The topic of week 37 in Sari’s photo Projekt 52:
A walk in the night
“Of course” also a photo – well, actually two – from Montreux (the one from last week about “light and shadow” was from my hotel room, by the way):
A selection of 33 34 of my photos from the Freddie Mercury Montreux Memorial Day 2008 is now online on its gallery page – mostly daytime and sunset photos, for I didn’t want to lug my big camera during the events and concerts, and the small pocket camera can’t cope well with low-light situation…
» See all 34 photos in the gallery!
The official site will surely display their own photos soon, too.
Before we start with the photos, two web finds from my Montreux trip:
By the way, the hotel – the Eden Palace – also offered dozens of movies and music albums for free, accessible via the TV that was extensively equipped for such hotel use (and even greeted me by name1 when I first entered my room) – however, it was a relatively small CRT model, no flat screen.
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To commemorate Freddie
We didn’t have much time
Rock4 and Queenie
Were at the best pl—
Um, no, gotta stop here, because the school auditorium of the CESSEV was, although quite suitable for the acapella concert by Rock4, certainly not the best place around. The Ned, though, a music club in an old factory basement or something like that, wasn’t a a bad place for a Queen cover band rock concert (and even for the shorter quasi-classical before that).
(And nothing burned to the ground, hence no smoke on the water.)
Aaaalright, now that I’m back home, I can admit that I was on holiday for the past few days (don’t want to tell the dear burglars where an apartment is unguarded); at the Freddie Mercury Montreux Memorial Day in, guessed it?, Montreux. Thanks to free Internet access included in the hotel price and occasionally some time, I wasn’t completely cut off from the blogosphere, though not as active as usually.
So in the next days, there’s a little flood of photos, thematically sorted. 
But I rather held back with photographing things, actually.1
Well, that’s it for today…
That (in German) is the subtitle of a German “Witch Calendar” for 2009 (publisher: Moewig-Verlag) from a certain Anthea (not shown here on the right) that I recently bought in order to have some material… Don’t worry, I won’t inundate you in 2009 every day with that (wouldn’t work anyway since Friday to Sunday have to share a single sheet)1 – I rather thought of a “Best Of” (or rather “Worst Of”) every 1-3 weeks.
For every day (or, as mentioned, for every weekend that seems to contain the Friday, too, for witches2) there is a quote or proverb and three sections:
Well, they had to fill the approximately 250 sheets somehow… always the same drawings (a horoscope scribbling, a cauldron being stirred, and a witch on a broom; first on the left, then on the right) use up some additional space, too. “Witchcraft is cult!”, as the back side says, so there will probably be enough buyers for this – rather cheaply produced, I think – calendar (it was worth the 5€ to me all the same), and not just those that want to poke fun at it or criticize such “trivialities”…
(Alternatively, by the way, the same publisher also offers moon, moon-astro, angel, guardian angel and more calendars, as well as sudoku or cooking calendars.)
Example for the “witch pharmacy”:
Put scratching pullovers and sweaters briefly in the freezer. After that, wearing them is much more comfortable!
What ancient knowledge! About freezers!! That can only come from a witch’s pharmacy!
Well then,
Today, think dearly of those people from whom you have learned something essential for your life.
(From the “witch year” section for 15 Sep. Why 15 Sep? Well, who knows…)
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