Life through a macro lens
Foliagus niceus
Butterfly Wingclipoffius
The Probablykilluifuateit mushroom
The definitelykilluifuatit mushroom
2 bees. (Or not 2 bees)
The impressively named Coneubelieveitnoadjectivestodescribeit
That rarest of creatures Wifesansrucksackus
The Marienberg Abbey, Schlinig, Italy
Mrs P asks the Big Man how many people live in the Abbey
Mrs P confessing that she now knows how many people live in the Abbey
How many?
Happiness is a flat place to pitch Gandalf ...
Wednesday 28th AugustWhen life slows you down, for whatever reason, and the journey focuses more on the minutiae of every step than on the summit in the distance, the focus of your eye readjusts and is drawn to such things as the beauty in a leaf.The delicacy of a butterfly (or maybe a moth? Who can tell?)The myriad, and potentially poisonous, mushrooms.Even the insects at work......and other things for which I have run out of adjectives...The walk on which we found all this carefully annotated and taxonomically accurate (yeah, right!) flora started and finished at this place...The Marienberg Abbey is a Benedictine Abbey founded in the 12th Century.(Guess how many people live here. Go on, guess. You'll never guess)The whole place has undergone a massive renovation project that started in 2015 and continues today. I'd guess in the tens of millions of Euros and maybe as much as a hundred million.(Did you guess yet? Go on, you know you want to.) It is a HUGE and very impressive buildingIt houses a new library containing 135,000 titles. It also has a very nice coffee shop with the poshest Art Deco tea spoons I have ever considered stealing (Heaven forfend!)And you'll never guess how many monks live there...Ok, I'll tell you............11.That's 'eleven!' One more than 10. One less than 12. I say this simply to emphasise that I have not missed out a digit or two. Eleven monks.That's 12,272 books each! (And about the same number of rooms. Each!)They should sell up. They'd make Russian Oligarchs look positively destitute.But, back to the small, pleasures in life.
...and a cold beer shared with Mrs PSee you tomorrow...