Life: Idiotropic

Stereotypes be what they may, it's always good to see one broken - to see the sometimes overly serious Germans here play just a little. Karneval's coming soon, so this morning I awoke to the sound of drumming coming from the church. This afternoon I saw a slow but steady trickle of people walking home with instruments, swords, or costumes. A louder round of drumming brought me back to my window to see this group assembled near our house - just talking on a nice afternoon. The drums started when they saw their friend walk near. He played it up, pulling his sword ceremoniously, then bowing to one side, then the other, tipping his hat, returning his sword, and walking away. They drummed "Happy Birthday" after that. It was cute and fun to see the locals just being silly.

The bird is another local - one that kept returning to our empty field today. We saw him flying circles overhead and saw him return about 6 times.

Which brings me to Luci's most recent bit of wisdom, something she said to me after completing her drawing of a bald eagle in an apple tree.