A Postcard A Day -Friday 29 March 2024 - Friday Smiles

 Hello lovely peeps,

Today is Good Friday, just a few days before Easter. In Spain Holy Week (this week) is the most important holiday on the calendar. Most people have the week off and the children don't go to school for more than a week. The shops are shut from today onwards. It's busy on the roads as people are traveling to their holiday destination. There have been religious processions everywhere. I'm sure Kate will be showing some photos. Me, I'm staying in. The weather is not very nice and I'm looking forward to writing my blog and commenting, or working on my jigsaw puzzle, or cooking something nice.

Let's turn to blogging and here is my postcard for this week. It doesn't seem to be very interesting, but here we go:

It comes from Germany and it is a black and white photo by the photographer Paul Wolff (1876-1947).

I know Paul Wolff (or I thought I did) and I love his photos, always full of life. He was called 'the man behind the Leica' and could be found on the Côte Azur or the French Riviera, so I couldn't quite believe this was a photo by Paul Wolff. The one I know was born in 1887 and died in 1951. 

But this fellow, Paul Heinrich Oscar Wolff is a different kettle of fish (i.e. a different photographer). I couldn't find much info about him and I only know he was born Sobieszów, modern day Poland, but at the time it was probably German. Iris might know. And Paul Wolff worked and died in Zschieren (Dresden in the DDR). 

Dresden, View of the Reich Garden at the Great Garden with the Kugelhaus. Photo taken after 1936, photography by Paul Wolff.

State Office for Monument Preservation

I don't know what the tall monument is in the photo but the 'Kugelhaus', which is barely visible on the right hand side in the photo, looks like this:

The Kugelhaus. Built by Peter Birkenholz in 1928 and located in the große garten in Dresden, this five-storey sphere was home to a series of rooms and a restaurant. It was created for the exhibition die Jahresschau deutscher Arbeit , Die Technische Stadt the annual showcase for German products. (Exhibition of German work)

Prime Minister Max Heldt in front of the Kugelhaus during the opening of the Annual Show of German Work 1928. (The tall monument is visible in the background).

Today is Friday Smiles and I have not come up with a single smile yet! Well, the stamp will make you smile:

On the right Mickey Mouse features with his girl friend Minnie and many other Disney characters in this 2023 stamp. I can't believe Mickey is 100 years old!

What have I been doing? Well, I had a birthday on Saturday. (photos on my Tuesday blogpost) and on Sunday we had a church fellowship meal as some people from our sister church in Algeciras were visiting.

Our visitors had done a presentation of the mission work they were doing among the Moroccan population of their town.

There was lots of lovely food.

The tables are beginning to fill up.

On Tuesday my friends came to lunch. I had made some cheese fundue although I didn't have the right gear, we improvised.

I had broccoli to dip and quite a few other side dishes so it turned out really nice.

We've had some torrential rains this week. My rain gage was full!

Unfortunately it was during the Calima (dust storm from the Sahara) and everything turned brown. The plastic chairs on my patio:

My chickens are doing well. The other day one of them laid a huge egg:

Much bigger than the others. Ouch! I shall eat it at Easter.

That's me done for today. Lets go visit Annie at A Stitch In Time.

Of course there will be some funnies at the end. But for now, take care.

Keep smiling,

Hugs,

Lisca