to discuss what I'm doing on Saturday Night and whether I've bought all me Christmas Presents Yet....
After all that, we went across the way to Globus Hypermarket to get the deposit back on our plastic mineral water bottles. They've got this great machine where you put in the empties, it reads the barcodes, then prints you out a slip which you can exchange FOR CASH. This is a wonderful thing and the machine reminds me of something you might come across in Las Vegas. 
Only you have to drink a lot of water first.


I must find a little picture for this post. Can't have a blog without a picture. Me new painting is in me head (don't want to go there), me finished painting you saw yesterday evening. So..... what can I find? Even though I said that it's quietish here in Ediger-Eller at the moment, the grapes are being picked and there's a yeasty smell along the old streets. But The Grape Picking is not that noticeable really - people get on with their work and drive tractors up and down the roads and that's about all you'd see unless you were in the midst of it... So here's to you and the wine of tomorrow....

They've progressed a bit since I took this photo, but you get the idea.

So.

Tschüss!