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perjantai 28. toukokuuta 2021

What's new in the Artá market?

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Tuesdays in Artá: mercat.

Finnisch für Anfänger: TORIPÄIVÄ = Markttag / market day


NEW: Fast food!


NEW: even more fast food!


NEW: local Kalorienbomben!


NEW: despite corona the streets are full of people!


NEW: like it used to be, on Tuesdays, with masks today.


NEW: Art Gallery Studio25. 


NEW: Mrs Sturm's print works in the gallery.


Not new: the best cortado in town. Geheimtipp. 
Cafe Almudaina.

And now the boring part.


In our garden the acca tree has started to blossom.


As well as Buddha's Hand lemon tree. 


Time to cut down the daisies!

Finnisch für Anfänger:

PÄIVÄNKAKKARA = Mararite / daisy


 

tiistai 18. toukokuuta 2021

May wonders

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Boys and girls, how wonderful it is to ...


... enjoy early dinner in a restaurant, outside, watching people.
How simple is that then.
But now during corona times, that is not possible in Germany.
In Spain, yes.


And the Spanish colours!


May is such a wonderful month.
Check those crazy Margarethas, they are almost as tall as I am!


Spaniards consider this borage / Borretsch as a weed ...
In Germany it is used in the Grüne Sosse in Frankfurt,
and it is also called Gurkenkraut.
The flowers make such a cool decoration on salads.



How amazing is this then?
This snake was ... yes ... killed last autumn.
And yes, it is allowed to kill these ones as they are
originally not from Mallorca.
Well, we did nor bury him but left him on a stone wall.
Hello, nature fellas have done their best, but even if the
weather on the island in the winter season is very humid,
this guy just dried! 


I guess I have to frame it.


These opuntias are such fabulous foto objects.

Finnisch für Anfänger:

OPUNTIA = Opuntie / opuntia



Another iPhone shot with the portrait modus.
Check the glass!


Yes, it also enjoyable to sip cocktails at the seaside.
Cala Ratjada harbour.


Acca, the first flowers!

maanantai 23. marraskuuta 2020

Gray November?

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This week I have three round birthdays in my calendar!

Congrats to all:

how funny to turn 20 in the year 20 - Annie!
Vollie maybe celebrates his 60th with his family.
It kind is a bit sad to turn 50 in the corona year,
no party, no celebration - but Kirrie will have some action
on her round day, for sure. Girls just wanna have fun. 


I tell you, no parties, no fun in Germany.
Well, hardly anywhere in the world this year.

So let's enjoy the nature.
Here some boring garden pics.


Take me home, country road ... tra la la la laa.


My pomelos are getting ripe.


A rose with a fly. Many flies in the house.


This year finally testing these, let's see what happens in winter.


My "mano de Buddha" is also changing colour,
meaning it's ripening as well.

Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis, or the fingered citron,  is an unusually 
shaped citron variety whose fruit is segmented into finger-like sections, 
resembling those seen on representations of Buddha. (Wiki)


Every now and then mushrooms.


Pomegranate explosion!


Nispero - Mispelchen.
Eriobotrya japonica
Flowers now, fruit to be enjoyed in April.


The flowers of this strawberry bush remind me of lingonberry flowers.


This climbing beauty is not really liked here as it takes over everything.


Remember these flowers from my May postings?


It's the Acca tree.
Acca sellowiana


Now we get the fruit!


I like it, the structure is similar to a pear and the taste?
Dunno. But it tastes good.
Wikipedia has more information:

The fruit, known as feijoa maturing in autumn, is green, ellipsoid, and 
about the size of a chicken egg. It has a sweet, aromatic flavour, which
 tastes like pineapple, apple, and mint. The flesh is juicy and is divided into a 
clear, gelatinous seed pulp and a firmer, slightly granular, opaque flesh nearer 
the skin. The fruit falls to the ground when ripe and at its fullest flavour, 
but it may be picked from the tree prior to falling to prevent bruising.


Kunst.
Or; what is left over in a salad bowl .
Was a nice vinaigrette with herbs from our garden.