
Low Backlight

In the absence of leaves, the structure of the old gradation house becomes well visible.
The grave of a young man from Ukraine, most probably a soldier, on the graveyard of Bad Reichenhall.
The title is a pointer: Eliot Weinberger’s wonderful piece in the ‘London Review of Books’ with that title starts as such: They came from Florida, from Fox News and Fox Business, square-jawed men and women with big hair and collagen lips. They came from professional football and World Wrestling Entertainment. They came from daytime talk shows…
Happy New Year to you, dear readers! The prospects of the new year are probably as undecipherable as this graffiti. My guess is that this might read “lemons”, but then, making lemonade is an effective means to deal with that. Cheers!
A statue of Ägidius or St. Giles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Giles) in front of a church dedicated to him.
I wish all of you a Merry Christmas / Seasons Greetings. In these unmerry times it is definitely hard to stay full of hope, but then, this scenery reminded me that hope is probably more like a process – and in this way a permanent workzone. So let us all hope that the sensible persons…