Got to see the women’s gold medal curling match SUI - SWE (5:6) this morning. Now watching the 2026 Winter Olympics closing ceremonies.
Heard a v formation of geese flying over with the living room window open. Letting in some fresh air after an afternoon out (trip to a café in Wedding) in the mild temperatures on the first days after the long, bitter cold - migrating birds are making use of the warmer (yet rainy) weather as well.
Trying out Unread RSS reader on the iPad via @brentsimmons
Watched the Olympics men’s curling final GBR - CAN (6:9) , one more match tomorrow morning - the women’s final
Went to another Berlinale showing and saw: La Face Cachée de la Terre The Hidden Face of the Earth - a moving film about the meaning of images when a photographer is going blind🍿
Went to the Berlinale to watch the screening of the competition film Rosebush Pruning 🍿
Day off after the trip, got up early then went back to sleep. Lounging around now, going to go out somewhere later…
Winding down after a weekend train trip to Bremen and Oldenburg for an art exhibition tour of 3 museums: Alberto Giacometti “Das Maß der Welt“ on its last weekend, Paula Modersohn-Becker “Becoming Paula” (150 years exhibition), Horst Janssen “Janssen in Farbe“, Christoph Niemann “Randnotizen” 🗺️🎨
Rainy day, thought I’d be able to walk home in the mild temps, but it was too wet so took the tram. Now back out to the rain for a grocery store run after the 2nd third in GER - DEN (3:1) men’s ice hockey game (other Olympics seen today were women’s snowboard half pipe and women’s ice skating 5000m)
Watched Olympics double luge, and more curling, men‘s CAN - GER (7:6) - what has turned out to be my favorite sport these winter games
I can hear so many birds chirping in the neighboring courtyards when I peek my head out the windows, and I’ve seen quite a few by us. The upstairs neighbors are putting out birdseed again, so I need to keep an eye out for the wood pigeons when the cat’s on the balcony.
Did a fun figure drawing workshop this evening - hoping it’s the spark to get me back into regular sketching again…
Had a look at one of my favorite trees in the neighborhood, my red leaf tree, on a long, brisk walk at dusk - the first big stretch of the legs and hips (!) in weeks
