In the past, I would have never thought I would sing in German in Texas. I learned the song last year.. Years ago, I sang folk songs in quite a few European languages including German but I thought it was all a past matter. In the Hill Country, due to history of the land, German is in use again.
Pictures from our September walks in the area.
Last year, during the October Fest, I asked one of the Czech bands who played there, to sing this song. Well, they did not know it. Maybe because it is actually a Slovak song. However, I had learned it from Czech friends, during one of the EU educational projects I was part of.
Tancuj, Tancuj means Dance, Dance.
More pictures from the Hill Country - taken in September 2020.
Since this year's Christmas has been stripped from most of the traditional seasonal celebrations, I enjoy looking at the pictures taken in December 2019, recollecting the busy and joyful time - the Christmas parade, church walk, our meeting with Santa, and the old-time "pioneers" at the Rangers' Center.
The landscape of the Hill Country always amazes me with its beauty. It all makes me sing in various languages. :-) Lorelei is a German folk song. Since most of the Hill Country pioneers were of German/Prussian descent, singing in German here has its reasons.
Christmas is different this year. No usual Christmas events. That is why I came back to the photos taken last year. The display of nativity Scenes took place in a local church in December 2019.
This is my version of the song "Ja, mein(e) Liebe Tochter". Related to walking and being alone. Nobody really wants the latter, not for a long time at least. Well, 2020 has been a weird yera, it even has made me sing solo in public. I have not done it since I was 15 but then, it was totally different - I sang at the all school gathering with the music teacher's piano accompaniment + the school choir support.
The pictures from our walk on 1 September 2020.
The song
Mom, may I go for a walk?
Yes, my beloved/dear daughter.
Mom, may I romance?
Yes, my beloved/dear daughter.
Mom, mom of mine, nobody wants to be all alone.
Mom, may I go for a walk?
Yes, my beloved daughter.
During our walks we met not only deer. However, they appeared most often. We also happened to have quite a lot of other companions.
It has become cold, the winter weather came quite early. On chilly days it is nice to recall our summertime walks. Here in another slideshow from August.
In some previous posts I included slideshows made with the PhotoPeach online tools. Sadly, the service is going to be suspended/closed in January 2021, and those slides won't be available anymore.
Recently, the temperature dropped dramatically and summer turned suddenly into winter. No walking conditions at all. It is think of warmer/much hotter days in August when we could enjoy our outside activity.
We have many outside buddies whom we meet while we walk - wildlife (including jackrabbits, deer, squirrels, armadillos, vultures, other birds, and more), farm-life (longhorns, cowies, sheepies, jackasses, hens, goats, roosters) and somebody else's pets (e.g. doggies, cats, llamas, ostriches). There was even a bison and a zebra. Some of the buddies you can see in the slideshow below.
The sky was so pretty on that day.
More pictures in the slideshow
And a short video - the deer were quite far from us.
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| Cowie had her photo session too. |
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| wild turkey here |
